ONLINE LAUNCH EVENT: Special issue of The Journal of Holocaust Research: "Gender-Based and Sexual Violence during the Holocaust."

November 11, 2024

Read the full issue here: The Journal of Holocaust Research: Vol 38, No 3-4

Participants:

• Guest editors: Dorota Glowacka, Regina Mühlhäuser
• JHR editor: Michal Aharony
• William Ross Jones, author of "'You are going to be my Bettmann’: Exploitative Sexual Relationships and the Lives of the Pipels in Nazi Concentration Camps”
• Justyna Matkowska, author of “Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Against Romani Women and Girls in Occupied Poland during World War II”
• Discussion with Kenny Fries, Atina Grossmann, Björn Krondorfer, Zoë Waxman, Pascale R. Bos, Edward Westermann
• Host: Yoav Yaron, Managing Editor

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/flnbNrcUBhw

Special issue: Gender-Based and Sexual Violence during the Holocaust

Gender-Based and Sexual Violence in the Holocaust: On the Importance of Writing this History Today by Dorota Glowacka and Regina Mühlhäuser

‘I Still Struggle to Ensure that I am Truly Listening': Understanding Gender, Sexuality, and Sexual Violence During the Holocaust. A Conversation by Kenny Fries, Dorota Glowacka, Atina Grossmann, Anna Hájková, Björn Krondorfer, Regina Mühlhäuser, Joanna Ostrowska, Zoë Waxman

 Asking About the ‘Unspeakable’: Joan Ringelheim and Early Research on Sexual Violence and Same-Sex Practices among Women During the Holocaust by Carli Snyder

Barter, Prostitution, Abuse? Reframing Experiences of Sexual Exchange during the Holocaust by Pascale R. Bos

‘You are going to be my Bettmann’: Exploitative Sexual Relationships and the Lives of the Pipels in Nazi Concentration Camps by William Ross Jones

‘Shultsloze Ferpeynikte Neshomes’ – ‘Vulnerable, Tormented Souls’: Gendered Wounds, Sexualized Violence, and Jewish Masculinity in the Yiddish Testimonies of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau by Christin Zühlke

Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Against Romani Women and Girls in Occupied Poland during World War II by Justyna Matkowska

Silences of Memory: Liberator Sexual Assault in the East at the End of World War II by Daina S. Eglitis

Crossing the Threshold of Sexual Violence: Sexual Humiliation and the Practice of Performative Masculinity by Edward B. Westermann

Visual Pleasures? Wehrmacht Vernacular Trophy Photographs and the Female Other in Nazi-Occupied Europe by Elissa Mailänder

Special issue: "Sites of Tension" - Transformations of Holocaust Memory in Light of Contemporary European Anxieties

Holocaust Memory Transformations in Contemporary Contexts: An Introduction by Nurit Novis-Deutsch & Tracy Adams

(Re-)Writing the Holocaust After Brexit: The Afterlives of British Fiction by Joanne Pettitt & Sue Vice

Holocaust Analogies, Conspiracy Theories, and Far-Right Victimhood: Forum for Democracy and the Future of Holocaust Memory in the Netherlands by Jazmine D. Contreras

Educational Autonomy and the Holocaust: A Comparative Study of Teachers’ Freedom in European Narratives by Nurit Novis-Deutsch

The Currency Value of the Holocaust and the Dynamics of ‘Zombie Memory’: Toward a Reconceptualization of Contemporary Holocaust Remembrance by Tracy Adams & Shmuel Lederman

In the Shadow of Two Monuments: Local Battlefields of Politics of History in Hungary and Poland by Anikó Félix & Piotr Forecki