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women in the Holocaust

This photo taken on August 22, 2026 shows the construction site of a business park at the site of what was once a Nazi forced labour complex in Leobersdorf, Austria. (Jure Cufer/AFP)
August 28, 2026, 11:41 am
Plans for business park atop site of former Nazi labor camp sparks anger in Austria
Activists oppose construction on grounds of Mauthausen concentration camp and Hirtenberg women’s subcamp; supermarket chain Lidl says planned store will sit on adjacent land
By Femke COLBORNE
A battered and bloody Jewish woman, reimagined in artist Lauren Bergman's 'Sunflowers and Butterflies,' is chased by locals, including children and adolescents wielding clubs, during the Lviv pogrom of 1941. (Public domain/ Courtesy of the Dr. David M. Milch Foundation)
October 24, 2023, 2:57 pm
Brandeis exhibit on women in the Holocaust holds chilling parallels to Israel today
On display through Oct. 25 before heading to Miami and Mexico, ‘Lives Eliminated, Dreams Illuminated’ imagines a better future for female victims through art and music
By Rich Tenorio
Women pronounced fit for labor from the Tet Ghetto in Hungary standing on the platform after a selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944. (Anonymous, possibly SS photographers E. Hoffmann & B. Walter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
November 17, 2022, 11:30 am
Study suggests Nazis attempted to sterilize Jewish women in camps with food additive
New research finds it likely wasn’t just trauma and starvation that caused 98% of women to stop menstruating upon arrival at Auschwitz, and many to later struggle with infertility
By Renee Ghert-Zand
From left: Renia Kukiełka in Budapest, 1944. (Courtesy of Merav Waldman); Tosia Altman (Courtesy of Moreshet, Hashomer Hatzair Archives); Courier Hela Schüpper (left) and Akiva leader Shoshana Langer disguised as Christians on the Aryan side of Warsaw, June 26, 1943. (Courtesy of Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, Photo Archive)
April 7, 2021, 3:08 am
Smuggler, fighter, courier, spy: How Jewish women defied the Nazis in Poland
In ‘The Light of Days,’ author Judy Batalion tells the extraordinary tale of myriad brave females who took leading roles in clandestine, armed struggle in ghettos and forests
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Franci Rabinek Epstein and daughter Helen Epstein, New York, c. 1950s. (Courtesy of Helen Epstein)
October 10, 2020, 9:24 am
Sexually explicit memoir of women’s abuse in Nazi camps finally sees light
Second-generation trauma expert Helen Epstein publishes late mother Franci Rabinek Epstein’s manuscript, initially rejected in mid-1970s for being ahead of its time
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Eva Schloss, center, listens to Charlene Metoyer, a board member of the Newport-Mesa Unified School District during a news conference Thursday, March 7, 2019, in Newport Beach, California. Schloss has met with Southern California high school students who were photographed giving Nazi salutes around a swastika formed by drinking cups at a party. Schloss says the students apologized for their behavior and indicated they didn't realize what it really meant. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
May 2, 2019, 4:46 pm
Fearing for youth, three Auschwitz survivors say they won’t ever stop testifying
A mission to spread eye-witness accounts of the horrors endured under the Nazis has not slowed as the trio approach age 90 — in fact, speaking out is more important than ever
By Nadine Wojakovski
Forged papers of Zivia Lubetkin. (Courtesy Agnes Grunwald-Spier)
April 21, 2018, 4:49 am
Women’s experience in Holocaust is focus of new book by survivor turned scholar
On the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, British Agnes Grunwald-Spier calls attention to the women who fought to help the Jewish people survive
By Rich Tenorio
Genia Dvorkin, wearing her prison garb from the labor camps in Estonia and Germany. (Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection)
March 8, 2018, 6:03 am
On International Women’s Day, Yad Vashem launches two female-focused exhibits
Israel’s Holocaust museum has two new online collections built around the unique experience of Jewish women in the Holocaust
By Tracy Frydberg
Liberation of children from Auschwitz-Birkenau. (HistClo.com)
January 30, 2018, 12:42 am
Ultra-Orthodox paper slammed for blurring out women in Auschwitz photo
Mishpacha English-language weekly, accused of ‘erasing memory’ of female Holocaust victims, says it is a ‘regrettable mistake’
By Michael Bachner
Anne-Marie O'Connor, left, and Ora Ahimeir, just prior to a discussion as part of the Personal Pages: Meet the Authors series at the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem's Old City, May 15, 2017. (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)
May 16, 2017, 2:59 pm
At TOI event, bestselling authors present true stories of women of valor
Writers Anne-Marie O’Connor and Ora Ahimeir tackle women’s resilience during genocide in discussion at Jerusalem’s Tower of David Museum
By Yaakov Schwartz
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