Sexual violence during the Holocaust

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During World War II and the Holocaust, Jewish men and women faced sexual violence, especially in Nazi concentration and death camps, caused by wartime discrimination, widespread antisemitism, Nazi racial theories, and the genocidal beliefs held by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime in Germany. Sexual violence and discrimination happened throughout Nazi-occupied Europe, including in Jewish people's homes and hiding spaces, as well as in public and at designated killing sites. There were more than 44,000 camps and sites for incarceration under the control of the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945. Jewish people were targets of sexual violence and segregation because of their race. The Nazis used incarceration sites for a variety of reasons, especially for the forced physical and sexual labor from their prisoners. There have been many accounts from both men and women survivors, but many stories remained private due to taboos and stigmas surrounding rape. Gender-based violence, sexual violence...

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