(Mis)representing and reconstructing the role of the "four women" in the Auschwitz Sonderkommando uprising

MOSAIC, the Birmingham Society for Jewish Studies in association with the Department of Theology and Religion presents:
two lectures marking the 70^th anniversary of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando uprising in Auschwitz and its aftermath.

Speaker: Dr Isabel Wollaston

Isabel Wollaston is Senior Lecturer in Jewish and Holocaust Studies, Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham. Her publications related to the topic of this lecture include A War against Memory? The Future of Holocaust Remembrance(London, SPCK, 1996); ‘Negotiating the marketplace: The role(s) of Holocaust museums today’, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies4:1 (2005); ‘Swimming against the tide: Melissa Raphael’s contribution to the study of Jewish religious responses to the Holocaust’, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History15:3 (2011), ‘The absent, the partial and the iconic in archival photographs of the Holocaust’, Jewish Culture and History12:3 (2012); and ‘Emerging from the shadows: The Auschwitz Sonderkommando and the “four women” in history and memory’, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History(forthcoming 2015).