Series: American Women and the Holocaust

Browse articles and media highlighting American women from a wide range of roles and their activities or experiences during the Holocaust: First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Jazz musician Valaida Snow, and US Army nurse Pat Lynch.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Frances Perkins

Jazz musician Valaida Snow

US nurse Pat Lynch describes caring for starving and critically ill camp survivors

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