Don't mute Kolan: "I remember we were standing naked in the queue for hair removal"

"I remember standing naked in the sauna queuing for the hair removal. I approached one of the Jewish guards and asked him to talk to someone who would not lower my braids, and he answered: If you have a head of hair you will grow again, and if you don't have a head anyway you don't need hair." staff). Don't ignore the women's suffering

Hitler and Eva Brown (Photo: GettyImages)

Hitler and Eva Brown, from Eva's personal album, 1942 (Photo: GettyImages)

It is almost impossible to understand and contain all the torment suffered by communities and individuals during the Holocaust. Being a Jew in the Holocaust was almost certainly a code for torture, humiliation, hunger and anguish. But being a Jewish woman in the Holocaust - there was all this and more.

The challenges faced by women during the Holocaust were unbearable, and some were different from those faced by men. The women found themselves coping in various arenas and unconditional conditions, trying to survive and make the most of it. Historian Emmanuel Ringelblum of the Warsaw Ghetto documented the Holocaust wrote in his diaries that "the future historian will have to dedicate a suitable page to the Jewish woman in the war. It will occupy an important page in Jewish history for her courage and stamina. It has enabled thousands of families to overcome the dread of the days."

These strong words written from the Inferno as early as 1942 indicate the extraordinary coping of the women in the period. Rabbinical Holocaust researcher Esther Farbstein divided women's areas of competence into four different circles, with each life facing different questions of life and death, and in each of the circles women faced different kinds of struggles.

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Circles of suffering

The first circle is the everyday circle. The women, mothers, or girls found themselves having to manage their daily lives under conditions. In the ghetto or in the camps, mothers tried to preserve the human photographer as they struggled to feed the children, wash their clothes and maintain basic hygiene. The second circle is the circle of generations. Faced with Jewish women, the question of the family stood. Do you get married? For what reasons yes and why not, should you have children in a world where cruelty reigns? And religiously - is it possible to get married when the possibility of maintaining family purity is almost nonexistent, or the possibility of having soft babies. The answers to these questions have never been simple, but the evidence and pictures found are proof that weddings did take place. Infants born and surviving are proof of the Jewish people's desire for Jewish life continuity even under conditions.

Another circle that Frabstein speaks of is the circle of time. The days in the camps were endless and endless, the morning was a continuation of the night and the night was a continuation of the day, but Jewish women were important to keep time. Like the stories from men's camps about trying to bake matzah at designated times or light up Chanukah candles in time, the photos and research indicate the women did not give up, and continued to count the days to light Shabbat candles, keep a candle, or keep various female staff on time.

The last circle is the circle of society. Although it seems that in such situations every woman would want to put her head in their hands and just go through this awful period as easily as possible, the stories of mutual help and female support in camps are known and known. The companies have become a family substitute and a female support and assistance system.

Don't touch me

Although it seems that the Holocaust - where the Germans 'goal was to kill and the Jews' survival - is not the place to keep anything but life, there were women who were important to women. One of the humiliating and difficult acts the women who came to the extermination camps experienced was the spread and shaving of their hair, and thus Dieta Segal says in her testimony at Yad Vashem: "I remember standing in the sauna as a hair cut and wondering what so many men do - we didn't know each other anymore. I approached one of the Jewish guards and asked him to maybe talk to someone who would not take my braids down, and he told me that if I had a head then the hair would grow and if I didn't have a head then the hair was not needed anyway. "

Another challenge women face is the rape and sexual abuse. This is a known war tactic, conquerors reach the conquered people and rape women to prove supremacy. The Holocaust in that respect was no different. Despite the ban on the Nazis - descendants of the Aryan race - to marry or be with Jewish women, the Germans made sure to humiliate the women, strip them and touch them, and whenever possible, did not hesitate to rape despite the ban.

And not just the Nazis. Once the demeanor of Jewishness was abandoned, some of the Gentiles joined the occupied countries and also raped Jewish women, either from a sense of power or as payment for other basic food or consumer goods.

The rape and sexual harassment in the Holocaust is a repressed and almost unknown topic, with little evidence of women being raped. Historians claim that repression of the issue was a desire to marry as quickly as possible and not to be a "defective commodity" undergoing rape. And perhaps the concealment was actually due to the shame the women felt about being raped, a sense that rape survives even in our times - a much calmer period, at least in terms of physical security - in relation to the Holocaust.