The Arnold Nemirow Lecture Series - Women in Auschwitz with Professor Sarah Cushman

While many have heard of Auschwitz and its genocidal sub-camp Birkenau, few know about the women’s section. Cushman offers an approach that integrates analyses of women prisoners, prisoner functionaries, and guards revealing a dynamic place where some sought to survive and others to thrive in a genocidal environment.

Dr. Sarah Cushman is Director of the Holocaust Educational Foundation and Senior Lecturer in History at Northwestern University. Her current research project Women in Auschwitz is under contract with Indiana University Press.