The Holocaust Research Study Group
The Holocaust Research Study Group (HRSG) is a multi-disciplinary group of women scholars actively working on individual Holocaust related projects. Our members include a journalist, a prose writer, a public artist, a poet, a fine art photographer, a sociologist, a public health professor, and a film-maker. The HRSG provides constructive, feminist-based critiques of each individual’s work-in-progress, as well as in-depth discussions of overarching themes and questions relating to the Holocaust including how gender affects evolving Holocaust narratives as well as the methodology, process, and product of individual projects. The group holds annual public events at Brandeis University sponsored by HBI to engage Brandeis University participation and initiate a wider national and international dialogue on the ongoing impact of the Holocaust and its relationship to contemporary issues.
HRSG Events
Now I know their names: Family members murdered in the Holocaust.
Photo Credit: ©Karin Rosenthal 2023
October 11, 2023
7:00 pm ET / Hybrid (In person at the Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall, Kniznick Gallery and online)
Six members of the HBI Holocaust Research Study Group (HRSG), Debra Kaufman, Laurel Leff, Rachel Munn, Karin Rosenthal, Sarah Swartz, and Ornit Barkai, will discuss aspects of their own work that intersect with the themes of the Lives Eliminated, Dreams Illuminated exhibition. A panel discussion will follow, focusing on questions and issues raised by the exhibit and reflected in our individual work.
Lives Eliminated, Dreams Illuminated, an immersive exhibition of painting and music. Painter Lauren Bergman and composer Ella Milch-Sheriff honor young women and girls murdered in the Holocaust by using art to imagine the lives they might have led.
Lives Eliminated, Dreams Illuminated is presented in partnership with the Dr. David M. Milch Foundation.
April 18, 2023
An Annual Virtual Public Event for Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day
How do we engage with the memory of Holocaust history and understand its relevance for succeeding generations?
Our panel consists of a multidisciplinary group of eight women – two writers, a public artist, a sociologist, a journalist, a fine art photographer, a documentary filmmaker and a professor of public health in Germany. This panel of “second generation” speakers (the generation born after the Holocaust) will engage with multiple themes of intergenerational memory of Holocaust history, including a gendered viewpoint. A “third generation” panel of undergraduate and graduate student participants has been invited to explore and articulate, in their own words, their thoughts on the importance of sustaining Holocaust memory.
2023 HBI Holocaust Research Study Group: Presenters, Titles, and Presentations
April 28, 2022
A panel discussion with presentations by eight women scholars, artists, and writers in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Who, from the past and in the present, gets to tell narratives about Holocaust history and its significance? A gender perspective broadens our understanding and awareness of the Holocaust to include women’s lives, actions, and heroics. The focus on women’s voices and how stories are told informs this event and will initiate a dialogue about Jewish history, gender studies, the Holocaust, and our world today.
2022 HBI Holocaust Research Study Group: Presenters, Titles, and Presentations