Sharon Geva

Dr. Sharon Geva is a senior lecturer at Kibbutzim College and historian at the Ghetto Fighters’ House, Israel. Her research interests are the history of women in the Holocaust, Holocaust commemoration in gender perspective, history of Israeli women, and women survivors of the Holocaust. Her first book, To the Unknown Sister: Holocaust Heroines in Israeli Society (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2010) was awarded the 2011 Mordechai Ish Shalom Prize by the Yad Itzhak Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem. Her book Women in Israel: The Early Years was published by The Hebrew University Magnes Press (2020). Her latest book, Zivia Lubetkin and Yitzhak (Antek) Zuckerman: A Double Biography, was published by Hakibbutz Hameuchad, Yad Tabenkin and the Ghetto Fighters' House (2023).

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Miriam Novitch

Miriam Novitch was a member of the French Resistance during World War II and, after, an advocate for education on the Jewish resistance and the experiences of Holocaust survivors. She was one of the founders of the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum (also known as the Ghetto Fighter’s House, or GFH) and served as the curator for its art collection for many years. 

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