Zionist, Jewish activist and leader of the Slovakian Jewish community during the Holocaust, Gisi Fleischmann — worked tirelessly to rescue Jewish victims of Nazi persecution, to smuggle refugees to Palestine, and in attempts to bribe Nazi officials to stop deportations. Ultimately she was included in the last transport from Slovakia to the Auschwitz death camp, from which she never returned. To use gender as a framework for analysis is simply to become more attentive to the possible consequences of one of the major axes of all social organization—together with age, class, race and religion.
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How Sexualized Violence Is Used as a Weapon of War
WMC Women Under Siege investigates how sexualized violence is used as a weapon in conflict and beyond. WMC Fbomb is an intersectional teen feminist media platform created by and for socially conscious youth. WMC SheSource is an online database of media-experienced women experts who we connect to journalists, bookers and producers. Virtually unexplored until recently, sexualized violence in the Holocaust took many forms, faces, and insidious paths.
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All other sites close at Entrance to the Holocaust History Museum is not permitted for children under the age of Babies in strollers or carriers will not be permitted to enter. On the night of December 13, , Latvian policemen arrested the Jews of Liepaja and took them to jail. Those with work permits, along with their families, were released. The remaining Jews were taken to Skede, north of Liepaja, to the dunes overlooking the Baltic Sea, the site of a former military training grounds. A long ditch had been dug just before the dunes. The Jews were forced to strip off their clothes except for their underwear. Near the ditch they then were made to take off their remaining clothes and assemble in groups of ten. They were executed by members of a Latvian SD guard platoon, units of the 21st Latvian police battalion, and members of the Schutzpolizei-Dienstabteilung German security police under the command of the local SS and Police Leader Fritz Dietrich.
By Will Stewart for MailOnline. Seventy years on from the end of the Second World War the full, shocking scale of the Nazi-inspired Holocaust in Ukraine is finally being revealed - thanks to pioneering work by a French Catholic priest to research the truth of the industrial-scale killing. Around 2, mass graves of Jewish victims have been located where men, women and children were shot and buried by the Germans and their collaborators.
