{"product_id":"the-weavers-of-trautenau-jewish-female-forced-labor-in-the-holocaust-9781684581696","title":"The Weavers of Trautenau – Jewish Female Forced","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sympathetic history that focuses on the experiences of women and girls during the Holocaust and draws on new archival sources.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Beginning in late 1940, over three thousand Jewish girls and young women were forced from their family homes in Sosnowiec, Poland, and its surrounding towns to worksites in Germany. Believing that they were helping their families to survive, these young people were thrust into a world where they labored at textile work for twelve hours a day, lived in barracks with little food, and received only periodic news of events back home. By late 1943, their barracks had been transformed into concentration camps, where they were held until liberation in 1945.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Using a fresh approach to testimony collections, Janine P. Holc reconstructs the forced labor experiences of young Jewish females, as told by the women who survived and shared their testimony. Incorporating new source material, the book carefully constructs survivors’ stories while also taking a theoretical approach, one alert to socially constructed, intersectional systems of exploitation and harm. \u003ci\u003eThe Weavers of Trautenau\u003c\/i\u003e elucidates the limits and possibilities of social relations inside camps and the challenges of moral and emotional repair in the face of indescribable loss during the Holocaust.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Holc has made the voices of testimony‑givers matter in wholly new ways.” -- Dagmar Herzog, City University of New York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaps \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter One: Jewish Girlhood and Jewish Survival in Zaglebie \u003cbr\u003eChapter Two: The Local Logics of Labor Exploitation \u003cbr\u003eChapter Three: The Social World of Coerced Labor \u003cbr\u003eChapter Four: The Conflicted Pathway to Survival: A Study of Three Peripheral Camps\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five: Auschwitz Comes to the Camps in Trautenau \u003cbr\u003eChapter Six: Ethics of Care and Prisoner Society \u003cbr\u003eChapter Seven: Desire and Space in the Coerced Labor Experience \u003cbr\u003eChapter Eight: The Violence and Losses of Liberation \u003cbr\u003eChapter Nine: Conclusion and Coda \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eEndnotes\u003cbr\u003eList of Testimony-givers\u003cbr\u003eArchives\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Brandeis University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51535416721751,"sku":"9781684581696","price":91.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781684581696.jpg?v=1755861342","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-weavers-of-trautenau-jewish-female-forced-labor-in-the-holocaust-9781684581696","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}