Women in the Holocaust
Ofer and Weitzman, in their introductory essay, posit that their book "shows how questions about gender lead us to a richer and more finely nuanced understanding of the Holocaust." The book is divided into four parts: before the war, life in the ghettos, resistance and rescue, and labor camps and concentration camps. Liza Chapnik, a Holocaust survivor from Poland, offers a moving account of the early days after the German capture of her hometown of Grodno in July_ 1941. Ida Fink, survivor and prizewinning novelist, captures in a short story the terror of a family's rehearsal for the inevitable knock on the door when the Nazis come to take them away. Another chapter presents interviews of a cross section of women in the Warsaw ghetto, conducted in 1942. One survivor tells of her dangerous work as a courier for the underground youth movement in two Polish ghettos; yet another describes her life in Auschwitz. This remarkable book is a noteworthy addition to the literature of the Holocaust.George Cohen--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.