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Concentration Camps of World War II

Women in the Nazi concentration camps of World War II - from Anne Frank to many whose names are forgotten. How did gender influence one's fate in the camps?
Women and World War II: Concentration Camps
Gender issues related to the Nazi concentration camps and the Holocaust
Faith, Friendship, Art and Education
Even in the concentration camps, women struggled to keep life worth living.
A Feminist Critique of the Holocaust?
Are women's experiences in the holocaust adequately studied by Holocaust scholars?
Violette Szabo
A rich and deep site on Violette Szabo, a British woman with half French heritage who volunteered during World War II. She parachuted into France twice, and, after she lost a gun battle with the Germans, she was sent to Ravensbrück where, in 1945, she was executed.
Women, Modernity and the Holocaust
A strong suggestion that "gender is not merely a sidebar issue in the counting of the dead."
Women Writing the Holocaust
An analysis of gender issues in Holocaust narratives.

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