Author: Jonathan Lanz, Afdeling for Historie og Klassiske Studier (Department of History and Classical Studies), Aarhus Universitet (University of Aarhus) - ORCID

Abstract: »The second analysis of male victims was contributed by JONATHAN LANZ. His chapter on ‘Male recollections of sexuality and violence in Birkenau’ examines recollections of sexuality and violence among a group of young male prisoners known as the ‘Birkenau Boys.’ The contribution centers on a micro-level analysis of the boys’ memories of gender and sexual identities during summer 1944. Additionally, LANZ addresses questions of sexualized violence and barter in the boys’ social lives, emphasizing the often-contradictory ways in which they coped with this extreme form of physical and emotional exploitation. The analysis concludes with a theoretical discussion of sexual violence against boys during the Holocaust, and the ways in which children’s histories of abuse call for novel methodological approaches to writing the history of sexual violence against Jewish boys during the Holocaust.« (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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