Author: William Ross Jones, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford

Abstract: »WILLIAM JONES’S chapter on ‘Sexual violence against male children and adolescents during the Holocaust’ is the first of two contributions to this edition that focuses entirely on male victims. It addresses two forms of sexual violence faced by men and boys in the Nazi concentration camps: exploitative sexual relationships and one-time rape. Whereas some material has been written on the former, the latter has remained elusive in scholarship as the two are often conflated. JONES differentiates between the two forms of violence, and in doing so, further uncovers the fact that victims were almost always Jewish boys or adolescents aged twenty-one or younger. The chapter therefore offers an examination of the interaction between hierarchical camp power and intersectional identity factors that help explain why Jewish youth were so susceptible to sexual violence in the camp system.« (Source: Helga Amesberger, Helga Embacher, Johannes-Dieter Steinert. »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: 15)

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