Mauthausen Memorial and Women in the Holocaust (WHISC) at Moreshet Mordechai Anielevich Memorial Holocaust Study and Research Center, Givat Haviva (Web)

Time: 13.-14.09.2024
Venue: Visitor Center of the Mauthausen Memorial
Registration by: 05.09.2024

Programme (Web)

Panels: Gendered Violence and Persecution | Stigmatization and Repression of Women and their Bodies in Camps | Methods of Survival | Forced Labor and Sexualized Violence Against Women | Female Resistance Against the NS-Regime | Female Profiteers of the NS

Screening of Film Ostatni Etap („The Last Stage“, PL 1948) at the Moviemento Cinema in Linz

Guided Tours through the Mauthausen Memorial

The Women in the Holocaust conference will be held in Austria, a country which was already part of the German Reich at the beginning of World War II. It was the home of prominent perpetrators of the Holocaust such as Adolf Eichmann, Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Franz Stangl – all of them being born in Upper Austria, where, as Gauleiter August Eigruber happily announced, the Mauthausen concentration camp was installed in 1938. Having one of the toughest camp conditions in the Reich, Mauthausen, its branch camp Gusen and their over 40 subcamps became the mass grave of at least 90.000 prisoners. In total, around 190.000 persons were imprisoned in the camp complex from 1938 until 1945, approximately 10.000 being female.
WHISC is the only comprehensive study center that focuses on the study of the fate of women – Jewish and non-Jewish – in the Holocaust in a multidisciplinary manner. Read more … (Web)

Source: H-Soz-Kult