Janine P. Holc

Janine Holc is a Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Maryland. As a researcher, writer, and educator, she has published and given talks on issues in Eastern Europe, with a focus on Poland, Polish-Jewish relations, and gendered childhoods in wartime. Her most recent book, "The Weavers of Trautenau: Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust," assembles survivor testimonies to reconstruct the experience of Jewish teenagers in slave labor during World War II. The geographical focus is Sosnowiec, Będzin, Trutnov, and the camps Parschnitz and Oberaltstadt.