Can We Talk About Rape In The Holocaust Yet?

https://forward.com/opinion/399538/can-we-talk-about-rape-in-the-holocaust-yet/

“We did not ask them,” Saidel says. “You didn’t do that then. And they did not volunteer it except maybe once in a while by accident. In the early years, we had too much compassion to ask them.”

And even when a younger generation of researchers did start asking, rape and sexual violence seemed haphazard, and rare. But now, Saidel knows better.

“I really believe that almost every Jewish woman who went through the Holocaust was to some degree at least sexually humiliated, and going all the way to rape,” she says.