Heroines of the Holocaust

Prof. Lori R. Weintrob is the Founding Director of the Wagner College Holocaust Center and Professor in the Department of History, Wagner College, Staten Island, New York.Prof. Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is the Director of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, the Abraham and Edita Spiegel Family Professor in Holocaust Research, the Rabbi Pynchas Brener Professor in Research on the Holocaust of European Jewry, and Professor in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

• Part 1: Identifying Gendered Courage1. Holocaust Heroines: Definitions and Dilemmas Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz2. Feminine Leadership and Dual Leadership in the Jewish Resistance Organizations in Poland - Avihu Ronen and Dafna Itzkovich3. The Leadership Lessons of Zivia LubetkinLori R. WeintrobPart 2: Resistance by Women in Nazi Germany 4. Defiance and Protest of Jewish Women in Nazi Germany Wolf Gruner5. Everyday Routines as a Special Form of Female ResistanceElisabeth Pönisch6. Maria Leitner’s Undercover Reporting and Research on German National SocialismSabine KalffPart 3: Professional Women: Rethinking Survival Skills in the Holocaust7. Hélène Cazès Benatar in Morocco During World War IIMichal Ben Ya'akov8. Professions of Life: Social Welfare Professionals as Rescuers During the HolocaustKaty Matello9. Hadassah Bimko (Rosensaft) at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen- BelsenMenachem Z. RosensaftPart 4: Women’s Voices in the Ghettos, Camps and in the Partisans 10. Why We Need Heroines: Reflections on My Mother, Vladka MeedSteven Meed11. Rikle Glezer: Poet Partisan of Vilna Jay Saper and Corbin Allardice12. Auschwitz, October 1943: A Woman Hero Without a Name Bożena Karwowska 13. Greek Women as Resisters and Rescuers in the Holocaust Yitzchak Kerem 14. Heroines of the Forest: Jewish Women in Partisan Units in Lithuania and Belarus Daniela Ozacky Stern15. Remembering Three Ravensbrück Heroes Rochelle G. SaidelPart 5: Comparative Frameworks: The Armenian Genocide, the Porajmos and the Genocide of the Tutsis 16. Women Resisters to the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Syria Khatchig Mouradian17. Spaces of Resistance of Sinti and Romani Women during the Nazi Persecution Verena Meier18. The Role of Ukrainian Women in Rescuing Jews during the Holocaust in UkraineHanna Abakunova19. Women Rescuers in the 1994 Genocide of Tutsi in RwandaJennie E. Burnet Part 6: After the Holocaust: Remembering Women’s Activism20. Zivia Lubetkin; Her Public Story, Her Private Story Sharon Geva21. Thea Altaras: Reclaiming Jewish Identity after the Resistance Anita Lukic 22. Afterword: On Audacity Judy Batalion