Jan 30, 2023 / Comments Off on AZ Speaks – Women’s Resilience and Survival in the Holocaust with Björn Krondorfer Comments

Presentation introduces the complex history of the Holocaust through the lives of Doris Martin and Jane Lipski, who survived the Nazi onslaught as adolescent girls.
While Jane was able to escape the ghetto and join the resistance movement in Slovakia, Doris was sent to Auschwitz and selected for labor at a women’s camp near the Gross-Rosen concentration camp.

Doris was liberated in 1945 by the advancing Soviet forces and ended up in a Displaced Person Camp in Germany, Jane was arrested by the Soviets as a suspected spy and remained in captivity in Soviet labor camps until 1947. Both women later became Arizona residents.

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