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The Second International Conference on Women in the Holocaust has concluded. This year, the conference took place in Austria in cooperation with the Mauthausen Memorial Center. The first panels addressed issues related to gender-specific violence and persecution, as well as the stigmatization and oppression of women and their bodies in the camps.

jewish women who saved jews (panel I )

'The very first concentration camp for women in the Nazi Germany was set up in autumn 1933 in the city of Moringen […]. In May 1939, KL Lichtenberg became the central concentration camp for women. Afterwards female prisoners were relocated to the new concentration camp for women in Ravensbrück. Until 1942 Ravensbrück was the only concentration camp for women […]. It was necessary to establish a camp for women in Auschwitz as other camps located within the territory of the Third Reich, and the occupied countries (in particular Poland) were overcrowded, and number of prisoners of the Ravensbrück camp increased

Women in KL Auschwitz || Nazi Female Supervisors and Functionaries in Auschwitz || Women Escapes from Auschwitz: "Every Escape from Auschwitz was Amazing," Yehuda Bauer

We are pleased to invite you to hear the recorded lectures of our Zoom event commemorating the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

We members of WHISC – Women in the Holocaust International Study Center – condemn the vicious Gender Based Violence (GBV) perpetrated by Hamas on women and men, including the elderly and young people, girls and boys during their vicious massacre in Israel on 7 October 2023.

On the morning of October 9th, we left Israel, heavy-hearted and with mixed emotions, on our way to the first WHISC – Women in the Holocaust; International Study Centre - international conference at the University of Belgrade.

WHISC - Women in the Holocaust - International Study Center, express its deep sorrow, grief, and pain for the victims of the murderous terrorist attack in the kibbutzim, villages, and cities surrounding Gaza on October 7

The Moreshet Mordechai Anielevich Memorial Holocaust Study and Research Center, Givat Haviva, Israel is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for its inaugural International Conference on Women in the Holocaust.

We are pleased to announce that on academic year 2022-2023 WHISC - Women in the Holocaust - International Study Center in Moreshet and the Claims Conference offer a doctoral fellowship to Ph.D. research students, writing a thesis on Women in the Holocaust.

The Women in the Holocaust International Study Centre (WHISC) at the Moreshet Anielevich Memorial Holocaust Study and Research Centre, Israel, invites applicants to contribute to a zoom workshop to plan teaching programs and materials focussing on women’s roles, and their fate, in the Holocaust.

WHISC is working to create a centralized database that will try to encompass as much as possible the research on women in the Holocaust. The intention is to create an internet database that will allow researchers and those interested to find in one place a large number of studies and research products in this field.