Gendered Experiences in, and Memories of, the Nazi Holocaust

December 2, 2015
Gendered Experiences in, and Memories of, the Nazi Holocaust
Dr. Azadeh Aalai, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Queensborough Community College
Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel, founder and executive director of the Remember the Women Institute
Dr. Marianne Hirsch, William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Drs. Azadeh Aalai, Rochelle Saidel, and Marianne Hirsch discuss victims’ gendered experiences in and memories of the Nazi Holocaust. Dr. Aalai, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Queensborough Community College, draws on her research on warfare & genocide, as well her seminar work at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, to reveal gendered variations in Holocaust experiences. Dr. Saidel, the founder and executive director of the Remember the Women Institute, offers insights from her co-edited volume, Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust. Dr. Hirsch, the William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Professor in the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, completes the panel with thoughts on the gendered transmission of memories of violence across generations.
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