Wednesday, April 3 • 5:30 PM ET
Alumni Center Pavilion, Boston Campus
716 Columbus Ave, 6th Floor
Exploring the testimonies of women survivors and those who did not survive the Holocaust reveals that even under extreme conditions, gender is an important arbiter of experience. While men and women were both sentenced to the same fate, gender nevertheless operated as a crucial signifier for survival.
Zoë Waxman is a Professor of Holocaust History at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Writing the Holocaust: memory, testimony, representation (2006), Anne Frank (2015), and Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist History (2017), as well as numerous articles relating to the Holocaust and genocide.
