Women's oral documentation and autobiographies can often be pivotal factors in understanding the Holocaust from a broader perspective. By letting the survivor speak for herself she becomes a subject-and not only an object-of history.

Due to its very nature, oral history in particular, which in its purest form generates a dynamic interaction between interviewer and interviewee, can also create a positive environment for engendered and intimate discussions of otherwise taboo issues. "Women's history was first of all a history of their bodies," writes Michelle Perrot in her study of writing women's history, "and the biology imposes itself as a starting point."' However, in addition to those taboo themes pertaining directly to sexuality and reproduction, women's experiences during the Holocaust also focused upon issues which were indirectly biological and more gender oriented.

These included their roles in crafting strategies for family, group, and personal survival, their unique victimization as women and the relationship between gender and religious identity, issues of class, status, and ethnicity, just to mention a few. 

Baumel, Judith Tydor. "“You Said the Words You Wanted Me to Hear But I Heard the Words You Couldn't Bring Yourself to Say”: Women's First Person Accounts of the Holocaust." The Oral History Review 27.1 (2000): 17-56.

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