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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.