Le Genre et la Shoah

The Revue d'histoire de la Shoah examines the question of gender and aims to take stock of ongoing work in order to provide an overview of the contributions of this relatively recent approach to knowledge of the Holocaust. The notion of gender is thus apprehended as a social construction of the difference between the sexes and the power relationships that result from it.

The issue clarifies the interrelationships between actors and puts into perspective the construction of identities, from the point of view of victims as well as their persecutors and bystanders. Gender complicates familiar categories and leads us to question the roles of mothers and fathers, family, the notion of family and filiation, and sexuality in situations of genocide. The intention is not only to take into consideration the whole of Europe, but also to examine the role and the particular experience of victims, survivors, those who assisted them, resistance fighters, beneficiaries... For the evolving notion of gender applies not only to women, but also to men and trans people. Moreover, gendered relations of all kinds, whether in the context of occupation or collaboration, brought the Nazis and the populations under their control closer together.

Through the demographic and geographical dimensions, this volume explores different topics related to this issue and is organized around three themes: deportation and occupation; the experience of the camps; post-war, between justice and memory.