Join us on March 2, 2027, at 12:30 PM for the final Ziegler lecture of 2026-2027.
Focusing on the theme of ‘fragments’, CENES welcomes Dr. Tiarra Maznick from Northwestern University.
Abstract
During the early hours of June 29, 1939, 440 Romani women and girls from Austria’s Burgenland arrived in Ravensbrück concentration camp for women. Local gendarmes awaked the women at gunpoint in their homes, days and weeks prior, forcing them to gather at select collection sites before traveling 2 ½ days in cattle cars before arriving 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. Following these trajectories of persecution and locating sites of livingness, this talk explores the fates and experiences of the 440 women contained in this transport.
About the speaker
Tiarra Maznick is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. She defended her dissertation, “Jewish Women’s Wombs: The Holocaust and Postwar Pronatalism,” in July 2024 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dr. Maznick’s work currently appears in The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Holocaust Studies, Eastern European Holocaust Studies, The Massachusetts Review, The German Studies Review, Feminist German Studies, AJS Perspectives, and Holocaust and Genocide Studies (forthcoming). Dr. Maznick researches histories of sexuality, reproduction, and medicine under the Nazi Regime, in addition to histories of the Romani Holocaust.
How to attend
This lecture is an online event, and takes place on March 2, 2027, at 12:30 PM PT. Attendees must register for the Zoom Webinar ahead of time. Please note that this is a recorded event.
