When:
Thursday, February 26, 2026
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM CT
Where: Harris Hall, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Eva Seligman
(847) 467-4408
hef@northwestern.edu
Group: Holocaust Educational Foundation
Category: Lectures & Meetings, Academic, Multicultural & Diversity
HEFNU Annual Winter Lecture featuring Tiarra Maznick
The Nazi Transport of 440 Romani Women and Girls from Austria’s Burgenland in June 1939: A Microhistory
During the early hours of June 29, 1939, 440 Romani women and girls from Austria’s Burgenland arrived in Ravensbrück concentration camp for women. Awakened in their homes days and weeks prior, the women were herded at gunpoint by local Gendarmes to gather at select collection sites before traveling 2 ½ days in cattle cars, without food, water, or toileting facilities, until they arrived in Ravensbrück, 90 km north of Berlin. Unbeknownst to them, they would constitute the first all-woman transport to ever traverse Nazi railways in order to build the sites of their own imprisonment.
This presentation explores the fates, trajectories, and experiences of the 440 women contained in this transport.
Open to the Public
Reception to Follow