MONDAY, 21.01.2019

09.15 – 10.00 OPENING AND WELCOME
Jaroslav Šúšoľ (Comenius University, Bratislava)
Andrea Löw (Institute for Contemporary History, Munich)
Jakub Drábik (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava),
Andor F. Dávid (International Visegrad Fund, Bratislava)
Moderator: Denisa Nešťáková (Comenius University, Bratislava)

10.00 – 10.30 THE EHRI-PROJECT AND ITS OFFERINGS TO RESEARCHERS
Anna Ullrich (Institute for Contemporary History, Munich)

10.30 – 11.30 KEYNOTE
Dalia Ofer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – “Will you hear my voice?” Women in the Holocaust: Memory and Analysis
Moderator: Katja Grosse-Sommer (Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg)

11.40 – 12.50 Lunch

13.00 – 14.30 PANEL 1: SHIFTING GENDER ROLES
Agnes Laba (Bergische University, Wuppertal) – Defeated Masculinities? A Gender Perspective on Everyday Life under German Occupation in France and Poland
Jaromir Mrňka (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague) – The Stereotype of “Gossipy Women” and its Role in Denunciations in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia
Marína Zavacká (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava) – Women at the Ilava Detention Camp
Moderator: Matej Ivančík (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)

14.30 – 15.00 Coffee break

15.00 – 16.30 PANEL 2: THE BODY AS A SITE OF VIOLENCE
Marta Havryshko (Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Lviv) – Rape in Hiding: Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust in Ukraine
Gergely Kunt (Central European University, Budapest / University of Miskolc) – Jewish Women as Double Victims: Narrating Rape in the Wartime Diary of a Hungarian Holocaust Survivor
Jay Geller (Vanderbilt University, Nashville) – Circumcision and Male Jewish Survival during the Holocaust
Moderator: Borbála Klacsmann (University of Szeged)

16.30 – 16.50 Coffee break

17.00 – 19.00 HAVIVA REICK: LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL HERO
Rochelle Saidel (Remember the Women Institute, New York City) – Guest lecture
Anna Grusková (Bratislava) – Director of “Burning House” (2016) – Film screening
Moderator: Katja Grosse-Sommer (Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg)

19.00 – 19.15 OPENING OF THE VIRTUAL MUSEUM OF GISI FLEISCHMANN

19.30 – 21.00 Dinner

TUESDAY, 22.01.2019

09.00 – 13.00 EXCURSION TO SEREĎ HOLOCAUST MUSEUM (for invited participants)

13.10 – 14.50 Lunch

15.00 – 16.00 PANEL 3: GUIDING AND PRESERVING THE COMMUNITY: WOMEN IN JEWISH LEADERSHIP
Laurien Vastenhout (University of Sheffield) – Female Involvement in Jewish Councils of the Netherlands and France: Gertrude van Tijn and Juliette Stern
Karolina Szymaniak (Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw) – “Words as Milk of a Breast-Feeding Woman”: Representations of Witnessing and Documentation in Rachel Auerbach’s Writing
Moderator: Denisa Nešťáková (Comenius University, Bratislava)

16.00 – 17.00 PANEL 4: SEXUALITY AND INTIMACY
Gabrielle Hauth (Clark University, Worcester) – Female Intimacy in Concentration Camps
Florian Zabransky (University of Sussex) – Male Jewish Sexuality in Concentration Camps
Moderator: Martin Posch (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)

17.00 – 17.30 Coffee break

17.30 – 19.00 PANEL 5: GENDER, YOUTH AND NEW FAMILY CONCEPTS
Natalia Aleksiun (Touro College, New York) – Girls Coming of Age during the Holocaust: Gender, Class, and the Struggle for Survival in Eastern Europe
Kerstin Schwenke (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich / Institute for Contemporary History, Munich) – “It was hard to find any resemblance between this distorted body and the man my father used to be”: Female Family Members of Concentration Camp Inmates in Personal Contact with the Camps
Joanna Sliwa (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) – Polish Women Rescuers and the Jewish Children They Sheltered in Kraków, Poland
Moderator: Michala Lônčiková (Comenius University / Holocaust Documentation Center, Bratislava)

19.15 – 20.30 Dinner

WEDNESDAY, 23.01.2019

09.30 – 11.00 PANEL 6: COLLABORATORS, PERPETRATORS AND CHANGING CONCEPTS OF GENDER
Anna-Raphaela Schmitz (Institute for Contemporary History, Munich) – “My family was well provided for in Auschwitz.” The Lives of the Wives of SS-Members in Auschwitz-Birkenau
Irina Makhalova (National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow) – Participation of Soviet Women in Persecution of the Jewish Population in the Crimea during the Nazi Occupation
Eva Škorvanková (Comenius University, Bratislava) – Women and the Ideology of Slovak National Socialism
Moderator: Anna Ullrich (Institute for Contemporary History, Munich)

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break

11.30 – 12.30 PANEL 7: RESISTANCE
Modiane Zerdoun-Daniel (Uppsala University) – Jewish Women among Partisans in Lithuania, 1941 – 1945
Anna Nedlin-Lehrer (Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg) – Equal Fighters: Women of the Dror Youth Movement in the Warsaw Ghetto
Moderator: Jaromir Mrňka (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague)

12.40 – 13.50 Lunch

14.00 – 15.30 FINAL PANEL DISCUSSION
Andrea Löw (Institute for Contemporary History, Munich),
Andrea Petö (Central European University, Budapest),
Monika Vrzgulová (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)
Moderators: Jakub Drábik (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)
Eva Škorvanková (Comenius University, Bratislava)

15.30 – 16.00 CONFERENCE WRAP UP