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This is a comprehensive study of women's lives during the Holocaust and how gender often operated as a crucial signifier for survival, with many pregnant women, women with young children, and those deemed unfit for hard labour being sent straight to the gas chambers; challenging the overlooking and oversimplification of the role of gender in the Holocaust.

Writing as resistance : bearing witness in the Warsaw Ghetto -- Writing to survive : the testimony of the concentration camps -- Writing to remember : the role of the survivor -- Writing ignored : reading women's Holocaust testimonies -- Writing the ineffable : the representation of testimony

In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as important for understanding the Holocaust—and, by extension, any past event—as is archival research. It aims to go beyond the dominant paradigm of political history and describe the emergence of methods now being used to reconstruct the past in the context of Holocaust historiography