Separate gender roles for men and women existed throughout Europe and North America in the early twentieth century, and many activities were segregated by gender. Although Nazi ideology included a belief in particularly strict and specific gender roles for men and women, the upheavals of World War II and the Holocaust challenged traditional gender roles in a number of different ways.
gender
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
"Healthy Woman - Healthy Nation"
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
"Is This Unmanly?"
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
"On the Auschwitz trial in Kraków (impressions)"
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Diary of Irene Hauser
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Diary of Saartje Wijnberg
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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
Identification Card for Gerd Katter
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter by Marketa Brady from Ravensbrück
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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
Lithograph by Richard Grune
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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
Photo Collage from a Nazi Magazine
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Photo of the Eldorado Club
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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
Police Report on Fritz Kitzing
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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
Police Statement from Margot Liu
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Recipes from the Cookbook of Eva Ostwalt
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
USHMM Oral History with Blanka Rothschild
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
USHMM Oral History with Frieda Belinfante