News By Year and Month
Latin American Interdisciplinary Research Week Team Returns to the Center
This month, the 2017-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Week team came together again for their second weeklong residency at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research. With its…
Friday, May 31, 2019
Dr. Ruth’s journey: from “Holocaust orphan” to worldwide fame
In the 1980s, a tiny woman in her 50s named Ruth Westheimer shocked and delighted the world with her blunt advice – delivered in a grandmotherly German accent – about sex. She became a media…
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Center for Advanced Genocide Research Awards 2019 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship to Anna Lee
Anna Lee, a junior at USC from Los Angeles, California majoring in English Literature with minors in Spanish and Teaching English as a Second language (TESOL), has been chosen as the 2019 Beth and…
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Holocaust survivors tell their stories on location at concentration camps for 360-degree videos
Max Glauben was 13 when his family’s apartment was destroyed in the historic battle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Eva Kuper was 2 when her mother’s cousin rescued her from a train in the frantic…
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
“Missing Links: Social Bonds and Barriers amongst Italian Jewish Deportees” by Bieke Van Camp (PhD candidate, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France), 2018-2019 Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies, April 23, 2019 (lecture summary)
Bieke Van Camp, the 2018-2019 Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, delivered a public lecture entitled “Missing Links:…
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
“Afterlives: Memories of the Displaced Persons Camps in Italy” by Danielle Willard-Kyle (PhD candidate, Rutgers University, History), 2018-2019 Center Graduate Research Fellow, April 16, 2019 (lecture summary)
Danielle Willard-Kyle, the 2018-2019 Center Graduate Research fellow, gave a public lecture about her month-long research at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research focusing on…
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
“Did Gender Matter During the Holocaust?” by Marion Kaplan (Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History, New York University), 2018-2019 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence, April 11, 2019 (lecture summary)
Professor Marion Kaplan, 2018-2019 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, gave the annual Shapiro Scholar public lecture on…
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
“In Search of the Drowned in the Words of the Saved: Testimonial Fragments of the Holocaust” by Gabor Toth, PhD (University of Oxford) 2018-2019 Center Postdoctoral Research Fellow, April 2, 2019 (lecture summary)
Gabor Toth, 2018-2019 Center Postdoctoral Research Fellow, gave a public lecture at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research focusing on his project to find, represent, and…
Wednesday, May 1, 2019