Thinking through the silence: theorizing the rape of Jewish males during the Holocaust through survivor testimonies

Over the last several decades there has been an attempt to gender genocide by focusing on sexual as well as lethal violence during the Holocaust. While there has been tremendous consideration of women's experience of rape and sexual abuse during the Holocaust, the rape of men had not been previously engaged as a matter of study or archival investigation. This article is one of the first to study the rape of Jewish men and boys during the Holocaust through survivor testimonies and theorize the implications these testimonies of male sexual victimization have for our understanding of sexual violence and rape more broadly.