Marisa Fox is a New York-based freelance writer and filmmaker, who received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for her upcoming documentary, My Underground Mother, which delves into her mother’s secret past as a survivor of Nazi-run women’s slave labor. Her features and editorials have appeared in The New York Times, Ms., Elle, Health, Huffington Post, the Forward, CNN and Ha’aretz, where she was a U.S. correspondent. She is also a “She Source” on gender and genocide at the Ms. Foundation’s Women’s Media Center.
After Hamas slaughtered hundreds at the Nova electronic music festival, a group of medical professionals banded together to treat the traumatized survivors.
Too many narratives strip women of agency and accountability, and shield them from wartime guilt. The U.S. can’t afford to make that mistake after Jan. 6.
