Boston College, in collaboration with Yad Vashem, will hold a three-day virtual seminar on remembering the experiences of women and children during the Holocaust. On each day, there will be a lecture followed by a small group conversation, with online resources available throughout the event.
July 18: Understanding Memory Construction
- “Early and Later Holocaust Survivor Testimony” with Sharon Kangisser Cohen, editor-in-chief of Yad Vashem Studies
July 19: Women’s Voices During the Holocaust
- “Jewish Women in Auschwitz-Birkenau” with Naama Shik, International School for Holocaust Studies
July 20: The Voices of Hidden Children
- “Inside the French Convent: Female Religious Life Before the Second World War” with Carmen M. Mangion, senior lecturer in history, classics and archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London
- “Letters To and From Parents of Children Hidden in Convents and Catholic Institutions in France during the Holocaust: What Do They Tell Us?” with Eliot Nidam-Orvieto, academic foreign affairs coordinator at Yad Vashem
* Registration closes on July 18th
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