Women’s Lives During World War II: Change and Loss
9th Grade – 12th Grade
English
Investigate how the role of women at home changed during World War II. During the London Blitz, women kept the nation running despite constant bombing and restrictive rationing. Non-Jewish German women were rewarded for having and rearing children. Jewish women faced a very different fate: medical experimentation, hard labor, and death in Ravensbrück and other concentration camps. Narrated by historian Brenna Wynn Greer, the video uses primary source footage to explore these three distinct yet related ways the war affected women’s lives.
