Women and the Holocaust: A Symposium (April 2002)
Center for New Deal Studies

On April 24, 2002 over 150 people gathered at Roosevelt University’s Robin Campus in Schaumburg, Illinois for an all-day symposium on women and the Holocaust. Organized by RU graduate student, Wendy Maier, and Professors Leon Stein and Margaret Rung, the event featured sessions on the legacies of the Holocaust, literature and the Holocaust, women in the Nazi party as well as first-hand accounts from survivors, hidden children, resisters, rescuers, and liberators.

Sponsors: The Center for New Deal Studies (RU); Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois; Kappa Upsilon chapter of Phi Alpha Theta; Mansfield Institute for Social Justice (RU); RU Honors Program; RU School of Liberal Studies; RU Student Alliance and Office of Student Activities.

Northwestern University Professors Phyllis Lassner and Jake Lassner.

From Roosevelt University (L to R): Drs. Vinton Thompson, Provost; Theodore Gross, President; Leon Stein, Professor of History; and J. Michael Durnil, Robin Campus Executive Officer.

Roosevelt University Associate Professor of Psychology, Mona Weissmark.

Liberator Paul Backas and survivor Betty Federman.

Army World War Two photographer, Phil Drell; RU Professor of Art History Susan Weininger; Melissa Weininger; and Merle Gross.

Survivor Fritzie Fritzshall; hidden child Ava Kadishson Schieber; and Marge Tauber.

Survivors Bella Korn and Joe Korn.

Volunteers Heather Voight, Cyndi Cornejo, Susan Thomas, and Rose Glitzow.

Audience at lunch.

World War II resister and President, Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois, Lisa Derman

Symposium audience visiting Phil Drell photography exhibit, “Witness to the Holocaust.”