Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Role of Gender in the Holocaust / Lenore J. Weitzman, Dalia Ofer -- Before the War -- Gender and the Jewish Family in Modern Europe / Paula E. Hyman -- Keeping Calm and Weathering the Storm: Jewish Women's Responses to Daily Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939 / Marion Kaplan -- The Missing 52 Percent: Research on Jewish Women in Interwar Poland and Its Implications for Holocaust Studies / Gershon Bacon -- Women in the Jewish Labor Bund in Interwar Poland / Daniel Blatman -- Ordinary Women in Nazi Germany: Perpetrators, Victims, Followers, and Bystanders / Gisela Bock -- Life in the Ghettos -- The Grodno Ghetto and Its Underground: A Personal Narrative / Liza Chapnik -- The Key Game / Ida Fink -- The Status and Plight of Women in the Lodz Ghetto / Michal Unger -- Gender Issues in Diaries and Testimonies of the Ghetto: The Case of Warsaw / Dalia Ofer -- Resistance and Rescue -- In the Ghetto and in the Resistance: A Personal Narrative / Bronka Klibanski -- Living on the Aryan Side in Poland: Gender, Passing, and the Nature of Resistance / Lenore J. Weitzman -- Women among the Forest Partisans / Nechama Tec -- Women in the French-Jewish Underground: Shield-Bearers of the Resistance? / Renee Poznanski -- Gisi Fleischmann / Yehuda Bauer -- Labor Camps and Concentration Camps -- One Year in the Black Hole of Our Planet Earth: A Personal Narrative / Lidia Rosenfeld Vago -- Women in the Forced-Labor Camps / Felicja Karay -- Women in Theresienstadt and the Family Camp in Birkenau / Ruth Bondy.