“You Said the Words You Wanted Me to Hear But I Heard the Words You Couldn't Bring Yourself to Say”: Women's First Person Accounts of the Holocaust

Baumel, Judith Tydor

doi:10.1093/ohr/27.1.17

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“…The valorisation of private experience led to a re-evaluation of the personal testimony of eyewitnesses and survivors as a source of knowledge about the past. The focus on testimony was part of a shift in historical research from the public sphere to the private sphere, to the study of the experience of everyday life under the Nazi regime within Germany itself and throughout Europe under German occupation (Baumel 2000).…”

Section: Sexual Violence and Histories Of The Holocaustmentioning

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Local Testimony and the (Un)Silencing of Sexual Violence in Lithuania under German Occupation during WWII

Davoliūtė

2021

Humanities

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The memory of sexual violence in Eastern Europe under German occupation during WWII has long been silenced by the opacity of local events to outside observers, a conspiracy of silence on the issue of collaboration, and conventions on how the Holocaust should be represented. Since the collapse of the USSR, the opening of archives has stimulated the production of a large and growing literature on the nature and causes of communal violence, but with relatively limited attention to sexual violence as an aspect of genocide. Based on a qualitative analysis of select audio-visual testimonies collected from non-Jewish Lithuanians since the 1990s, this paper demonstrates that local knowledge of sexual violence has persisted for decades in the post-genocidal space. However, these testimonies have been overshadowed by politicized narratives of national martyrology, and neglected by local and international researchers alike, despite their importance to the process of historical reckoning.

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Section: Sexual Violence and Histories Of The Holocaustmentioning

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Local Testimony and the (Un)Silencing of Sexual Violence in Lithuania under German Occupation during WWII

Davoliūtė

2021

Humanities

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“…Following Joan Miriam Ringelheim’s pioneering articles (1984, 1985) on the importance of gendering Holocaust experiences, a vast number of books and articles have explored gender-determined forms of suffering, behaviour and victimization (e.g. Allen, 1997; Baer and Goldenberg, 2003; Baumel, 1998, 2000; Bergen, 2013; Goldenberg, 1996; Heinemann, 1986; Horowitz, 2000; Jacobs, 2010; Kremer, 1999; Linden, 1993; Mushaben, 2004; Ofer and Weitzman, 1998; Pine, 2008; Ringelheim, 1984, 1985; Rittner and Roth, 1993; Saidel, 2006; Schoenfeld, 2001; Smith, 1994; Tec, 2003; Waxman, 2003). Such awareness of women’s particular suffering has been an integral part of Israeli Holocaust-related cinema, since the first film featuring a woman survivor.…”

Section: Visualizing Sexualized Violencementioning

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Visual responses: Women’s experience of sexual violence as represented in Israeli Holocaust-related cinema

Meiri

2015

European Journal of Women's Studies

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This article explores the function of Israeli narrative films' persistent, albeit marginal, portrayal of women as victims of sexual violence during the Holocaust. While the marginalization of such characters may be attributed to the difficulty of representing sexually-related trauma/post-trauma, their portrayal attests both to the ubiquity of sexually-related crimes in the Holocaust and to its aftermath: namely, the persistence of women's trauma. The first of the two waves of 'retro films' examined here evinces the importance of the visual, cinematic representation of women's trauma. Its main function is to legitimize its disclosure through cinematic aesthetic/artistic mediation, for sexual violence was a crime committed against helpless victims. The second wave includes films made from the point of view of 'the second generation', and explores the topic further by dealing with the transmission of post-traumatic symptoms of women's trauma to the second generation.

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‘Because wemust notforget’: thematic reading of WWII diaries of young women and girls

Rudin¹

2018

Holocaust Studies

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“You Said the Words You Wanted Me to Hear But I Heard the Words You Couldn't Bring Yourself to Say”: Women's First Person Accounts of the Holocaust

Cited by 8 publications

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Local Testimony and the (Un)Silencing of Sexual Violence in Lithuania under German Occupation during WWII

Local Testimony and the (Un)Silencing of Sexual Violence in Lithuania under German Occupation during WWII

Visual responses: Women’s experience of sexual violence as represented in Israeli Holocaust-related cinema

‘Because wemust notforget’: thematic reading of WWII diaries of young women and girls

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