Social interaction among Jewish women in crisis during the Holocaust

Baumel-Schwartz, Judith Tydor, 1959-
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Title Social interaction among Jewish women in crisis during the Holocaust : a case study.
Original Library/publisher Double Jeopardy
Gender and the Holocaust, [by] Judith Tydor Baumel. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 1998
Host Item Gender & History 7,1 (1995) 64-84
Description Analyzes the behavior of ten young women (16-26 years old), who banded together in a non-formal mutual assistance group in the labor camp Plaszow (in 1944 all of them were transferred to Auschwitz). Nine of the ten had an Orthodox religious background
all came from Western Galicia, in Poland. The group was distinct, in some aspects, from other similar mutual assistance groups in the camps
in particular, its members did not separate themselves from other prisoners and they rendered assistance to some non-members. Within the group, mother-daughter-type relations developed, rather than those of sisters. The specifics of the group's behavior may be attributed to three factors: gender, religion, and prewar experience. Based on interviews with the survivors of the group, as well as memoir literature, including the book by one of the survivors, Pearl Benisch, "To Vanquish the Dragon" (1991). (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
In the Plaszow labor camp.
Appeared also in her "Double Jeopardy" (1998).
Language English
National Library system number 990001491920705171
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