Women in European Holocaust Films: Perpetrators, Victims and Resisters

1. Introduction.- 2. Part I Women and the Holocaust: The Silenced Gender? 2. The Silenced Gender Paradigm.- 3 Breaking the Silence on Women Perpetrators.- 4. Idealised or Ignored: Female Victims of the Holocaust.- 5. Invisible Resistance: Women's Contribution.- 6. Part II The Cinematic Representation of Women as Perpetrators and Accomplices of Nazism 6. Violent, Erotic, Brainwashed: Stereotypes of Female Perpetrators in Holocaust: Films between 1945 and 2000.- 7. Uneven Representations: Complex Men and Poorly Drawn Women.- 8. "Ordinary Women" as Perpetrators in 21^st Century Holocaust Cinema.- 9. Part III Female Victims in Holocaust Films: From Universalised Portrayals to Recovered Memory 9. Universalised Victims: Jewish Women in Early Holocaust Films.- 10. The Jewish Woman as Epitome of Holocaust Victimhood in the 1960s.- 11. Newcomers to Holocaust Cinema: Women in Crisis, Second Generation, Sexual Abuse and Other Victims of Persecution.- 12. The Trauma of (Post)Memory: Women's Memories in the Holocaust Cinema of the New Millennium.- 13. Part IV Gendering Heroism: The Role of Women in Filmic Discourses About Resistance 13. Patriarchal Perspectives on Jewish Female Heroism.- 14. The Role of Heroines in Coming to Terms with the Past in Germany and France.- 15. Gendered Disparities in the Portrayal of Rescuers.- 16. Conclusion.