Sarah Cushman, Director of the Holocaust Educational Foundation at Northwestern University, will present a lecture titled "Women in the Holocaust - Current Scholarship in the Field" on Thursday, August 28, 2025. It will be held in the Ubuntu Room of the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center at 7:00 pm and is open to the public.
Studies of women’s experiences as perpetrators, victims, and bystanders during the Nazi era have proliferated over the past 40 years. Yet, this scholarship remains relatively unknown in the general public, and sometimes among scholars as well.
This lecture will provide an overview of the impact of Nazi policies on various groups of women in Nazi-occupied and -allied Europe, including women/girls with disabilities, Romani Women, lesbians, and Jewish women. Regarding Jewish women, we will look at Jewish women’s lives in ghettos, in hiding, and in resistance groups. Cushman will explore the historiography and some of the results and directions of current scholarship.
