10011 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1Ĭontents Acknowledgments A Note to Our Readers Right and left (Political science)- Addresses, essays, lectures. Germany- Politics and government-1933-1945-Addresses, essays, lectures. Germany-Politics and government- 1918-1933-Addresses, essays, lectures. Women-Germany-History-20th century-Addresses, essays, lectures. H er art work is preserved in the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam.Ĭopyright © 1984 by Renate Bridenthal, Atina Grossmann, and Marion Kaplan All rights reserved Library o f Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: When biology became destiny: Bibliography: p. When she finished, she entrusted her work to a French neighbor, saying “C’est toute ma vie.” She was deported to Auschwitz where she died in 1943. There she created 769 paintings depicting the story of her life, her longings, anxieties, and despair.
A serious student at the Berlin art academy, she was forced to flee Nazi Germany in 1939 to live with her grandparents in southern France. Charlotte Salomon was a Jewish woman bom in Berlin in 1917. It is from Charlotte: Life or Theater? An Autobiographical Flay by Charlotte Salomon, translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz, introduced by Judith Herzberg (New York, 1981). The painting on the jacket is reprinted with the permission of the Viking Press. When Biology Became Destiny W om en in W eim ar an d Nazi G erm any Edited by Renate Bridenthal, Atina Grossmann, and Marion Kaplan Women and the Holocaust: The Case of Gemían and German-Jewish Women Racism and Sexism in Nazi Germany: Motherhood, Compulsory Sterilization, and the State The Creation of a Female Assembly-Line Proletariat The Competition for a Women’s Lebensraum, 1928-1934 Sisterhood under Siege: Feminism and Anti-Semitism in Germany, 1904-1938 “Professional” Housewives: Stepsisters of the Women’s Movement Helene Stöcker: Left-Wing Intellectual and Sex Reformer Introduction Women in Weimar and Nazi Germanyīeyond Kinder, Küche, Kirche: Weimar Women in Politics and WorkĪbortion and Economic Crisis: The 1931 Campaign Against Paragraph 218