ABSTRACT
Jewish women during the Holocaust, like many other women in other situations of social unrest, military conquest, slavery and war, experienced sexual abuse and rape. In this chapter, the author aims to return to the deeply disturbing issue in order to call attention to one highly repercussive factor that distinguishes – and is distinctive to – the rape of Jewish women during the Holocaust, yet which has not been properly appreciated in the relevant scholarly analyses. This unique aspect of the rape of Jewish women sheds light not only on the matter of sexual violence during the Holocaust but also on the more general ideological character of the Nazi assault on the Jewish People. The author discusses the problematic realities that arose as a consequence of such behavior led, necessarily, to unprecedented – and lethal – outcomes. In the discussion just concluded the concentration was on the connection created between sexual relations and murder because of the law of Rassenschande.
