Why Did Women Survive The Holocaust

The holocaust which occurred more than seventy years ago, an unimaginable place in which became a dystopian world for many Jewish people, and changed the life of those who were left to survive. Today all over the world we have heard many stories of Holocaust survivals and there personal experiences of their survival, and how many had to make hard decisions in their life’s in order to live. Indeed, surviving the holocaust was not an easy task it took a lot of strength and resistance to keep on living, and having hope for a better tomorrow. Researchers have recently discovered how women dealt with similar situation that occurred during the Holocaust, yet they manage to survive in very different ways and they also benefit from those survival skills. Women survived the Holocaust differently based on their survival skills from men, and were faced with the dilemma of not only being Jewish but also being women.
The goal that Hitler had in mind was the total annihilation of Jewish people and to reach that goal his purpose was to devalue the human race and make everyone believe that Jewish people where a “disease”. For …show more content…
Often time’s mothers and daughters formed strong bonds during the war and were perceived as a “glorification” for having each other. During the Holocaust some mother often protected their daughters, and this was seen as a strength that pushed them to survive. Women were portrayed as the protectors of their daughters due to the fact that many times they would give their portion of food to their daughter in order to insure their child’s survival. As the author Person mentions, “…the discussions of motherhood or sisterhood between women in camps, … often led to what could be perceived as a glorification of the motif of womanly strength in the face of persecution”