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Women and The Holocaust

• Allen, Ann Taylor. "The Holocaust and the Modernization of Gender: A
    Historiographical Essay. "  Central European History   30.3 (1997): 349-364.
• Baer, Elizabeth R. and Goldenberg, Myrna.  Experience and Expression: Women,
  The Nazis, and the Holocaust.  Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2003.
• Baskin Judith. Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1996.
• Baumel, Judith.
  • Double Jeopardy: Gender and the Holocaust. Portland: Vallentine Mitchell, 1998.
  • "Social Interaction among Jewish Women in Crisis during the Holocaust:' Gender and History 7.1 (1995): 64-84.
• Bendremer, Jutta. Women Surviving the Holocaust: in Spite of the Horror Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, 1997.
• Brenner, Rachel. Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust. University Park: Penn State UP, 1997.
• Bridenthal, Renate. Atina Grossmann and Marion Kaplan, eds. When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany New York: Monthly Review Press, 1984.
• Cole, Diana. "A Sudden Spate of Women's Holocaust Memoirs." Lilith 18.1 (1993): 2628.
• Cosner, Sharon and Victoria Cosner. Women under the Third Reich: a Biographical Dictionary New York: Greenwood Press, 1998.
• DeCosta, Denise. Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum: Inscribing Spirituality and Sexuality.  New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1998.
• De Silva, Cara. In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin. New Jersey: Jason Aronson, 1996.
• Distel, Barbara.  Frauen im Holocaust.  Gerlingen: Bleicher Verlag, 2001.
• Dworkin, Andrea. "The Unremembered: Searching for Women at the Holocaust Memorial Museum." Ms. (Nov/Dec, 1994): 5258.
• Ezrahi, Sidra. By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature Chicago: University of Chicago P, 1980.
• Fine, Ellen S. "Women Writers and the Holocaust: Strategies for Survival." Reflections of the Holocaust in Art and Literature Ed. Randolph L Braham . New York: Columbia UP, 1990.
• Felstiner, Mary Lowenthal. "Taking Her Life/History: the Autobiography of Charlotte Salomon."  Life/Lines: Theorizing Women's Autobiography.  Ed. Bella Brodski and Celeste Schenek.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1998.
  • To Paint Her Life: Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era.  New York: HarperPerennial, 1995.
• Fishman, Ellen. "Why Women are Writing Holocaust Memoirs Now" Lillith 15.2 (1990): 67,29.
• Frederiksen, Elke P. and Wallach, Martha.  Facing Fascism and Confronting the Past:
  German Women Writers from Weimar to the Present.  Albany: SUNY UP, 2000.
• Fuchs, Esther.  ed. Women and the Holocaust: Narrative and Representation. Lanham: University Press of America, 1999.
• Goldenberg, Myrna.
  • "Different Horrors, Same Hell: Women Remembering the Holocaust." Thinking the Unthinkable: Meanings of the Holocaust Ed. Roger S. Gottlieb. Nahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1990.
  • "Lessons Learned from Gentle Heroism: Women's Holocaust Narratives. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 548 (Nov 1996): 7893.
  • "Testimony, Narrative, and Nightmare. The Experiences of Jewish Women in the Holocaust." Active Voices: Women in Jewish Culture. Ed. Maurice Sacks. Urbana: University of Illinois P, 1995.
  • 'From a World Beyond': Women in the Holocaust." Feminist Studies. 22. 3 (Fall, 1996): 667-687.
  • " Choices, Risks, and Conscience," Belles Lettres 10 (Winter 199394):4245.
• Gurewitsch, Brana, ed. Mothers, Sisters, Resisters: Oral Histories of Women Who Survived the Holocaust Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1998.
• Halio, Jay and Ben Siegel, eds. Daughters of Valor: Contemporary Jewish American Women Writers Newark: University of Delaware P, 1997.
• Heineman, Elizabeth. "The Hour of the Woman: memories of Germany's 'Crisis Years'
  and West German National Identity." American Historical Review 101 (1996):
  354-95.
  • What Difference Does a Husband Make? Women and Marital
    Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany.   Berkeley: University of California Press,
    1999.
• Heineman, Marlene. Gender and Destiny: Women Writers and the Holocaust New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.
• Higgonet, Margaret et al, eds. Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars New Haven: Yale UP, 1987.
• Hirsch, Marianne.  Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1997.
  • and Spitzer, Leo.  "Gendered Translations: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah"  in Gendering War Talk , eds. Miriam Cooke and Angela Woollcott.  Princeton:
    Princeton UP, 1993.
• Horowitz, Sara R.
  • "Memory and Testimony of Women Survivors of Nazi Genocide." Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing. Ed Judith Baskin. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1996
  • "The Pin with which to Stick Yourself': The Holocaust in Jewish American Women's Writing." Daughters of Valor: Contemporary Jewish American Women Writers Eds. Jay Halio and Ben Siegel. Newark: University of Delaware P, 1997.
• Kaplan, Marion A. Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany.  New York: Oxford UP, 1998.
• Katz, Esther and Joan Ringelheim, eds. Proceedings of the Conference: WQmen Surviving the Holocaust New York: Institute for Research in History, 1983.
• Kaufman, Debra.  "The Holocaust and Sociological Inquiry: A Feminist Analysis." Contemporary Jewry  17 (1996): 6-17.
• Koonz, Claudia. Mothers in the Fatherland: Women. the Fam ily and Nazi Politics. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.
