Wendy Lower Lecture: "I Wanted to Prove Myself to the Men: Female Perpetrators in the Killing Fields of the Holocaust”

Dr. Wendy Lower defines terminology.

Wendy Lower, Ph.D., addresses USC students.

USC students thoughtfully listen to Wendy Lower’s presentation and take notes.

Susanne Beer, a visiting doctoral student from the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Beer is conducting research in the archive on German rescuers.

USC students and USC staff member Casey Cohen listen to Wendy Lower.

From left: Wolf Gruner, Jewish Studies and Professor of History, University of Southern California; and guest speaker Wendy Lower, Ph.D., an Associate Professor of History and lectures at Maximilians University in Munich.

Background, from left: Jack Halberstam, USC Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender Studies; and Dr. Kori Street, USC Shoah Foundation Institute Director of Programs.

On January 26, 2012, from 4 p.m.-6 p.m., the USC Shoah Foundation offered a lecture entitled I Wanted to Prove Myself to the Men: Female Perpetrators in the Killing Fields of the Holocaust, in the Social Sciences building on the USC campus. The lecture featured Wendy Lower, Ph.D., an Associate Professor of History and lecturer at Maximilians University, Munich. Drawing from wartime documents, postwar trials, private letters, and interviews, this lecture focused on outstanding cases of women who participated in the Holocaust, some in ghetto liquidations and mass shootings of Polish and Ukrainian Jews; others committed brutal acts on their own.

To access more information about this event, please go to http://dornsife.usc.edu/vhi/events/3401.

Album posted on: March 3, 2012