Lecture of Dr. Janine P. Holc
Lecture of the prof. of politology at the Loyola University Maryland Dr. Janine P. Holc: The Weavers of Trautenau, Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust will take place as part of the lecture series organised by the Jewish Museum Prague and EHRI-CZ “New Views and Sources on the History of Holocaust”.
Date: 17th June 2025, 7 pmPlace: Maisel Synagogue, Maiselova 10, Prague 1
After the annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, forced labour camps for the Jewish population were set up in many factories owned by local Germans. However, the employment of Czech and German non-Jewish workers continued. In her lecture, Dr. Janine P. Holc will focus on a group of textile factories in the Trutnov region where Polish Jewish girls from Silesia were interned from 1940 until May 1945. Based on the testimonies of survivors and the documents of the perpetrators, you can find out what the relationships between Czech and Jewish workers were like and what strategies the Polish Jewish women used to survive.
The event will be simultaneously interpreted into Czech, admission is free.