Consideration of Jewish women's lives and experiences during the Holocaust became a priority only late in the 20th century. Scholars focused on women's roles as homemakers, wives, breadwinners, supporters and resistors, with little, if any, attention paid to their reproductive or sexual lives. Many considered that the Rassenschande laws shielded Jewish women from the worst horrors of rape and sexual abuse leading to little investigation of this issue. Women were reluctant to speak of such intimate events, and researchers were hesitant to ask about them for fear of causing further hurt. Concern for the sensationalizing of women's experiences also inhibited investigation of this aspect of women's lives. Significant acts of emotional, sexual and physical abuse of women, were, however, perpetrated by the Nazis and others against men and women, Jews and non-Jews, including humiliating nudity, rape and physical abuse. This article focuses on Jewish women's sexual experiences as expressed in diaries, memoirs and testimonies. Recognizing the extent of women's adverse sexual experiences, and their aftermath, acknowledges their lives and honours their experiences. Literature on the Holocaust has repeatedly focused on the genocide of the Jews by direct means such as gassing, torture, deprivation and disease in ghettos and camps and at the hands of the Einsatzazgruppen, the mobile killing units that followed the German armies to Poland in and to the Soviet Union in
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