St Albans Museums – Talk w. Danielle Cavender-Handley – HMD 2024

Activity information

Activity type: Public activity

Organisation name: St Albans Museum + Gallery

Website: https://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/holocaust-memorial-talk

Address:
St Albans Museum + Gallery
Highstreet
St Albans
Hertfordshire
AL3 4SW
United Kingdom

It started with a photo... a photo that existing scholarship said was impossible: a group of newly liberated Holocaust survivors, all holding their young babies born in the concentration camps. How could such a photo ever have been taken, when existing scholarly consensus was that upon discovery, pregnant women were immediately murdered?

Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January, join historian Danielle Cavender-Handley for a talk examining the remarkable stories of five women which flies in the face of accepted Holocaust narratives.

Meet the women who survived life in the concentration camps whilst guards and inmates knew they were pregnant and yet all lived to tell the tale with their babies.

Based on original research, this talk explores the circumstances that enabled their survival, who helped them, and what that can tell us about the nuances surrounding life in concentration camps.

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