Through the Eyes of a Woman

When we are taught history, we are mostly informed about what the great men of the world have done in the past. Women are seldom mentioned. In so many areas, women have been written out of history. Because they are not mentioned, they are doomed to oblivion. Women's contributions and accomplishments have largely been overlooked and consequently omitted from mainstream culture. After watching a documentary movie about women’s stony path to political participation and relevance, a young woman remarked, “Why didn’t we learn anything about this in school?”  And even today, women are still not respected as they should be. They have always had to fight against masculine power, arrogance, and restrictions of all kinds. Why Women's History? Why do need Women’s History? The website of the (US) National Women’s History Museum, founded in 1996, answers this question: “The National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) is an innovative online museum dedicated to uncovering, interpreting, a

In the last months I didn't get down to writing new articles for my blog. This article is not new either - I wrote it exactly one year ago . In a CNN interview with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during his visit to Washington in February 2022, he was asked why Germany, with our particular history, had not joined the political boycott of the Winter Olympics in China on the grounds of human rights infractions. Germany had never planned to send politicians to the games and saw no reason to join a boycott. Scholz patiently answered the question (twice) by explaining that his country has passed supply chain legislation that will be more effective than any boycott. As Germans, we have learned from our history and as we face new anti-semitic challenges from right-wing groups we know that we cannot ignore the terrible crimes committed in the past. We need to educate each generation about the horrors committed by the Nazis. As a Holocaust survivor, Max Mannheimer said, "You are n