24–25 February 2025 (workshop part 1: online)
Monday, 24 February 2025 1.30 – 6.15 pm CET / 2.30 – 7.15 pm IST / 7.30 am – 1.15 pm EST
1.30 – 2.00 pm CET WELCOME (Organizing Committee)
2.00 – 3.30 pm Panel 1: Strategies of Survival
Adél Nagy (Holocaust Memorial Center Budapest | Eötvös Lóránd University): Hungarian Women’s Experiences during the Holocaust, from Deportation to Return, Focusing on Aspects of Survival
Alessandro Matta (Association Memoriale Sardo della Shoah): Sardinian Jewish Women during the Holocaust: Spaces of Survival and Resistance
Dragana Stojanović (University of Belgrade): Everyday Perspectives of the Women Surviving the Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Galyna Kutsovska (Uppsala University): “I do not care what you do. Just live!”: Survival, Resilience, and Agency of Jewish Families and Women during the Holocaust in Kharkiv
3.30 – 3.45 pm Refreshment Break
3.45 – 5.00 pm Panel 2: Resilience
Anca Diana Axinia (USHMM): After the Pogrom: Practices and Spaces of Everyday Life in the Jewish Community of Bucharest (1941–1944)
Ayana Sassoon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Food, Eating and Identity Among Jewish Women in Germany and the Netherlands During the Holocaust
Katarzyna Taczyńska (Polish Academy of Sciences): Traces of Resistance: A Cultural History of Jewish Women‘s Relations in 20th-Century Croatia
5.00 – 5.15 pm Refreshment Break
5.15 – 6.15 pm Panel 3: Female Doctors
Victoria Van Orden Martinez (Lund University): A Prescription for Survival? Women Physicians’ Experiences of Surviving the Holocaust Outside the Camps
Yoel Yaari (Hebrew University School of Medicine): A Doctor in Hell: Anna Weiss and the Ethics of Survival in Auschwitz
Tuesday, 25 February 2025 2.00 – 7.00 pm CET / 3.00 – 8.00 pm IST / 8.00 am – 2.00 pm EST
2.00 – 3.30 pm Panel 4: Hiding and Rescue
Alex Scheepens (University of Wisconsin- Madison): Navigating Family and Survival: Jewish Women in Hiding During the Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands
Miriam Shenkar (Ohio State University): A Case Study of Gender in the Hungarian Cinema: Rescue and Punishment in WWII
Justina Smalkyte (USHMM | Sciences Po Paris): Facing Persecution: Jewish Women’s Agency in the First Weeks of the Holocaust
in Kaunas, Lithuania
3.30 – 3.45 pm Refreshment Break
3.45 – 5.00 pm Panel 5: Womanhood in Marginalized Groups
Alexandra Natoli (University of Southern Indiana): “Her own little world:” Women’s Memories of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Latrines
Joanne Weiner Rudof (Yale University): Myths of Menstruation in Concentration Camps
Aliena Stürzer (Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück | Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten): Marginalized groups, Including ”Asocial” Women in Ravensbrück
5.00 – 5.45 pm Breakout rooms to form working groups
5.45 – 6.00 pm Refreshment Break
6.00 – 7.00 pm Presentations of working groups and farewell
4–6 May 2026 (workshop part 2: in person at the University of Graz)