Women’s Stories: Holocaust Histories in the Museum
Museums act as conduits of historical information to the public. As such, these institutions are responsible for considering their role in creating and perpetuating historical narratives. Using gender as a category of historical analysis reveals how women are underrepresented within memorial spaces dedicated to the Holocaust. While individual women may be visibly depicted in photos and conveyed through survivor testimonies, exhibits at many large museums often miss the overarching narrative of women’s collective experiences. Join Dr. Katie Chaka-Parks, Director of Education at the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan, for a discussion about how these representations and omissions inform our understanding of the memory and history of the Holocaust.
The webinar is free and open to everyone, but advanced registration is required.
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*This event is part of the 2026-27 Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Colloquium, “Storytelling in/as Resistance,” as well as the Human Rights and the Museum Series, a collaboration between the KHC and the Museum and Gallery Studies Program in the Art and Design Department at Queensborough Community College (QCC). It is co-sponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Salem State University; the Legacy Foundation at Mount Hebron Cemetery; the Reiff Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at Christopher Newport University; the Cohen Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College; the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh; the Holocaust Resource Center at Kean University; the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center in White Plains; the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University; the Wagner College Holocaust Center; the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide & Crimes Against Humanity at Western Washington University; the Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive at University of Michigan-Dearborn; the Center for the Study of Genocide & Human Rights at Rutgers University; and the Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan University.
Speakers at co-sponsored events represent a wide range of scholarly research and views; guests' perspectives should not be taken as representative of the Cohen Institute or Keene State College as a whole.*
This event is part of the Cohen Institute calendar.
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