Denisa Nešťáková & Katja Grosse-Sommer 
If This Is a Woman [EPUB ebook] 
Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust

Table of Contents 

Acknowledgements

Foreword: Unholy Alliances
Andrea Pető

Introduction
Denisa Nešťáková, 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 Škorvanková

Part Three: Women’s Lives in Camps

5. “Our mother organized it all”: The Role of Mothers of Sereď Camp in the Memories of Their Children
Denisa Nešťáková

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

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.