Experience and Expression: Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust

Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS The Editors Elizabeth R. Baer serves as Professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College, where she holds the Florence and Raymond Sponberg Chair of Ethics. She is the co-editor, with Hester Baer, of the first English edition of The Blessed Abyss: Inmate #6582 in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women, a memoir by Nanda Herbermann published in 2000 by Wayne State University Press. She is a Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota where she teaches a course entitled “Women and the Holocaust : Gender, Memory and Representation.” She also recently taught courses on the Holocaust for the Jewish Community Relations Council in Minneapolis as well as a three week course in Germany and the Czech Republic for twenty-four American undergraduates. Dr. Baer was the recipient of a Fulbright Award in the summer of 2000 to study the history of Jews in Germany. She was recently honored with the Virginia Hamilton Award for the Outstanding Essay on Multicultural Children’s Literature in 2000 for an essay on children’s literature about the Holocaust . She is also the editor of Shadows on My Heart: The Civil War Diary of Lucy Buck, published by the University of Georgia Press in 1997. Myrna Goldenberg is one of the early contributors to the field of women and the Holocaust. Her seminal article, “Different Horrors, Same Hell” has sparked controversy as well as serious scholarship, and she has continued to examine memoirs and oral histories to discover the common experiences of women in ghettos and concentration camps. Her other research projects focus on American Jewish women (Annie Nathan Meyer) and Holocaust Studies in higher education. She contributed chapters to a variety of books on Jewish women, women in the Holocaust, and the Holocaust, in general, as well as numerous encyclopedia articles on Holocaust memoirs and novels, and many reviews of feminist literature and Holocaust works. Dr. Goldenberg is a professor of English and 299 300 Contributors the Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities-supported Paul Peck Humanities Institute at Montgomery College, Maryland, and adjunct professor at the University of Maryland and The Johns Hopkins University graduate program. The recipient of several prestigious fellowships , she was recognized in 1996 as the Outstanding Faculty Member in the nation’s community colleges by the Association of Community College Trustees. The Contributors Susan Benedict is Professor of Nursing at the Medical University of South Carolina where she teaches the doctoral course in ethics, and Associate Chief Nurse/Research at the Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Administration Medical Center in Charleston. She is the only nurse to have received the Fellowship in Medical Ethics and the Holocaust from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., where she undertook research for the chapter included in this book. Portions of the chapter were published as part of the article, coauthored with Jochen Kuhla, “Nurses’ Participation in the Euthanasia Programs of Nazi Germany” in the Western Journal of Nursing Research. Catherine A. Bernard received her J.D. in 2002 from New York University School of Law, where she was a Dean’s Scholar. From 1997–1998, she was a Mellon Fellow in Humanistic Studies and a Graduate Theological Union Presidential Scholar at the U.C. Berkeley/Graduate Theological Union Joint Graduate Program in Jewish Studies. She received her B.A. in 1995 from Stanford University, where senior honors thesis, tell him that I: Women Writing the Holocaust, won three university awards. Her essay “Anne Frank and Women Writers of the Holocaust,” was published in Readings on the Diary of a Young Girl, edited by Myra H. Immell, Currently , she is writing about the Nazi-era restitution litigation and its effect on and significance to Holocaust survivors. Pascale Rachel Bos is Assistant Professor of Netherlandic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She received a Doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Minnesota where she taught Women’s Studies and Holocaust Studies, and served as Assistant Director at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Born and raised in Amster- Contributors 301 dam, The Netherlands, she is herself a daughter and granddaughter of Dutch-Jewish Holocaust survivors. Stephen Feinstein is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls where he taught history and art history from l969 to 1998 and is now Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota. He was an invited guest...