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Death Comes in Yellow
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Death Comes in Yellow" presents the history of one slave labor camp in order to shed light on all aspects of the slave labor camps established in Poland under German occupation. Hasag-Skarzysko was one of hundreds of camps scattered throughout occupied Poland. They were distinguished by size, the nationality of the prisoners, their location, the date of their establishment, and the authority in charge. The large number of labor camps reflected the German policy of exploiting the work forces of the occupied countries. These camps were part of a Europe-wide system of forced labor.
The first part of this volume reviews the external history of the camp. The second section, which studies the internal workings of the camp, is quite different in approach and includes an analysis of prisoner society and a moving description of the individual prisoner's struggle to survive.
12. Spanish and Catalan Women in Ravensbrück
Herrmann, Gina. "12. Spanish and Catalan Women in Ravensbrück". Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation, edited by Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020, pp. 237-257. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487532505-016
Herrmann, G. (2020). 12. Spanish and Catalan Women in Ravensbrück. In S. Brenneis & G. Herrmann (Ed.), Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation (pp. 237-257). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487532505-016
Herrmann, G. 2020. 12. Spanish and Catalan Women in Ravensbrück. In: Brenneis, S. and Herrmann, G. ed. Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 237-257. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487532505-016
Herrmann, Gina. "12. Spanish and Catalan Women in Ravensbrück" In Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation edited by Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann, 237-257. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487532505-016
Herrmann G. 12. Spanish and Catalan Women in Ravensbrück. In: Brenneis S, Herrmann G (ed.) Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press; 2020. p.237-257. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487532505-016
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Women’s Experiences During the Holocaust – New Books in Print
In 1999, for the first time in twenty-nine years of conferences, the Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches presented a plenary on women and the Holocaust. As co-chairs of this plenary, Dr. Myrna Goldenberg and I decided to feature recent scholarly books on the subject and to entitle the session “Women’s Holocaust History: Books in Print.” The occasion was historic beyond the fact that the subject was deemed important enough for a plenary, because, by early 1999, a core of “books in print” had made possible a session with such a title.
While some women’s diaries and first-hand accounts have been available in English since the late 1940s and 1950s,1 in 1998 there was an unprecedented crop of more analytical publications; and even more began to appear in 1999. Two out of the three finalists for the 1998 National Jewish Book Awards in the Holocaust category were about women and gender: Between Dignity and Despair by Marion A. Kaplan;2 and Women in the Holocaust, edited by Dalia Ofer and Lenore J. Weitzman. The Ofer-Weitzman book and another by Judith Tydor Baumel, Double Jeopardy: Gender and the Holocaust, are the focus of this review. However, I have also included brief comments about some of the other books on women and the Holocaust that appeared in 1998 and early 1999.
All the books discussed in this review address the specific gender-related questions that make the female experience different from that of the male — although some do so more forcefully than others. They explore whether gender affected women’s ability to struggle against the subhuman conditions of degradation, deprivation, terror, and even death, and how being female offered benefits yet also produced liabilities. Among the possible benefits were homemaking and nurturing skills that equipped women to form surrogate families, care for one another, and keep themselves and their living space
Reckoning with Sexual Violence, Sexual Terrorism, and Sexual Trauma in the Holocaust
Trigger Warning: Detailed Descriptions of Sexual Assault, Rape, Child Sexual Abuse, Antisemitism, White Supremacy, Forced Sterilization, Forced Abortion, Murder, Genocide, and Violence.
A note to readers: Each year the Jewish calendar marks the observance of Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). This day, signified on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, is commemorated by Jewish communities around the world and honors victims of the Holocaust by remembering the unfathomable crimes and atrocities committed. This blog specifically examines sexual violence and the many structured, systematic ways adults and children were abused and violated with the intent to torture, degrade, humiliate, and dehumanize them. It is crucial to understand the various ways rape and sexual violation are used as weapons of violence and oppression in the context of genocide, conflict, and war. Throughout this piece you will be seeing the terms "sexual violence" and "sexual terrorism" repeatedly. These terms are used to encompass the large umbrella of sexual violations experienced during this time period that range from harassment to rape, medical experimentation, and more. Although these facts and topics are devastating and difficult, it is important for us to recognize their relevance both historically and to the present day. In publishing this blog, it was important to our team to honor first-hand accounts and voices seeking to represent them, even at times when the details are graphic and disturbing. Still, we encourage readers to take care of themselves and honor their limits when engaging with such triggering and sensitive information.
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