Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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I. N e w   E n t r i e s

1. Author Index

[Info] Amesberger, Helga, et al. »Introduction: Ideological Intersection of Sexualized Violence during Nazi Persecution.« I haven’t even told my mother: Children as victims of sexual and sexualised violence in the Second World War and its aftermath. Edited by Helga Amesberger et al. Salzburg 2025: 9-17.

[Info] Ariel, Yaakov. »The pain that did not speak its name: Sexualized violence on children during the Holocaust years.« I haven’t even told my mother: Children as victims of sexual and sexualised violence in the Second World War and its aftermath. Edited by Helga Amesberger et al. Salzburg 2025: 37- .

[Info] Berth, Felix, et al. »Unrechtserfahrungen von Kindern und Jugendlichen im Rahmen von Unterbringungen durch das Jugendamt der Landeshauptstadt München (1945 bis 1990).« Soziale Passagen 17 (2025): 727-732.

[Info] Biziuleviciute, Raminta. Gendered Aspects of the Soviet Deportations from Lithuania with the Case Study of the Operation 'Vesna', May 22-23, 1948. Master Thesis, Central Europan University, 2012.

[Info] Caspari, Peter, et al. Wissenschaftliche Aufarbeitung sexualisierter Gewalt in der Deutschen Franziskanerprovinz: Abschlussbericht. Munich 2026.

[Info] Cooper, Tiarra. »Women's Experiences of Forcible Sterilization under the Nazi Regime, 1933–1945.« German Studies Review 46 (2023): 141-143.

[Info] Flaschka, Monika J. »He no longer deserves the right to wear the uniform of a German soldier: Child abuse and the creation of the German soldier, 1933–1945.« I haven’t even told my mother: Children as victims of sexual and sexualised violence in the Second World War and its aftermath. Edited by Helga Amesberger et al. Salzburg 2025: 19- .

[Info] Haslbeck, Barbara. Sexueller Missbrauch an Ordensfrauen im deutschsprachigen Raum: Ein unterschätztes Phänomen und seine systemischen Bedingungen. Freiburg 2025.

[Info] Horowitz, Sara R. »Unsettled accounts: Sexualized memories of child survivors in the Shoah.« I haven’t even told my mother: Children as victims of sexual and sexualised violence in the Second World War and its aftermath. Edited by Helga Amesberger et al. Salzburg 2025: 51- .

[Info] Jones, William R. »Sexual violence against male children and adolescents in the concentration camps.« I haven’t even told my mother: Children as victims of sexual and sexualised violence in the Second World War and its aftermath. Edited by Helga Amesberger et al. Salzburg 2025: 69- .

[Info] Kato, Nao. »Closing the Gate: The Asia-Pacific War and Japanese Television Documentaries (1990-2001).« 聖心女子大学大学院論集 47 (2025): 126-154.

[Info] Kozlovsky Golan, Yvonne. »Revolutionizing testimony that preserves the memory of child sexual exploitation during the Holocaust.« I haven’t even told my mother: Children as victims of sexual and sexualised violence in the Second World War and its aftermath. Edited by Helga Amesberger et al. Salzburg 2025: 179-198.

[Info] Lanz, Jonathan. »I behaved like a careful virgin: Male recollections of sexualized violence in Birkenau and Mauthausen.« I haven’t even told my mother: Children as victims of sexual and sexualised violence in the Second World War and its aftermath. Edited by Helga Amesberger et al. Salzburg 2025: 91- .

[Info] Madziyauswa, Tafirenyika. Landscapes of Violence, Galleries of Crime: Gender Violence in Selected Post-Apartheid Crime Novels Written by Women. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2022.

[Info] Maznick, Tiarra. »Revisiting the Sterilizations at Ravensbrück Concentration Camp: A Victim-Based History.« Eastern European Holocaust Studies 3 (2025): 247-286.

[Info] Meier, Verena. »Forced sterilization of underage Sinti: (Non-)recognition as Victims of Fascism and their role in the judicial prosecution of medical professionals in East Germany after 1945.« I haven’t even told my mother: Children as victims of sexual and sexualised violence in the Second World War and its aftermath. Edited by Helga Amesberger et al. Salzburg 2025: 159–178.

[Info] Murray, Jessica. »Gender and Violence in Cape Slave Narratives and Post-Narratives.« South African Historical Journal 62 (2010): 444-462.

[Info] Nagy, Victoria. »Laughing At Male Rape: Men’s Prison Sexual Victimisation in Film and Television.« Routledge Companion to Gender, Violence & Popular Culture. Edited by Susan Berridge et al. London (forthcoming).

[Info] Nešťáková, Denisa. »Our little ones were raped: Child sexual abuse in Sereď camp.« I haven’t even told my mother: Children as victims of sexual and sexualised violence in the Second World War and its aftermath. Edited by Helga Amesberger et al. Salzburg 2025: 107- .

[Info] Nešťáková, Denisa. »Intimacy as Survival: Ambiguous Gendered Strategies in Sereď Camp.« Eastern European Holocaust Studies 3 (2025): 347–370.

