Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust

Contributors

Contributors dr. helga amesberger, a senior researcher at the Institute of Conflict Research in Vienna, is a social scientist focusing on Nation Socialist persecution of women and oral history. She is the co-author of Sexualisierte Gewalt in NSKonzentrationslagern (Sexualized violence in National Socialist concentration camps). dr. ellen ben-sefer is a senior lecturer at Schoenborn Academic College of Nursing in Tel Aviv, dividing her research time between nursing research and such Holocaust-related issues as children, women, and transit camps. She has also developed a model program in Australia and Israel for teaching nursing students about relevant Holocaust issues. kirsty chatwood, an independent researcher who studies questions of gender, sexuality, rape, and “resistance” in the context of genocide, has degrees from University of Alberta and University of Lethbridge in Canada. She is currently conducting research that includes studying the connections between sexual vulnerability and sex for survival in concentration camps. esther dror is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her writings include “Unraveling the Curtain of Silence : Leading to Redefinition of the Survival of Women during the Holocaust,” presented at the fourth Women and the Holocaust International Conference in Israel in 2007. dr. monika j. flaschka has a doctorate in Modern European History from Kent State University. Her dissertation, “Race, Rape and Gender in Nazi-Occupied Territories,” analyzes the intersection of gender and racial ideology in court-martial cases of rape, attempted rape, and child abuse committed by German soldiers and non-German men in the occupied territories. dr. eva fogelman, a psychologist in private practice in New York City, is co-director of Psychotherapy with Generations of the Holocaust and Related Traumas and Child Development Research, Training Institute for Mental Health. The author of Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust, she wrote and co-produced Breaking the Silence. dr. brigitte halbmayr, a social scientist and senior researcher at the Institute of Conflict Research in Vienna, focuses on racism, National Social- 294 | Contributors ism, the Holocaust, and gender. She co-authored Das Privileg der Unsichtbarkeit. Rassismus unter dem Blickwinkel von Weißsein und Dominanzkultur (The privilege of invisibility. Racism from the viewpoint of being white and of the dominant culture). dr. sonja m. hedgepeth is a full professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Middle Tennessee State University. In addition to German, she has taught extensively about the Holocaust, women’s issues , and world literature. She has published a book on Else Lasker-Schüler, as well as co-edited a book on this famous German-Jewish writer. dr. yvonne kozlovsky-golan teaches history and cinema at the University of Haifa’s Department of Cinema and Television, as well as at Sapir College of the Negev and Kibbutzim College in Israel. She researches the cinema ’s influence on viewers’ knowledge of history. She is the author of “Until You Are Dead”: The Death Penalty in the USA: History, Law, and Cinema. dr. s. lillian kremer, university distinguished professor, emerita, Kansas State University, is the author of Witness Through the Imagination: The Holocaust in Jewish American Literature and Women’s Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination, the editor of Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work, and the author of many critical essays. nomi levenkron, an Israeli attorney, headed the anti-tra