Mankind – for which, read “ men ” – are infinitely ingenious in devising means of inflicting suffering and death upon their fellow humans: at least, it was almost exclusively men until recent times. But the Holocaust – or Shoah, as I prefer to call it – opened a window into the hitherto unexplored and grisly country of female sadism, and yet, as far as one can establish, the subject has received little further attention. In the rounding up of Jews and others for deportation; on the long, deadly... Sign in to see full entry.