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Wednesday 5 June, 1.00pm
In-person

Drawing on literature, testimonies and archives in French, this talk will focus on pregnancy, giving birth and maternal subjectivity during the Holocaust and in its aftermath. 

Join us at the Museum for this conversation with expert Dr Nathalie Ségeral as she delves into this difficult but important historical topic.  

Warning: This important expert talk will focus on distressing content relating to children.

About the expert 

Dr Nathalie Ségeral has held appointments at Virginia Tech, the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the University of Sydney. She works on gender, motherhood and trauma studies in contemporary French and Francophone literature and culture. 

This event is held in collaboration with Sydney University and Mandelbaum House.

Image: Katalin Ascher and her son, Ivan, in Budapest, Hungary, 1944. SJM collection.