La novella descrive le "Divisioni della gioia", che erano gruppi di donne ebree nei campi di concentramento durante la seconda guerra mondiale che erano tenute per il piacere sessuale dei soldati nazisti. (fonte: Google Books)

Librería 7. Estante 3.

"The gate slammed shut behind them"
By sally tarbox on 27 December 2017
Format: Kindle Edition
Very harrowing Holocaust novel, following young Polish Jew Daniela, as she's seized by the Nazis while on a school trip.
From slave labour in a ghetto, 'processing' the vast quantities of clothes brought in from their victims, Daniela finds herself on a transport to a labour camp... and ultimately to the 'Joy Division', where the prettier girls are used as state whores for the German troops - three complaints, any disease - or just losing her looks, and they are quickly killed for a new batch.
Meanwhile Daniela's beloved elder brother, Harry, has his own narrative as he moves from underfed ghetto internee to camp medic.
Written in the present continuous, the author (a Polish Jew and Auschwitz survivor, who used his number and title (Ka Tzetnik means concentration camp inmate) as a pseudonym, this conveys a sense of immediacy, almost stream of consciousness in style, though I found the last pages a tad unclear and confusing.
The subject matter has led some to dismiss this as pulp fiction or even soft porn. I can definitely say it's neither, but a generally well-written account which brings a terrible event horribly to life.

This section describes her work in the rag factory:

"A letter drops from almost every pocket today. As if the people had all been members of the same transport, or as if they had been assured that they would be permitted to write home as soon as they were brought to their destination. Rifkah sweeps the letters on to the rubbish heap. The envelopes still pulse with the life of the fingers that had sealed them.
A strange fear now hovers over the rag room. Everyone feels it. Suddenly the jacket linings begin to exude human body heat; hands fill out the sleeves; necks sprout from all collars; stomachs and legs materialize in all the trousers. Live humans fill the clothes... The strange garment reflects back at them their own doom." ( )

Remember it was shocking at the time I read it..brought home to re-read. I have the 1961 Panther edition. ( )

Probably one of the most painful Holocaust books I've ever read. Even now my heart thuds remembering. This book describes the Nazi prostitution camp; where young Jewish women were forced into sexual slavery. The girls and women who weren't chosen as prostitutes were brutalized through arduous, back-breaking physical labor.

I wish no one would have to read a book like this --- but because hate (in its many forms) still exists no matter what history teaches -- certainly reading House of Dolls will shock and appall us to stop degrading and destroying each other, and reach higher as human beings. ( )