Holocaust Education

Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women During the Holocaust
Edited by Sonja M. Hedgepeth and Rochelle G. Saidel

The first book in English to specifically address the sexual violation of Jewish women during the Holocaust

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND
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Using testimonies, Nazi documents, memoirs, and artistic representations, this volume broadens and deepens comprehension of Jewish women’s experiences of rape and other forms of sexual violence during the Holocaust. The book goes beyond previous studies, and challenges claims that Jewish women were not sexually violated during the Holocaust.

This anthology by an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars addresses topics such as rape, forced prostitution, assaults on childbearing, artistic representations of sexual violence, and
psychological insights into survivor trauma. These subjects have been relegated to the edges or completely left out of Holocaust history, and this book aims to shift perceptions and promote new discourse.

“Challenging conventional interpretations by highlighting evidence that has been ignored, downplayed, or even silenced, Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust, a book as courageous as it is sensitive, significantly expands scholarship about the Holocaust’s extremity and intensifies imperatives to resist every kind of sexual abuse.”

John K. Roth, Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Founding Director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, Claremont McKenna College

Sonja M. Hedgepeth is professor of German at Middle Tennessee State University.
Rochelle G. Saidel is the author of The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp. She is the founder and executive director of Remember the Women Institute.

Published in cooperation with Remember the Women Institute, www.rememberwomen.org

Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust
Edited by Sonja M. Hedgepeth and Rochelle G. Saidel

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320 pp., 6 x 9"
Paper • 978-1-58465-905-1 • $35.00
Cloth • 978-1-58465-903-7 • $85.00

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