Internationalist Women against Nazi Atrocities in Occupied Europe, 1941–1947

IF 0.6 3区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

Journal of Womens History Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1353/jowh.2023.0003

Sara Kimble

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Abstract:Historian Susan Zimmermann brought to scholars’ attention a 1942 protest statement issued by the Liaison Committee of Women’s International Organisations (LCWIO) in which they protested Nazi violence and abuses. Zimmermann characterized the protest statement as a “public and united stand” taken by the leading women’s organizations. The phrasing of the protest was unusual in its attention to the “extermination” and “spoliation” of the lives, culture, and property of those victimized. I analyze the significance of this women-authored anti-atrocities document in historical context using archival sources. I argue that two refugee women instigated this legally oriented protest statement and that the statement was part of a modestly larger pattern of anti-atrocities campaigns. Rather than being united, as women’s groups later claimed, evidence points to divisiveness, challenges building networks of allies to respond to war crimes, and difficulty in making themselves heard once they decided to act collectively on a gender-specific analysis of atrocities. This research bridges the fields of the history of feminism and Holocaust history.

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在被占领的欧洲反对纳粹暴行的国际主义妇女，1941-1947

摘要:历史学家苏珊·齐默尔曼(Susan Zimmermann)引起了学者们对1942年国际妇女组织联络委员会(LCWIO)发表的一份抗议声明的关注，该声明抗议纳粹的暴力和虐待。齐默尔曼将抗议声明描述为主要妇女组织采取的“公开和统一的立场”。抗议的措辞不同寻常，因为它关注的是对受害者生命、文化和财产的“灭绝”和“破坏”。我用档案资料分析了这份由女性撰写的反暴行文件在历史背景下的意义。我认为是两个难民妇女煽动了这个以法律为导向的抗议声明，而这个声明是反暴行运动的一个更大模式的一部分。事实并非如妇女组织后来所宣称的那样团结一致，而是存在分歧，建立盟友网络以应对战争罪行面临挑战，一旦她们决定集体行动，对暴行进行针对性别的分析，就很难让别人听到她们的声音。这项研究跨越了女权主义历史和大屠杀历史这两个领域。

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期刊介绍： Journal of Women"s History is the first journal devoted exclusively to the international field of women"s history. It does not attempt to impose one feminist "line" but recognizes the multiple perspectives captured by the term "feminisms." Its guiding principle is a belief that the divide between "women"s history" and "gender history" can be, and is, bridged by work on women that is sensitive to the particular historical constructions of gender that shape and are shaped by women"s experience.