A pocket of love: traditional female roles as a mode of resistance
TitleA pocket of love: traditional female roles as a mode of resistance
Author
Call number940.5318/0345
Object number07205F
Place of publicationNewcastle upon Tyne, England
PublisherCambridge Scholars Publishing
Year of publication
2010
Physical descriptionpp77-86
MaterialArticle
ISBN9781443818636
NotesArticle from the book 'Holocaust persecution: responses and consequences' pp77-86
Description
Draws from survivors' autobiographies to reveal how Jewish women used female-gendered behaviours as strategies for survival within concentration camps. She elucidates some of the differences between male and female responses to the "divide and conquer" approach used by the Germans, as they attempted to pit prisoners against each other through meager food rations and inadequate supplies.