ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how shame and self-remorse derived from the experience of sexualized violence sets into motion gender and ethnic identities. The scientific description, or more precisely the biographical possibility of depicting violence, is also contradicted by the fact that neither Roza nor Mari had told "things as they had actually happened". When discussing WWII, the Shoah, and other genocides in the twentieth century, numerous authors have studied the most horrendous forms of sexualized violence, such as rape, being forced into prostitution, and forced sterilization. Throughout the parallel reading of the interviews, the following writings resonated in both conceptual and methodological terms: Shoshana Felman's (1992) essay on the film Shoah from the area of critical literary studies, Gender Is burning, a study by Judith Butler (1990) of feminist philosophy, and the related studies of Gabriele Rosenthal (1999, 2003) on biographical research.
