Arizona Humanities Presents: Women's Resilience and Survival in the Holocaust
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Monday, Mar 27, 2023 6pm - 7pm
Location
Mesa Public Library
64 E 1st St
Details
Trace the lives of two women Holocaust survivors who both grew up in traditional Jewish families in Bedzin, Poland and later became residents of Arizona: Jane Lipski (Tucson) and Doris Martin (Flagstaff) as they managed to survive the Nazi onslaught as adolescent girls. While Jane was able to escape the ghetto and join the resistance movement in Slovakia, Doris was sent to Auschwitz and selected for labor at a women’s camp near the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. When Doris was liberated in 1945 by the advancing Soviet forces and ended up in a Displaced Person Camp in Germany, Jane was arrested by the Soviets as a suspected spy and remained in captivity in Soviet labor camps until 1947. Professor Björn Krondorfer will present an introduction into the complex history of the Holocaust through the lives of Doris and Jane, with particular attention to women’s resourcefulness in their struggle so to survive.
This program is made possible by Arizona Humanities.
