Historian shares research on the female face of genocide

Woodstock Academy welcomed Dr. Sarah Cushman as its third guest in a Genocide Speaker Series on March 7. Cushman is the head of educational programming at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University in Worcester. She has made it her mission to take a hard look at the Holocaust and examine how people came to be so brutal to others. Cushman was interested in the ways women responded once they found themselves inside the hellish camps. Women sometimes get left out of the picture so we miss more than half of the story, she said. We don’t hear about the impact of these anti-Jewish policies on them, but we also don’t hear about women’s propensity to violence. (Hartford Courant, March 14, 2016)