On Fri, 4 Nov 1994, deborah ruth fenichel wrote:
 
> The following came up on another list which has also brought up the
> recent Ms. magazine article about women's holocaust experiences.  Thought
> it might be of interest to those who brought up the topic here.
>
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> The USHMM does not, itis true, present the Shoah from a woman's
> perspective, but Dworkin, I believe, misleads us in her Ms. article.
> Women's experiences are NOT absent in the videos, the oral histories, and
> the audio tapes.  They aren't invisible; there is simply a basic
> insensitivity in seeing women qua women.  And there will probably be
> correctives, eventually.
>
> We can't "excuse" the insensitivity to women, but with Sybil Milton, JOan
> Ringelheim, and several men who support women's issues in the Research
> Institute, it is unlikely that women's experiences will continue to be
> lumped with the men's....
>
> Just trying to balance this discussion.
>
> Myrna Goldenberg     [log in to unmask]
> Potomac, MD 20854
>
>
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     Am I the only person in this newsgroup who's horrified and disgusted
by this incredibly unhuman nitpicking over whether the Holocaust Memorial
Museum gives sufficient attention to the "woman's perspective" on the
Holocaust? We are not talking about the subtle undermining of the egos
and aspirations of female children, nor about insufficient women's
toilets on the freight cars to the death camps, we are talking about
*mass murder* applied with machinelike efficiency and utter
evenhandedness to entire populations without regard to gender.
    Is there no survivor on this net who can bring some moral authority
into this abominable excess of academicity?
    Shall we go on into hairsplitting about how women and children had it
easier on the whole in most death camps because they generally went
straight to the
gas chambers, while many of the men were worked, starved and beaten to
death?
     G*d Almighty, Children: We are talking about h-u-m-a-n b-e-i-n-g-s!
 
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