Join MHM Co-President Sue Hampel as she applies gender as a lens for looking at the Holocaust in this stimulating lecture. 

Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust will consider the ‘”female voice” to shed light on Jewish women’s experiences during the Holocaust by discussing three case studies:

The reaction and responses of Jewish women living in Nazi Germany
The coping strategies women employed in the ghettos and concentration camps
The heroism of female resistors

By examining diaries, documents and testimonies, Sue will assess the “double jeopardy” that Jewish women faced on a daily basis during the Holocaust.

Photo of Jewish women prisoners in front of the barracks. Courtesy of Yad Vashem.

Suzy will appear in conversation with the Melbourne Holocaust Museum’s Manager of Adult Education Dr Simon Holloway. Learn what inspired Suzy to revisit her father’s Holocaust story for a new generation of readers and find out why she continues to seek stories that break her readers’ hearts.

Among Suzy’s many books for adults and children are The Wrong Boy, shortlisted for the Childrens’ Book Council Of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards, Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, the WAYRBA, USBBY and the Young Australian Best Book Awards (Yabba) awards and ‘Alexander Altmann A10567’, a CBCA Notable book. Suzy’s books have been published in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Sweden, Italy, Romania and the Netherlands.

Suzy’s latest novel for young adults, Inkflower, is a gripping exploration of identity and the custodianship of memory from the perspective of a teenage girl who, in her father’s last months, is forced to reckon with his dark past and expose her own secrets. No one at school knows that she is Jewish or that her father is sick. But that’s all about to change, and so is she.

“An inspiring Holocaust story of love, loss and hope. ” – Jayne Josem, CEO, Melbourne Holocaust Museum

“A remarkable and compelling book that beautifully explores the human experience of survival against all odds.” – Sue Hampel OAM, co-president, Melbourne Holocaust