Was there a gender aspect to survival?
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 01:09:23
Category: / History / European History
Length: 11 pages (2965 words)
Category: / History / European History
Length: 11 pages (2965 words)
Documentation on survival of the Holocaust has primarily focused on the lives of men as written by men and perceived by men. Unfortunately, this leads us to believe that men and women experienced the Holocaust the same way. Although one would be naïve in assigning purely gender-related reasons for survival (experiences such as thirst, hunger and deprivation were non-discriminate) it is clear that gender-related behaviour of men and women, and gender …
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