Denisa Ne¿áková holds a PhD in history. Her main interest is the history of the Holocaust and gender studies in East-Central Europe. She is an external researcher at Comenius University, Bratislava, where she is working on her postdoctoral project "Women and Men in the Labor Camp Sere¿, Slovakia." As a research associate at the Herder Institute, she focuses on the history of family planning in Czechoslovakia. Katja Grosse-Sommer is a PhD student at the University of Hamburg. She holds a master's degree in Holocaust and Genocide studies from the University of Amsterdam and is a graduate of the Paideia Jewish Studies Program. She has been involved in organizing various conferences, events, and exhibitions related to National Socialist persecution and its remembrance. Her research focuses on Holocaust memory and commemoration, and modern Jewish history. Borbála Klacsmann received a master's in history from Eötvös Loránd University and a master's in comparative history with a specialization in Jewish studies from Central European University (2012). Since September 2015 she has been a doctoral student at the Department of History at the University of Szeged and a member of the Hungarian research group of Yad Vashem. Her work centers on the Holocaust and its aftermath in Hungary. Jakub Drábik is a historian mainly interested in comparative fascism studies, but covers a broad range of twentieth-century history topics in his research and teaching. He completed his doctorate at Charles University in Prague in 2014, and since 2016 has worked at the Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences, and taught at Masaryk University in Brno.
Table of Contents Acknowledgements Foreword: Unholy Alliances Andrea Pet
Introduction Denisa Ne
áková, Katja Grosse-Sommer, Borbála Klacsmann, and Jakub Drábik Part One: Theoretical Reflections on a Gender Focus in Holocaust Studies 1. "Will You Hear My Voice?" Women in the Holocaust: Memory and Analysis Dalia Ofer 2. A Familial Turn in Holocaust Scholarship? Natalia Aleksiun Part Two: Gender in Times of Occupation and Authoritarianism: Expectation and Reality 3. Masculinities under Occupation: Considerations of a Gender Perspective on Everyday Life under German Occupation Agnes Laba 4. New Slovak Woman: The Feminine Ideal in the Authoritarian Regime of the Slovak State, 1939-1945 Eva korvanková Part Three: Women's Lives in Camps 5. "Our mother organized it all": The Role of Mothers of Sere
Camp in the Memories of Their Children Denisa Ne
áková 6. Women in the Ilava Camp as Political Detainees in 1939 Marína Zavacká Part Four: Women in Positions of Community Leadership 7. Women in Dror and Gendered Experiences of the Holocaust? Anna Nedlin-Lehrer 8. Female Involvement in the "Jewish Councils" of the Netherlands and France: Gertrude van Tijn and Juliette Stern Laurien Vastenhout Part Five: Women in the Resistance 9. "Ma'am, do you know that a Jew lives here?" The Betrayal of Polish Women and the Jewish Children They Hid during the Holocaust-the Case of Cracow Joanna Sliwa 10. "And with these boots, I'm gonna run away from here": The Significance of Female Narratives in the Sobibor Uprising and Its Aftermath Hannah Wilson 11. "After all, I was a 'female' and a 'yid' to boot." Jewish Women among Partisans in Lithuania, 1941-1944 Modiane Zerdoun-Daniel Part Six: Sexuality and Sexual Violence 12. Listening to Women's Voices: Jewish Rape Survivors' Testimonies in Soviet War Crimes Trials Marta Havryshko 13. Male Jewish Teenage Sexuality in Nazi Germany Florian Zabransky Contributors
