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Female Couriers during the Holocaust - Teacher Seminar
Thematic focus
- Holocaust
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
Address
Date
10 March 2024
Time
10:00 - 13:30
(GMT+00:00) London
Description
In this session Orit Margoliot (independent researcher and educator) will present Yad Vashem’s Spots of Light: To Be a Woman in the Holocaust exhibition. The exhibition gives expression to the unique voice of Jewish women in the Holocaust: their choices and responses in the face of the evil, brutality and relentless hardship that they were forced to grapple with. Spots of Light forms one of 10 ready2print exhibitions available free to educational institutions via Yad Vashem, details will be provided during the workshop. Shlomit Steiner (Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies) will explore the story of female couriers (kashariyot) during the Holocaust. The kashariyot were young Jewish women who undertook dangerous missions across German-occupied Eastern Europe. Adopting false identities, they transported documents, underground newspapers, forged documents, money, weapons and ammunition in and out of the ghettos of Poland, Lithuania, and parts of Russia.
Organiser
Holocaust Educational Trust