Remembering the 93 Bais Yaakov Girls: Piety, Sexual Violence, and Holocaust Discourse

Join us for a conversation with Naomi Seidman about the 93 — a group of girls from the Bais Yaakov school in the Kraków Ghetto that reportedly committed suicide rather than be taken as prostitutes by the Nazis.

Natalia Aleksiun to be first Harry Rich Professor of East European Holocaust Studies

Thanks to a recent endowment, the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida will become a world leader in researching and teaching one of history’s darkest moments. The Harry Rich Professorship in Holocaust Studies, created in 2020, will support a new faculty position in the field. The first chairholder will be NATALIA ALEKSIUN, a specialist in […]

The Light Of Days: The Untold Story Of Women Resistance Fighters In Hitler’s Ghettos

January 26, 2022 at 2 p.m.

Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies

Month: January 2022