Gloria Steinham to Moderate Sexual Violence During the Holocaust Panel at BK Museum, 3/20

Gloria Steinem to Moderate Panel and Speakout on Sexual Violence During the Holocaust and Other Genocides For centuries, brutality against females in war and genocide has been considered an almost inevitable by-product of conflict. The Holocaust was no exception. Sexual abuse of Jewish women was not part of German genocidal policy, but nevertheless occurred. A new book, Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women during the Holocaust, documents the sexual violence against Jewish and other women that has been relegated to the fringes of Holocaust history or even denied.

Now rape is an instrument of mass atrocities worldwide, from Bosnia to Rwanda, the Congo, and Sudan. On the occasion of the release of this revelatory book, this panel will speak about the connections and differences, asking: Can this new understanding of sexual violence during the Holocaust decrease and prevent sexual violence during other genocides?

Panelists:
Gloria Steinem, Moderator
Feminist activist and co-founder of the Women's Media Center

Sonja M. Hedgepeth, co-editor
Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature, Middle Tennessee State University

Rochelle G. Saidel, co-editor
Founder and director, Remember the Women Institute

Nava Semel
Novelist, Activist, and Child of Holocaust Survivors

Mama Jeanne Kasongo L. Ngondo
President and Founder of Shalupe Foundation

Presented by the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

Sunday, March 20, 2 to 4 p.m., at the Brooklyn Museum

For more information, please see:
www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa
www.rememberwomen.org
www.womensmediacenter.com