Life, death and sacrifice
Subtitle: women and  family in the Holocaust
By: edited by Esther Hertzog.
Contributors: Hertzog, Esther.
Publisher: Gefen
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jerusalem; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9789652294296
Subjects: Jewish women in the Holocaust -- Congresses; Family -- Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Articles based on papers presented at several conferences organized between 2001 and 2005 by Beit Berl Academic College, Beit Terezin, and Beit Lohamei Haghetaot.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Gender and family studies of the Holocaust : the development of a historical discipline /  Judith Tydor Baumel; title: Motherhood under siege / Dalia Ofer; title: "We're all well and hoping to hear the same from you soon; title: " : the story of a group of families / Irith Dublon-Knebel; title: 1943 : the flight from home / Lidia Sciama; title: "Camp families" in Ravensbrück and the social organization of Jewish women prisoners in a concentration camp / Judith Buber Agassi; title: The persecution and murder of German and German-Jewish women between 1933 and 1945 / Barbara Distel; title: Racialised gender, gendered race and gendered-racialised academia : female-Jewish anthropologists in Vienna / Herta Nöbauer; title: (Re)-interpreting stories of sexual violence : the multiple testimonies of Lucille Eichengreen / Kirsty Chatwood; title: Nazi differentiations mattered : ideological intersections of sexualized violence during national socialist persecution / Helga Amesberger, Brigitte Halbmayr; title: Social base of racial othering in Nazi society : the racial community and women's agency in denunciatory practices / Vandana Joshi; title: Sophie Scholl : an exploration of a young woman's courage in Nazi Germany / Annette Dumbach; title: Jewish political prisoners in Ravensbrück concentration camp / Rochelle G. Saidel; title: Gender as a factor in rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust / Eva Fogelman; title: Past and present in my mother's Holocaust memories / Esther Hertzog; title: Gender, identity and family in the European Holocaust film : the Jewess as virgin and whore / Esther Fuchs.