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cut out. Another reported that Jewish
prisoners were forced out naked into
the cold on Christmas Day, 1944.
"We can either dismiss any or all of
these stories as improbable," Saidel
observes, "or consider them precious
information that only one survivor
remembered. Unless and until proven
otherwise, I tend to subscribe to the
latter possibility."
It is true, of course, that in death all
Jews seemed alike to the Nazis.
But as -they lived their tortured lives,
men and women had very different
experiences.
Saidel notes that "physiological con-
siderations made the experiences of
women unlike those of men: menstru-
ation [she points out that even though
most women's periods stopped in the
camps, they still had to suffer through
at least one last period without any
sanitary means]; pregnancy; rape; and
forced prostitution."
With regard to socialization, Saidel
writes: "On the one hand, there were
positive aspects related to gender that
enabled women to better struggle
against the subhuman conditions of
degradation, deprivation, terror and
death at Ravensbrack. Homemaking
and nurturing skills were "women's
work," and women's familiarity with
these roles equipped them to form sur-
rogate families, care for each other and
perform the hygienic and housekeep-
ing routines that helped sustain life.
But these skills should not be
romanticized.
"Gender-associated qualities caused
some of the women to suffer. Girls
were brought up to be modest, and
many women were traumatized when
forced to parade naked before men,
and even other women. Women were
also taught to be submissive, and as
`the weaker sex,' they had to overcome
this ingrained self-image in order to
stay alive."
By examining women's unique expe-
riences and responses, and by combin-
ing minute insights with classic schol-
arly research, Saidel contributes to a
fuller and more finely nuanced under-
standing of what still remains entirely
unfathomable. The Jewish Women of
Ravensbriick Concentration Camp takes
its honorable place in the growing
genre of gender study of the
Holocaust. ❑

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