WHISC - Women in the Holocaust International Study Center, Givat Haviva, Israel
In cooperation with Jagiellonian University, Kraków, the University of the National Education Commission in Kraków, and the Museum of Kraków.
Chair: Batya Brutin
Yoel Yaari, Lonka Kozybrodska: A Forgotten Heroine of Jewish Resistance
Racheli Ikar, "We Do Not Fear Death": Dr. Rozalia Blau – a Woman Physician in the Kraków Ghetto Hospital
Alessandro Matta, Matilde Eckert, the unknown story of a Jewish woman from Krakow to Cagliari
Chair: Ewa Wegrzyn
Przemysław Zarubin, Jewish Women in Kraków, 1939–1942, through the Lens of Notarial Records: A Preliminary Research Survey
Alicja Jarkowska, Across the Wall: Jewish Women in the Criminal Underworld in and Beyond the Kraków Ghetto
Katarzyna Zechenter, Teenage Daughters and Their Mothers: Survival Strategies in the Autobiographical Writings of Jewish Women from Kraków
Chair: Lily Halpert Zamir
Yossi Suede, Portrait of a Woman Fighter: A Collective Biography of the Women of the Jewish Military Union (ŻZW) in Warsaw
Larissa-Marie Lömpel, Surviving Together: Miriam Wagman Liptcher and Female Networks in Auschwitz Birkenau
Oxana Antsiferova, Negotiating Everyday Life: Jewish Women’s Experiences in the Płaszów Concentration Camp through Survivor Testimonies
Chair: Łukasz Tomasz Sroka
Hanna Rosenbaum-Erlichman, From Resistance to Renewal: A Jewish Woman's Journey Through War, Survival and Rebirth
Kara Torres-Kilgannon, Helen and Stella: Surviving the Violence of the Holocaust in Kraków
Chair: Maciej J. Tomal
Dagmara Swałtek-Niewińska, Expelled from Kraków: Wartime Niepołomice through the Eyes of Two Young Jewish Women
Anna Smywińska-Pohl, Break, Survival, and Emigration: The Lives of Kraków Women Philosophers and Psychoanalysts in the 20th Century
Aleksandra Gaj, Broken Pens, Altered Identities, and Healed Trauma: The Impact of WWII on the Lives of Felicja Stendig, Rela Schmeidler, and Maria Orwid
Chair: Przemysław Zarubin
Katarzyna Kocik, “I survived, I am alive” – testimonies of non-Jewish women working in the Kraków ghetto.
Karolina Ożóg, Herstories hidden in the archives of the “NKVD Investigative Department in the Lviv Oblast” at the State Archives of the Lviv Oblast (DALO)
Bożena Iwanowska, Blue Cards, Kinderheim Lists, and Potato Peelings: Women’s Care and Survival in Kraków–Płaszów and the Generalgouvernement