Des femmes allemandes au service de la guerre : participations actives aux politiques raciales nationales-socialistes, à la déportation et au génocide (1939-1945) by Elissa Mailänder

“…The context of the war and National Socialist policies of race and colonization are elements of primordial importance, which radically modified the relationship between the sexes in occupied Poland (General Government). In the regime’s aggressive policies of conquest and persecution, the social role of “Aryan” women was important, because of their active support for the regime and the great power of action at their disposal. …”
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Americanizations of Holocaust Memory and Museum Aesthetic Experience by Karolina Krasuska

“…The article interprets an emblematic segment of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibition, The Tower of Faces and the installation on the 1941-2 pogroms in Nazi-occupied Poland in the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews to compare the aesthetic experience of these examples of Holocaust memorialization. …”
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Building through the flames: Polish-Jewish architects and their networks, 1937–1945 by Emily Roche

“…The start of the Second World War and the German occupation in 1939 strained professional architectural networks but led to the formation of underground workshops, cooperatives, and other groups, whose connections extended from Warsaw through the camps and ghettos of occupied Poland. This article presents the history of Jewish-Polish architects from 1937 to 1945. …”
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