I'm amazed by how well this book was written and how well it was researched. Few people know what had gone on and what a painful experience it was for these women. Even though some women had survived these events, they did not completely heal. This is a very important read.

Alice Ginsburg, Holocaust Survivor

Ruth Jolanda Weinberger is among the first historians to systematically investigate fertility abuses in National Socialist concentration camps, drawing on exclusive access to sensitive and intimate compensation claim materials. Positioned as a historian attentive to the ethics of care, she places female survivors at the center of her analysis, reading against the grain of archival sources that indirectly document sexual and sexualized violence against Jewish women during the Holocaust. Her serious engagement with the highly contested issue of camp-induced amenorrhea, which survivors have attributed for decades to bromide exposure, opens an important academic discussion beyond dismissive claims that such testimonies constitute mere gossip, recognizing how seemingly marginal forms of historical knowledge can reveal neglected experiences and histories.

Alexandra Szabo, Randolph and Elizabeth Braham Fellow, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, USA