Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust

Contents

Contents Foreword by Shulamit Reinharz ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction sonja m. hedgepeth and rochelle g. saidel 1 I. Aspects of Sexual Abuse 11 1. Death and the Maidens: “Prostitution,” Rape, and Sexual Slavery during World War II nomi levenkron 13 2. Sexualized Violence against Women during Nazi “Racial” Persecution brigitte halbmayr 29 3. Sexual Exploitation of Women in Nazi Concentration Camp Brothels robert sommer 45 4. Schillinger and the Dancer: Representing Agency and Sexual Violence in Holocaust Testimonies kirsty chatwood 61 II. Rape of Jewish Women 75 5. “Only Pretty Women Were Raped”: The E=ect of Sexual Violence on Gender Identities in the Concentration Camps monika j. flaschka 77 6. The Tragic Fate of Ukrainian Jewish Women under Nazi Occupation, 1941–1944 anatoly podolsky 94 7. The Rape of Jewish Women during the Holocaust helene j. sinnreich 108 8. Rape and Sexual Abuse in Hiding zoë waxman 124 viii | Contents III. Assaults on Motherhood 137 9. Reproduction under the Swastika: The Other Side of the Glorification of Motherhood helga amesberger 139 10. Forced Sterilization and Abortion as Sexual Abuse ellen ben-sefer 156 IV. Sexual Violence in Literature and Cinema 175 11. Sexual Abuse in Holocaust Literature: Memoir and Fiction s. lillian kremer 177 12. “Stoning the Messenger”: Yehiel Dinur’s House of Dolls and Piepel miryam sivan 200 13. Nava Semel’s And the Rat Laughed: A Tale of Sexual Violation sonja m. hedgepeth and rochelle g. saidel 217 14. “Public Property”: Sexual Abuse of Women and Girls in Cinematic Memory yvonne kozlovsky-golan 234 V. The Violated Self 253 15. Sexual Abuse of Jewish Women during and after the Holocaust: A Psychological Perspective eva fogelman 255 16. The Shame Is Always There esther dror and ruth linn 275 Contributors 293 Index 297 ...