Yom HaShoah Shabbat: Women in the Holocaust

What were the experiences unique to women during the Holocaust? What were the different skills, knowledge and expertise that enabled some Jewish women to survive? Were there differences in the nature of the harassment, work requirements, that the Nazis imposed on Jewish men and women? Why do some historians object to studying the Holocaust through the lens of gender? These questions will be discussed based on historical research and survivor testimonies.

Shirley Ranz, a founding member of The City Congregation, is a child of Holocaust survivors, Nitzah Bilard and Jochanan (John) Ranz, author of Inhumanity: Death March to Buchenwald, and founder of The Generation After/ Holocaust Survivors USA. She volunteers as a docent at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, a Living Memorial to the Holocaust, where she educates students ages 11-18 about the Holocaust.

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