Out of the Shadows: Stories of Sexual Violence in the Holocaust

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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It's a story you may not know. During the Holocaust, sexual violence was used to terrorize, control, and dehumanize Jewish people. In the decades after, brave survivors and witnesses recorded their traumas.

They often described brutality at the hands of the Germans and their collaborators. Some shared stories of assaults by fellow prisoners, and even by rescuers who sheltered them. As we commemorate #SexualAssaultAwarenessMonth, join us to lift these voices once silenced by stigma or shame

Learn more about the experiences of victims of sexual violence during World War II and the Holocaust: https://perspectives.ushmm.org/tag/se...

The Nazis relied on ordinary men and women to perpetrate mass murder during the Holocaust. Watch a previous episode to learn more about how Nazi ideology enticed them to commit violence, including sexual assault:Power, Intoxication, and Masculinity:...

Sexual humiliation was only one of the ways that the Nazis and their collaborators publicly demeaned Jewish people. Read more about public humiliation during the Holocaust:
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