Judaica et Holocaustica

Topic: Women and WWII

Since 2001 the Department of General History, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava has issued Acta Historica Posoniensia, where original papers, reviews, essays, documents and papers from conferences organized by the Department and books of members of the Department are published. Within this collection, a separate annual Journal Judaica et Holocaustica has been published, that is dealing history of Jews and the Holocaust. Until now there have been published seven issues. 

The main goal of the yearbook is present original studies and papers that represent new research for understanding the topic: Women and WWII. Editors of the annual Journal are E. Nižňanský and D. Nešťáková.

Articles are focused on following topics:

·         Sexual violence against women during WWII

·         Prostitution during the WWII

·         Women as perpetrators – perpetrators of war crimes, guards in camps, collaborators, case studies

·         Women in resistance

·         Life of Jewish women in hiding

·         Motherhood during WWII – family life, glorification of motherhood, Lebensborn, forced sterilization

·         Gender studies and Holocaust

·         Relationship between Jewish and non-Jewish women

Reputable authors from following institutions contributed with their research on this issue of Judaica and Holocaustica:

·         Department of Eastern and South European History, Faculty of History and Art, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

·         Department of General History, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

·         Department of History and Classics, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada

·         Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

·         Department of History, Slovak Academy of Science, Bratislava, Slovakia

·         Department of Legal History, Janko Jesenský Faculty of Law Danubius University, Sládkovičovo, Slovakia

·         Faculty of Arts, University of Miskolc, Hungary

·         Holocaust Memorial Center, Budapest, Hungary

·         Institute of National Remembrance, Cracow, Poland

Editors have obtained funding to publish the 7th issue of the Journal from following institutions:

Visegrad fund – Small Grant

Faculty of Arts, Comenius University

Polish Institute in Bratislava

Civil association ATID

The Journal is published printed. Articles are published in English and one in German.

For more information, visit the official website of the journal Acta Judaica et Holocaustica https://fphil.uniba.sk/katedry-a-odborne-pracoviska/katedra-vseobecnych-dejin/veda/edicna-a-publikacna-cinnost/acta-historica-posoniensia/

For more information, contact Mgr. Denisa Nešťáková, MA

contact: nestakova1uniba.sk