[Info] Priesching, Nicole, et al. Sexuelle Gewalt an Minderjährigen im Erzbistum Paderborn: Eine historische Untersuchung (1941–2002). Paderborn 2026.

[Info] Rauschenberger, Joey. »Forced sterilization of underage Sinti and the struggle for compensation.« I haven’t even told my mother: Children as victims of sexual and sexualised violence in the Second World War and its aftermath. Edited by Helga Amesberger et al. Salzburg 2025: 141-158.

[Info] Ştefan, Olga. »“Real Comrades in Struggle and Suffering”: Women’s Experiences in the Vapniarka Concentration Camp.« Eastern European Holocaust Studies 3 (2025): 287–319.

[Info] Steinert, Johannes-Dieter. »He raped me again and again: Jewish forced child laborers as victims of sexual and sexualized violence.« I haven’t even told my mother: Children as victims of sexual and sexualised violence in the Second World War and its aftermath. Edited by Helga Amesberger et al. Salzburg 2025: 123- .

[Info] Wasiak, Katarzyna. »Raped Life: Sexual Violence as a Forward-Looking War Practice: Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina.« Historia i Polityka No. 34 (2020): 127-146.


2. Speaker Index

[Info] Davies, Catherine. »Der lange Weg zur sexuellen Selbstbestimmung.« Hörsaal. Deutschlandfunk Nova 2026.

[Info] Davoliūtė, Violeta. »The (Un)silencing of Sexual Violence and the Politics of the Past in Lithuania: A Tale of Two Diaries.« Travels Beyond the Holocaust: Memorialization, Musealization and Representation of Atrocities in Global Dialogue. Vienna 2024.

[Info] Dziuban, Zuzanna, et al, org. Travels Beyond the Holocaust: Memorialization, Musealization and Representation of Atrocities in Global Dialogue. Vienna 2024.

[Info] Eglitis, Daina S. »Displacement and Danger: Women in the Nazi Ghettoes of Eastern Europe.« 24th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalitie. New York 2019.

[Info] Liu, Qiong, chair. »After Silence: Gender-Based Violence and Feminist Resistance across Asia.« 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. New York 2025.

[Info] Liu, Qiong. »Whose Rape Matters? The Politics of Sexual Violence in Communist China.« Asia@Noon series / AsiaTalks series. New York 2025.



II. R e v i s e d   E n t r i e s

1. Author Index

[Info] Amesberger, Helga, et al., eds. I haven’t even told my mother: Children as victims of sexual and sexualised violence in the Second World War and its aftermath. Salzburg 2025.

[Info] Davies, Hannah C. Rechtsstaat und Patriarchat: Eine Geschichte sexueller Gewalt in der Bundesrepublik 1973 bis 1997. Hamburg 2025.

[Info] Letz, Carmen. »Gewalt an Frauen in Deutsch-Südwestafrika: Realität und Fiktion der kolonialen Vergangenheit in historischen Romanen.« Acta Germanica 53 (2025): 26-36.

[Info] Mosha, Ernesta S. Discourse analysis of gender-based violence in contemporary Kiswahili fiction: A case study of selected novels of the past three decades (1975 - 2004) and young Tanzanians’ interpretations. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Waikato, 2013.


2. Speaker Index

[Info] Davies, Hannah C. »Rechtsstaat und Patriarchat: Eine Geschichte sexueller Gewalt in der Bundesrepublik, 1973 bis 1997.« Institutskolloquium des Leibniz-Zentrums für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam. Potsdam 2026.

[Info] Davoliūtė, Violeta. »Sexual Violence in the Accounts of Ethnic Lithuanians and Jews Deported in June 1941.« 51st Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. San Francisco 2019.

[Info] He, Belinda. »Rashomon, Rape, or Rethinking Cinema as Women’s Hearings?« 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. New York 2025.

[Info] Li, Lin. »Becoming Vocal: Politicizing the Voices of “Comfort Women”.« 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. New York 2025.

[Info] Liu, Qiong. »Reconceptualize Rape in Revolution: Narratives about Sexual Crimes in the Land Reform in China.« 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. New York 2025.

[Info] Zheng, Tiantian. »Sexual Violence and Unworthy Victims in Postsocialist China.« 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. New York 2025.



III. N e w   S u b d i r e c t o r i e s

1. Geographical Index

European History: Northern Europe: Latvian History



2. Topical Index

1. Prosecution: -

2. Cases: Real Offenders: Viktors Arājs | Real Incidencts: Archdiocese of Paderborn Sexual Abuse Cases, June Deportation, Operation Vesna, Order of Friars Minor Sexual Abuse Cases | Real Victims: Zelda-Rivka Heit, Estera Kverelytė

3. Types: -

4. Offenders: -

5. Victims: -

6. Society: -

7. Research: -

8. Representations: Films: Get Hard, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry | Literary Texts: National Literatures: Tanzanian Literature; Authors: Chachage Seithy L. Chachage, Hawa Jande Golakai, Jackson E. Kalindimya, Sarah Lotz, Angela Makholwa, Mohamed Suleiman Mohamed, Said Ahmed Mohamed, Ben R. Mtobwa, Daniel Mwaijega, Gabriel Ruhumbika