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Explore the unique roles of women in resistance activities and rescue efforts during the Holocaust. Women engaged in active armed resistance, prisoner revolts, acted as couriers, and fought back through both personal and spiritual resistance. We will discuss several of these brave women, including Marion Pritchard, Faye Shulman, Countess Maria von Maltzan and Irena Sendler.

The Historic Forty-plus Year Effort to Bring Them to Justice, Presented by the Hon. Elizabeth Holtzman

Nazi war criminals came to the US in large numbers after WWII, generally hiding their murderous activities from US authorities and the public.  Former US Representative Elizabeth Holtzman, became the first member of Congress to expose their presence in the US and institute measures, including a new law, to bring them to justice.  Her talk will recount that historic effort.

This webinar for members of Gratz giving societies features Dr. Paul Finkelman, Gratz College president and historian, and Dr. Kathryn A. Glatter, a Harvard-trained physician and student in Gratz’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies Ph.D. program. They will lead a discussion about Jews and pandemic based on their recently published article, “Jews, Genes, and the Black Death” (Jewish Review of Books, February 7, 2021), in which they pose a fascinating, scientific-historical hypothesis about how genetic science can change our understanding of historical events – and debunk age-old myths.