ABSTRACT
During the Holocaust, women, like their male counterparts, were subjected to a vast array of conditions which differed depending on geographical location, Nazis decrees, legislation, and actions, the progression of the war. Scholarship on women and the Holocaust continues to develop. Researchers focused on women or gendered research questions have looked at individual categories of women victims, including Germans, Jewish, Roma, and other groups as well as the experiences of female victims at various stages of the destruction process and varying geographical locations. The most difficult challenge to researching the topic of women and the Holocaust is the current focus of Holocaust historiography in which victim experience is a peripheral rather than a central issue. A variety of scholars ranging from historians to sociologists, anthropologists, and literary scholars have utilized a wide range of methods resulting in a rich understanding of women.
