The Women in the Holocaust International Study Center (WHISC), Givat Haviva, in collaboration with ShoahLab – the Holocaust Studies Laboratory of the University of Belgrade, is pleased to invite proposals for the upcoming international conference

Join us for an engaging and insightful academic panel moderated by Prof. Lily Zamir, exploring the diverse ways in which women resisted oppression during the Holocaust through unarmed resistance—art, storytelling, and historical defiance.

This event will feature distinguished speakers who will delve into the complexities of gender, resistance, and historical memory:

A workshop will be held in two parts by the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Graz and the Women in the Holocaust International Study Center (WHISC), focusing on women's experiences of survival during the Holocaust, both inside and outside concentration camps. The first part will take place online in February 2025, with presentations and the formation of research groups, while the second part will occur in-person at the University of Graz in May 2026.

We are pleased to announce that on academic year 2025 WHISC - Women in the Holocaust - International Study Center in Moreshet in partnership with the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University, offers a doctoral fellowship to Ph.D. research students, writing a thesis on Women in the Holocaust.

"My world was falling apart, and I wanted to defend it" - Women Righteous Among the Nations ||| The Challenge of the Exception: Stories of Nuns - Who Helped Jews During the Holocaust ||| The Women from the Rosenstrasse

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.