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  • 19 - Sexual Exploitation and Violence during the Holocaust

  • Edited by Marion Kaplan, New York University, Natalia Aleksiun, University of Florida
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
    Published online:
    16 May 2025
    Print publication:
    12 June 2025, pp 314-329

  • Summary

    German men and their collaborators perpetrated sexual violence during the Holocaust and throughout the war, during pogroms, in ghettos and labor-camps, as well as in concentration and extermination camps. They committed this violence against women, girls, and gender-nonconforming people as well as against minorities, such as Roma. Sexual coercion and abuse also occurred within the societies of those persecuted, for example in ghettos, camps, or partisan groups. In hiding or during liberation, people also experienced sexual violence at the hands of protectors, allies, or liberation soldiers. This chapter focuses on the experiences of women, but importantly also addresses those of male victims. It also addresses how sexual violence was part of Nazis’ and their collaborators’ acts of genocidal violence against Jews.