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Women's Experiences in the Holocaust - In Their Own Words (Paperback)
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Women's Experiences in the Holocaust - In Their Own Words (Paperback)
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List price R406
Loot Price R332
Discovery Miles 3 320
You Save R74 (18%)
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This book brings to light women's experiences in the Holocaust. It
explains why women's difficulties were different to those of men.
Men were taken away and the women were left to cope with children
and elderly relatives and obliged to take on new roles. Women like
Andrew Sachs' mother had to deal with organising departure for a
foreign country and making choices about what to take and what to
abandon. The often desperate hunt for food for themselves and those
in their care more often than not fell to the women, as did medical
issues. They had to face pregnancies, abortions and, in some camps,
medical experiments. Many women wrote diaries, memoirs, letters and
books about their experiences and these have been used extensively
here. The accounts include women who fought or worked in the
resistance, like Zivia Lubetkin who was part of the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising. Dr Gisella Perl was a doctor in Auschwitz under the
infamous Dr Mengele. Some young girls acted as Kashariyot,
underground couriers between ghettos. Their varied experiences
represent the extremities of human suffering, endeavour and
courage. The author herself is a survivor, born in 1944. Her mother
struggled to keep her safe in the mayhem of the Budapest Ghetto
when she was a tiny baby and dealt with the threat from Russian
soldiers after the liberation of Budapest in January 1945.
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