videos tagged women in history

Irma Grese was one of the SS who supervised the women's camp at Auschwitz Birkenau. By the end of 1943, in the southern part of the camp complex, there were 30,000 women, housed in 62 barracks in some of the worst conditions in the whole of Auschwitz. There was little running water, and disease was rampant. For Irma Grese the women's camp became a sadistic playground. Women survivors of the camps are interviewed to share their first-hand experiences and memories. 8:14 min.

Suffrage Movement Pictoral History --Incredible collection of suffrage photographs with the theme song of many Suffragettes worldwide, called "Bread and Roses." Feb 2008 video. 3:07 min.

Palestinian women recount the stories of the Nakba in their villages. The 1948 Palestinian exodus refers to the refugee flight of Palestinian Arabs before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. It is called the Nakba, meaning "disaster," "catastrophe," or "cataclysm," by Palestinians. The United Nations final estimate of the number of Palestinian refugees of the 1948 war was placed at 711,000 in 1951. Today, Palestinian refugees and their descendants are estimated to number over 4 million people. The initial

Poet Alice Walker reads the 1851 speech of abolitionist Sojourner Truth. Part of a reading from Voices of a People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove,) Novemeber 11, 2006 in Berkeley, California.

"The Raging Grannies" is a very special group of activists. These old women heroes take surprising risks to be part of political movements. The Raging Grannies (or just "Raging Grannies") are activist organizations that started in Victoria, British Columbia, over the winter of 1986/87. There are now groups in many cities and towns in different countries. Jan 2008. 1:40 min.

The excrutiating history of forced prostitution with the comfort women of Japan is one that must not be forgotten. As elderly survivors of this enslavement speak out Japan legislators have mixed reactions. A Sunday morning CBS news show excerpt. 2007

Women tell their own story of survival in the largest women's concentration camp called Ravensbruk (1944). Ravensbrueck had 130,000 women and children that were imprisoned there. It was the only large concentration camp on German territory designated for women. In the spring of 1939, the first 1,000 female prisoners were transferred from Lichtenburg Concentration Camp to Ravensbrück. Nov 2006 / 2:39 min film.

Everywoman TV report (excerpt) on two separate topics. On "The Global Gag Rule" coming from the U.S. which effects international politics on global health, birth control and family planning. And, the hard issues of elderly "Comfort Women" today seeking justice from Japan's legislature for their ordeals as forced sexual-workers during WWII. Film 12:30 min. Everywoman TV 2007

Women's rights did not come swiftly. A video dedicated to the U. S. suffragettes who fought for the rights of women to vote. We must appreciate the efforts of those before us who fought so hard to give women their rights in the United States.