A new perspective on Holocaust art: women's artistic expression of the female Holocaust experience (1939-49)

Since the second half of the 1970s studies focusing on the history of women during the Holocaust has been produced. These studies assert that even though Jewish women shared the annihilation threat with men, they also underwent unique experiences, and these were expressed visually in numerous works of art made by women. This article focuses especially on women's artistic expression of mutual assistance among women, loss of femininity and sexual violence.