We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Holocaust survivors are angry that the concentration camp Stutthof was used for naked tag. A Polish artist filmed a group of fully naked men and women playing tag inside the gas chamber of a former Nazi death camp. And yes, you read that right. Now, groups representing Israeli Holocaust survivors are calling on Polish President Andrzej Duda, an independent, to explain how, exactly, that was allowed to happen and to condemn the movie. They appear cold, and wary, until they begin to laugh and shout. They chase each other down hallways and into closed spaces and giggle, slapping at each other. They are clearly having fun.
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Patterns of Violence
II, WW2. A shot of soldiers riding on top of a military jeep past long lines of people. A close up shot of women cheering. A shot of a man being marched down some stairs at gunpoint. A close up shot of a woman yelling angrily. A wide shot from ground level of a concentration camp. A dead body lays on the ground as people walk by. A shot of some of the people in the camp walking around aimlessly, they are disheveled and dirty and very sickly looking.
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Search below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center. Naked Jewish women, some of whom are holding infants, wait in a line before their execution by German Sipo and SD, with the assistance of Ukrainian auxiliaries. According to the Zentrale Stelle in Germany Zst. On the eve of the ghetto's liquidation 13 October , some of the inhabitants rose up against the Germans and were defeated after a short battle. The remaining members of the community were transported from the ghetto to this ravine in the Sdolbunov Gebietskommissariat, south of Rovno, where they were executed.
More ». WMC Women Under Siege investigates how sexualized violence is used as a weapon in conflict and beyond. WMC Fbomb is an intersectional teen feminist media platform created by and for socially conscious youth. WMC Climate positions the people climate change affects the most — women and people of color — front and center. WMC SheSource is an online database of media-experienced women experts who we connect to journalists, bookers and producers. Virtually unexplored until recently, sexualized violence in the Holocaust took many forms, faces, and insidious paths. Among the more than 6 million Jews killed were an unknown number of women, probably thousands, who were raped—in camps, in hiding, in ghettos. The perpetrators were Nazis, fellow Jews, and those who hid Jews.