In this talk, art historian and curator Rachel Perry discusses ten graphic narratives of their experiences of Nazi persecution created by women immediately after liberation. Lacking photographs of what they witnessed and endured, these "first responders" used visual storytelling to counter perpetrator and liberator sources and represent maternal loss, sexual violence, forced labor, and bodily trauma—experiences rarely recorded in canonical Holocaust testimony. Drawing on archives across Europe, Israel, and the United States, this talk recovers marginalized stories that predate Art Spiegelman's Maus by decades. Image above: Helmar Lerski (1871-1956), Hände einer Graphikerin (Lea Grundig), ca. 1944. Vintage print, 11 7/8 x 9 ½ in., [Series: Menschliche Hände / Human Hands]. Courtesy of Galerie Berinson, Berlin REGISTER HERE [...]