Women and the Holocaust

Catalog description

This course explores topics related to women’s experiences during the Holocaust from an interdisciplinary approach. Through the study of primary sources, online archives, literary texts, and artistic representations, students will gain a multifaceted perspective of this topic. This course aims to present the diverse experiences of women’s lives in the ghettos, concentration camps, death camps, in hiding, and in resistance. Students will gain a broader understanding of the Holocaust and mass killings by learning about the first-hand experiences of Jewish, Roma-Sinti, and other “undesirable” women. The aim of this course is to address deeper questions of how the Third Reich, the war, and the Holocaust affected the lives of women differently from the lives of men.