Imagine the common race of the people being slaughtered on a mass scale and living in fear 24/7. The Jewish people in The Holocaust did not just imagine that, but lived it. The holocaust was the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II (Merriam-Webster np). In the Holocaust, Jewish women had it the worst. Many events during the Holocaust led to the oppression of Jewish women such as concentration camps, sexual violence, and unethical experimentations. More than 6 million European Jews were murdered at concentration camps, such as Auschwitz and Ravensbrück. Concentration camps were a brutal place to be in. Concentration camps were places where forced labor was provided or where mass execution
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Often, the experimentations led to death. Jewish women were sent to concentration camps where the majority of people would be murdered. Two of the most famous concentration camps during the Holocaust were called Ravensbrück and Auschwitz. Ravensbrück was designed to be a slave labor camp and to punish female political prisoners as Germany prepares for a war. Jewish women in Ravensbrück were usually sent off to do slave labor in the main camp’s satellite work camps (Saidel 151). Saidel stated,“They were forced to do hard labor such as paving roads, loading bricks, digging ditches, and felling trees, many of them simply would not have the stamina even under normal condition” (212). It is a proven fact that on average men are stronger than women, but the Natzi’s did not care. Along with the women not having enough stamina, the starvation, illness, and sleep deprivation did not help finish the tasks. The women were used like animals with many of them forming a human chain for pulling a huge roller to pave the streets (Saidel 13). Saidel mentioned a woman named Ester who states that, “Women received a tiny bit of bread a day, and also a little bit of lukewarm water …show more content…
There was prostitution, rape, and sexual slavery. As Saidel states, “Sexual assault also occurs in peacetime, but in times of war, this phonomenon multiplies and the number of victims grows significantly” (13). During the Holocaust, World War II was happening. According to the previous statement, the rates and victims for sexual assault will go up, and that is exactly what happened. When there is no war, in most countries, rape is against the law, but in wars, rape is something normal to do and a basic routine (Saidel 13). Sadly, many of these stories of sexual assault against jewish women in the Holocaust has been silenced for a while now. The Natzi’s saw the women as sexual objects and biological dangers. To the Natzi’s, women did not matter, and were not seen as human beings. Some women were murdered after being raped and some preferred silence (Saidel 16). Even the women who survived rape, were ashamed that they survived (Saidel 16). That statement says a lot about how tragic and horrifying the rape really was and the ever lasting thoughts that it gave the Jewish women. Rape and sexual molestation were common during the Holocaust, so women lived in fear 24/7, hoping not to be the next victim, or to be raped
Often, the experimentations led to death. Jewish women were sent to concentration camps where the majority of people would be murdered. Two of the most famous concentration camps during the Holocaust were called Ravensbrück and Auschwitz. Ravensbrück was designed to be a slave labor camp and to punish female political prisoners as Germany prepares for a war. Jewish women in Ravensbrück were usually sent off to do slave labor in the main camp’s satellite work camps (Saidel 151). Saidel stated,“They were forced to do hard labor such as paving roads, loading bricks, digging ditches, and felling trees, many of them simply would not have the stamina even under normal condition” (212). It is a proven fact that on average men are stronger than women, but the Natzi’s did not care. Along with the women not having enough stamina, the starvation, illness, and sleep deprivation did not help finish the tasks. The women were used like animals with many of them forming a human chain for pulling a huge roller to pave the streets (Saidel 13). Saidel mentioned a woman named Ester who states that, “Women received a tiny bit of bread a day, and also a little bit of lukewarm water …show more content…
There was prostitution, rape, and sexual slavery. As Saidel states, “Sexual assault also occurs in peacetime, but in times of war, this phonomenon multiplies and the number of victims grows significantly” (13). During the Holocaust, World War II was happening. According to the previous statement, the rates and victims for sexual assault will go up, and that is exactly what happened. When there is no war, in most countries, rape is against the law, but in wars, rape is something normal to do and a basic routine (Saidel 13). Sadly, many of these stories of sexual assault against jewish women in the Holocaust has been silenced for a while now. The Natzi’s saw the women as sexual objects and biological dangers. To the Natzi’s, women did not matter, and were not seen as human beings. Some women were murdered after being raped and some preferred silence (Saidel 16). Even the women who survived rape, were ashamed that they survived (Saidel 16). That statement says a lot about how tragic and horrifying the rape really was and the ever lasting thoughts that it gave the Jewish women. Rape and sexual molestation were common during the Holocaust, so women lived in fear 24/7, hoping not to be the next victim, or to be raped