Life, death and sacrifice : women and family in the Holocaust / edited by Esther Hertzog.

Articles based on papers presented at several conferences organized between 2001 and 2005 by Beit Berl Academic College, Beit Terezin, and Beit Lohamei Haghetaot.

Includes bibliographical references.

Gender and family studies of the Holocaust : the development of a historical discipline / Judith Tydor Baumel -- Motherhood under siege / Dalia Ofer -- "We're all well and hoping to hear the same from you soon--" : the story of a group of families / Irith Dublon-Knebel -- 1943 : the flight from home / Lidia Sciama -- "Camp families" in Ravensbrück and the social organization of Jewish women prisoners in a concentration camp / Judith Buber Agassi -- The persecution and murder of German and German-Jewish women between 1933 and 1945 / Barbara Distel -- Racialised gender, gendered race and gendered-racialised academia : female-Jewish anthropologists in Vienna / Herta Nöbauer -- (Re)-interpreting stories of sexual violence : the multiple testimonies of Lucille Eichengreen / Kirsty Chatwood -- Nazi differentiations mattered : ideological intersections of sexualized violence during national socialist persecution / Helga Amesberger, Brigitte Halbmayr -- Social base of racial othering in Nazi society : the racial community and women's agency in denunciatory practices / Vandana Joshi -- Sophie Scholl : an exploration of a young woman's courage in Nazi Germany / Annette Dumbach -- Jewish political prisoners in Ravensbrück concentration camp / Rochelle G. Saidel -- Gender as a factor in rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust / Eva Fogelman -- Past and present in my mother's Holocaust memories / Esther Hertzog -- Gender, identity and family in the European Holocaust film : the Jewess as virgin and whore / Esther Fuchs.