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Acknowledgments Sexual abuse of women during the Holocaust is not an easy subject to deal with, and we are grateful to the authors of the chapters in this book, as well as to the institutions, friends, and family who supported us in various ways as we struggled with it. All of the chapter authors have demonstrated unwavering commitment to this subject matter, and without their expert contributions , this book would not exist. Israeli author Nava Semel, feminist artist Judy Chicago, and Judy Cohen, a Holocaust survivor living in Toronto, also granted us interviews that provided insights for our work. The Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem gave us permission to reprint part of an article from their Hebrew journal, Theory and Criticism. We are also appreciative that the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, through Crispin Brooks, the Fortuno= Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University Library, through Joanne Rudof, and other archives gave our authors permission to use their testimonies. Both Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, d.c., served as important sources for bibliographic material. The Ghetto Fighters’ House in Israel provided us with the artwork for the cover. Our chapters came to us not only in English, but also in Hebrew, German, and Russian. We appreciate the help with translation that we received from Sonia Grober, Guilherme Ary Plonski, Barbara Schmutzler, and Elena Yurchenko. Daniel Wolk provided technical help that kept our computers going despite all odds. Along the way, the friends who o=ered valuable suggestions and sometimes a needed hug included Toby Back, Hanna Batista, Moshe Borger, Batya Brutin, Aviva Cantor, Karin Doerr, Scott Fraser, Allen Hibbard, Janet Higgins, Elizabeth Howitt, Aviva Klopper, Danby Meital, Nancy Ordway, Michael Rice, Je= F. Segall, Rachel Lulov Segall, Sarina Shamir, and Morris Wyszogrod. Our husbands, Guilherme Ary Plonski and Josef Vishengrad , encouraged us and lived with us through some dark moments as we grappled with the subject matter. We found it di

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