Fourth Annual International WHISC Conference

PROGRAM
Day 1: Wednesday, 28/10/2026 at Schindler's Factory (Lipowa 4 St.)

14:00 – 15:00 Reception and Registration
15:00 – 16:00 Conference opening
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 Guided Tour of Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory
18:30 – Dinner at the Institute of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University on Józefa St. 19, Kraków

Day 2: Thursday, 29/10/2026 at Krzysztofory Palace (Copper Hall - Sala Miedziana - Rynek Główny 35 - Main Square)

09:00 – 10:30 Panel 1 - Her story
Chair: Batya Brutin
● Yoel Yaari, Lonka Kozybrodska: A Forgotten Heroine of Jewish Resistance
● Racheli Ikar, "We Do Not Fear Death": Dr. Rozalia Blau – a Woman Physician in the Kraków Ghetto Hospital
● Alessandro Matta, Matilde Eckert, the unknown story of a Jewish woman from Krakow to Cagliari

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30 Panel 2 - Women's Survival Strategies

Chair: Ewa Węgrzyn
● Przemysław Zarubin, Jewish Women in Kraków, 1939–1942, through the Lens of Notarial Records: A Preliminary Research Survey
● Alicja Jarkowska, Across the Wall: Jewish Women in the Criminal Underworld in and Beyond the Kraków Ghetto
● Katarzyna Zechenter, Teenage Daughters and Their Mothers: Survival Strategies in the Autobiographical Writings of Jewish Women from Kraków

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break (At participants' own expense)

14:00 – 15:30 Panel 3 - Physical and Metaphysical Resistance
Chair: Lily Halpert Zamir
●  Yossi Suede, Portrait of a Woman Fighter: A Collective Biography of the Women of the Jewish Military Union (ŻZW) in Warsaw
●  Larissa-Marie Lömpel, Surviving Together: Miriam Wagman Liptcher and Female Networks in Auschwitz-Birkenau
●  Oxana Antsiferova, Negotiating Everyday Life: Jewish Women’s Experiences in the Płaszów Concentration Camp through Survivor Testimonies

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:00 Panel 4 - The Fates of Jewish Women
Chair: Łukasz Tomasz Sroka
●  Hanna Rosenbaum-Erlichman, From Resistance to Renewal: A Jewish Woman's Journey Through War, Survival and Rebirth
●  Kara Torres-Kilgannon, Helen and Stella: Surviving the Violence of the Holocaust in Kraków

Day 3: Friday, 30/10/2026 at Krzysztofory Palace (Copper Hall - Sala Miedziana - Rynek Główny 35 - Main Square)

09:00 – 11:00 A tour to the KL Plaszow Memorial Museum in Kraków

Meeting point: Jerozolimska street 3, Szary Dom Grey House

12:30 – 14:00 Panel 1 - Jewish Women's Stories
Chair: Maciej J. Tomal
● Dagmara Swałtek-Niewińska, Expelled from Kraków: Wartime Niepołomice through the Eyes of Two Young Jewish Women
● Anna Smywińska-Pohl, Break, Survival, and Emigration: The Lives of Women Philosophers from Kraków and Psychoanalysts in the 20th Century
●  Aleksandra Gaj, Broken Pens, Altered Identities, and Healed Trauma: The Impact of WWII on the Lives of Felicja Stendig, Rela Schmeidler, and Maria Orwid

14:00 – 15:30 Lunch Break (At participants' own expense)

15:30 – 17:00 Panel 2 - Non-Jewish Women's Stories
Chair: Przemysław Zarubin
● Katarzyna Kocik, “I survived, I am alive” – testimonies of non-Jewish women working in the Kraków ghetto.
●  Karolina Ożóg, Herstories hidden in the archives of the “NKVD Investigative Department in the Lviv Oblast” at the State Archives of the Lviv Oblast (DALO)
● Bożena Iwanowska, Blue Cards, Kinderheim Lists, and Potato Peelings: Women’s Care and Survival in Kraków–Płaszów and the Generalgouvernement

17:30 – 18:00 Conference Summary and Closing Remarks