• Kremer, Lillian.
  • Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination. Lincoln: University of Nebraska P, 1999.
  • "The Holocaust and the Witnessing Imagination." Violence. Silence and Anger: Women"s Writing as Transmission. Ed. Deirdre Lashgari. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1995.
  • "HolocaustWrought Women: Portraits by Four American Writers." Studies in American Jewish Literature 11.2 (Fall 1992): 150-161.
  • "Holocaust Writing." The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. New York: Oxford UP, 1994.
• Lacey, Kate. "Driving the Message Home: Nazi Propaganda in the Private Sphere." Gender Relations in German History: Power, Agency, and Experience from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century.  Ed. Lynn Abrams and Elizabeth Harvey.  Durham: Duke UP, 1997.
• Laska, Vera. Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust: The Voices of Eyewitness. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1983.
• Linden, R. Ruth. Making Stories, Making Selves: Feminist Reflections on the Holocaust. Columbus: Ohio UP, 1993.
• Lixl-Purcell, Andreas .  "Memoirs as History."  Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook  39 (1994)
  227-238.
• Lorenz, Dagmar. Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska P, 1997.
• Magnus, Shulamith. " 'Out of the Ghetto': Integrating the Study of Jewish Women Into the Study of the 'The Jews'." Judaism 39. 1(1990): 28-36.
• Martin, Elaine, ed. Gender, Patriarchy, and Fascism in the Third Reich: The Response of Women Writers.   Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1993.
• Miller, J Love Carried Me Home:  Women surviving Auschwit. Deerfield Beach:  Simcha Press. 2000
  • It is the story of the first 16 women who gave their testimonies to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.  It is a based on a dissertation which investigated the coping strategies of women during their internment in Auschwitz.
• Milton, Sybil. "Women and the Holocaust: The Case of German and German Jewish Women." When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany. Eds. Renate Bridenthal, Atina Grossman, Marion Kaplan. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1984.
• Morrison, Jack.  Ravensbrück: Everyday Life in a Women's Concentration Camp.  Markus Wiener Publishers, 2000.
• Ofer, Dalia and Lenore Weitzman. Women in the Holocaust. New Haven: Yale UP, 1998.
• Owings, Alison. Frauen: Germany Women Recall the Third Reich.  New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1993.
• Phayer, Michael and Eva Fleishner. Cries in the Night: Women Who Challenged the Holocaust Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1997.
• Reading, Anna .  "Scarlet Lips in Belsen: Culture, Gender, and Ethnicity in the policies
  of the Holocaust." Media, Culture, and Society  21.4 (July 1999): 481-502.
• Remmler, Karen. "Gender Identities and the Remembrance of the Holocaust" Women in German Yearbook 10 (1994): 167-187.
• Ringelheim, Joan.
  • ''The Unethical and the Unspeakable: Women and the Holocaust." Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual I Ed. Alex Grobman. Chappaqua, N.Y. (1984): 69-87.
  • 'Thoughts about Women and the Holocaust!' Thinking the Unthinkable: Meanings of the Holocaust Ed. Roger S. Gottlieb. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1990.
  • "Women and the Holocaust: A Reconsideration of Research." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 10. 4 (1985):74-161.
  • "Women and the Holocaust: A Reconsideration of Research." Jewish Women in Historical Perspective Ed. Judith R. Baskin. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1991.
  • "Women and the Holocaust: A Reconsideration of Research." Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust Eds. Carol Rittner and John K. Roth. New York: Paragon House, 1993.
• Rittner, Carol and John K. Roth , eds. Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust. New York: Paragon House, 1993.
• Rittner, Carol.  "Blind But Not Ignorant: German Women During the Holocaust." Peace, Indeed: Essays in Honor of Harry Cargas.  Ed. Zev Garber and Richard Libowitz.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998.
• Ritvo, Roger A. and Diane M. Plotkin. Sisters in Sorrow: Voices of Care in the Holocaust College Station: Texas A & M UP, 1998.
• Ronit, Lentin.   "Expected to Live: Women Shoah Survivors' Testimonials of Silence."  Women's Studies International Forum  23.6 (Nov-Dec.2000): 689.
• Saidel, Rochelle.  The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp.  Madison:  University of Wisconsin Press, 2004
• Schoppmann, Claudia.
  • Days of Masquerade Life Stories of Lesbians during the Third Reich New York: Columbia UP, 1996.
  • "National Socialist Policies Toward Female Homosexuality."  Gender Relations in German History:  Power, Agency, and Experience from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century. Ed. Lynn Abrams and Elizabeth Harvey.  Durham: Duke UP, 1997.
• Schwertfeger, Ruth. Women of Theresienstadt: Voices from a Concentration Camp Oxford: Berg, 1989.
• Smith, Roger W. "Women and Genocide: Notes on an Unwritten History," Holocaust and Genocide Studies 8.3 (1994):315-334.
• Stoltzfus, Nathan. Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germay.  New York:  W.W. Norton, 1996.
• Summerfield, Penny.  Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives.  Manchester:  Manchester UP, 1998. 
• Tec, Nechama. Resilience and Courage: Women, Men and the Holocaust.  New Haven:
  Yale UP, 2003.
  • "Sex Distinctions and Passing as Christians During the Holocaust."  East European Quarterly  18.1 (1984): 113-123.
• Weitz, Margaret Collins. Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-1945.  New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1995.