Sisters in Survival: Female Solidarity in the Ghettos and Concentration Camps

In honor of Yom HaShoah v' HaGevurah and the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising:

Sisters in Survival: Female Solidarity in the Ghettos and Concentration Camps

Join Wagner College Holocaust Center for a very special Yom Ha'Shoah v'Ha'Gevurah (Holocaust Remembrance and Heroism Day) program as they commemorate two remarkable women who survived the concentration camps through the love and care of female relatives. Ram Roth will speak about his mother, Rachel (Ruchama) Roth, who endured the Warsaw Ghetto and uprising, Majdanek, Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen alongside her Aunt Hela, as described in her memoir Here There Is No Why. Fern Zagor will remember her mother, Frieda (Wakschlag) Aaron, who survived the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek and two other concentration camps with her mother and sister Estelle, as described in Estelle's memoir, Transcending Darkness: A Girl's Journey Out of the Holocaust and Frieda's scholarly text Bearing the Unbearable: Yiddish and Polish Poetry in the Ghettos and Concentration Camps. Scholar Daan de Leeuw will present his research on Dutch and Polish women in the camps, "From Circle of Care to Enduring Enmity: Jewish Women in the Lublin-Majdanek Camp System."

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