Friday, 13 September 2024
10:00 Reception
10:30–11:00 Introduction & Welcome Speeches by the Organizers
11:00–13:00 Panel 1: Gendered Violence and Persecution
(Chair: Lily Zamir, Israel)
Anca Diana Axinia: Gender and the Representation of Violence in the Bucharest Pogrom (January 21-23, 1941) (Italy)
Daina Eglitis: “Why did Hitler kill everybody and you’re not dead?”: Victimization of Jewish Women Survivors in Soviet Filtration Camps (USA)
Danielle Wirsansky: Gendered Persecution: Women Agents of the Special Operations Executive in Nazi Concentration Camps (USA)
Verena Meier: Spaces of Resistance of Sinti and Roma Women during the Nazi Persecution (Germany)
13:00–14:00 Lunch Break
14:00–15:30 Panel 2: Stigmatization and Repression of Women and their Bodies in Camps
(Chair: Elisa Frei, Austria)
Britta Geschwind: From Ravensbrück to Refugee Camp in Sweden: Female Survivors, Venereal Disease, and Sexual Stigma (Sweden)
Rieke Schröder: Bad Blood. Exploring the Ambiguous Role of Menstruation in Nazi Concentration Camps (Denmark)
Felicitas Pock: Clandestine Abortions in National-Socialist Concentration Camps (Austria)
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–18:00 Guided Tours through the Mauthausen Memorial
18:00 Short Break
18:15 Departure to Linz by Bus
20:00 Screening of Film Ostatni Etap (“The Last Stage”, PL 1948) at the Moviemento Cinema in Linz
Saturday, 14 September 2024
9:00–10:45 Panel 3: Methods of Survival
(Chair: Carol Rittner, USA)
Julia Fröhlich: Fleeing One’s Home, Fighting for Survival: Female Greek-Jewish Refugees and their Exodus Across the Aegean (1943-1944) as a Display of Female Agency, Transgression and Resistance (Austria)
Katherine Funk: “He saved my life:” Women’s Descriptions of Survival and Survival Strategies in Sobibór Death Camp (United Kingdom)
Marta Pawlińska: “I put fingers in my mouth and stared at the ceiling”, Performative Strategies of Polish Jewish Women on “Aryan papers” employed as Domestic Servants in German Households (Poland)
Olga Stefan: Real Comrades in Struggle and Suffering: The Women of Vapniarka (Switzerland)
10:45–11:00 Short coffee break
11:00–12:30 Panel 4: Forced Labor and Sexualized Violence Against Women at Mauthausen Concentration Camp
(Chair: Gregor Holzinger, Austria)
Silke Umdasch: Sexualized Violence against Women in Mauthausen Concentration Camp (Austria)
Randi Becker: Intersectional Persecution: The Story of Franziska W. (Germany)
Olga Ungar: Challenging Traditional Roles: Jewish Female Deportees from Bačka in Austria, 1944-1945 (Israel)
12:30–13:15 Lunch break
13:15–15.00 Panel 5: Female Resistance Against the NS-Regime
(Chair: Rebecca Rose, USA)
Caroline Francois: The Participation of Nuns in the Resistance (France)
Sylwia Szymańska-Smolkin: Heroines of the Białystok Ghetto: The Significance of Integrating Female Narratives into the History of Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust (Sweden)
Mechthild Gilzmer: Resistance at the Margins. Women from the French Colonies (Germany)
Gil Faran: Female Prisoners Escape from Auschwitz (Israel)
15:00–15:30 Coffee break
15:30–16:30 Panel 6: Female Profiteers of the NS
(Chair: Verena Meier, Germany)
Judith Vöcker: “Ordinary women” or Female Perpetrators? The German Female Employees in German Courts in Nazi Occupied Poland (1939-1944) (Sweden)
Lisa M. Gottschall: The Role of Female Scientists in Propagating “Völkisch” Paradigms: Academic Engagement, Career Paths, and Self-Perceptions (Austria)
17:00 End of Conference