Speaking the unspeakable: essays on sexuality, gender and Holocaust survivor memory

Based on 5000 interviews with Holocaust survivors and some previous academic work, these essays explore issues of sexuality and gender during the Holocaust. Describes the gendered ideology of the Nazi Eugenic Project, explores the way Nazi officials and guards used sexual abuse as part of the machinery of terror in the camps and surveys incidents of 'consensual' sex and even love among prisoners of the camps and ghettos. The issue of how survivors remember traumatic experience is a subtext of the final two essays