WHISC - Women in the Holocaust - International Study Center

WHISC is the only comprehensive International Study Center devoted to Women in the Holocaust.  

Our vision is to widen the interdisciplinary, intersectional, and multicultural research that is being done separately in Holocaust Studies and Gender Studies, by focusing on the unique fate of women during the Holocaust. This covers women who were victims, survivors, rescuers, resisters, bystanders, or perpetrators. 

Our activities aim to bring together and enhance the work of Israeli and international researchers and educators, from academia to high school, in academic conferences, research workshops, fellowships, and database management.

Our pioneering center will house an extensive archive for researchers and be a premier source of innovative educational materials.

Women in the Resistance
06/01/2025

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

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Women's Spaces of Existence: Gendered Everyday Perspectives on the Holocaust
23/11/2024

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.

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Call for Submissions – Scholarships for Outstanding Doctoral Students – Academic Year 2025
11/12/2024

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.

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Women as Saviors - Non Jewish Women who saved Jews - Panel 2
09/10/2024

"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

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Second International Conference on Women in the Holocaust
22/09/2024

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.

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Women as Saviors 웃웃
11/08/2024

jewish women who saved jews (panel I )

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Women in KL Auschwitz | Virtual Lecture | by Dr. Teresa Wontor Cichy, Research Center, Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau
05/06/2024

'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

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Women Voices From Auschwitz (Panel II)
19/05/2024

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

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Zoom event commemorating the International Holocaust Remembrance Day
02/01/2024

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

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