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Brana Gurewitsch is archivist at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York.
An important original contribution to the fields of Holocaust
historyand women's studies. The stories are compelling, detailed,
varied, andnicely balanced geographically. Gurewitsch's analysis is
reasoned and scholarly, without excluding or diminishing the role
that faith played in sustainingthe survivors.--Myrna Goldenberg,
University of Maryland
"An important original contribution to the fields of Holocaust
history and women's studies. The stories are compelling, detailed,
varied, and nicely balanced geographically. Gurewitsch's analysis
is reasoned and scholarly, without excluding or diminishing the
role that faith played in sustaining the survivors."
--Myrna Goldenberg, University of Maryland
"Brana Gurewitsch has presented a valuable volume, carefully
arranged to reveal yet other angles of the Holocaust, angles that
must remain irreducible, because they are the expressions,
dutifully given, of individual souls. The women who speak to us
throughout the book do so bravely and elegantly."
--Barbara Galli, The University of Alabama
"The collection is a rich one which enhances our knowledge of
women's experiences in several ways. Born in such diverse countries
as Poland, Holland, Germany, Greece, Belgium, Lithuania, Hungary,
Italy, Austria, and Slovakia, the interviewees provide details of
the onslaught of Nazism in a range of contexts and of how that
onslaught affected women specifically. They speak of childbirth in
unspeakable conditions, of the fear and the actuality of rape, of
Lagerschwestern (camp nurse) relationships, of being thrust into
unaccustomed roles of responsibility and decision-making, of family
dynamics, of life in the ghettos, of the behavior of liberators, of
internment in a wide range of camps, of their roles in resistance.
They speak of the mundane aspects of day-to-day living--food,
clothing, sleep, healthcare--which often made the difference
between life and death. They recount experiences in hiding, failed
and successful efforts at escape, and the gripping circumstances of
chance which are part of all survivors' stories."
--Journal of Genocide Research
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