Thomas Blatt
Antisemitism and the Blood Libel
Our Journey
Behind the Scene
Recovering Victims’ Voices Lecture Series
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The Specter of Persecution
Queer Women in the Third Reich
May 09, 2024 @ 12:00 pm
Samuel Clowes Huneke, author of the award-winning States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany, uncovers stories about queer women during the Third Reich—their treatment in society and opportunities to resist.
Recovering Victims’ Voices Lecture Series
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‘I did not want to die without having kissed a woman’
Queer Desire in the Holocaust
March 28, 2024 @ 11:00 am
Dr. Anna Hájková, pioneer of queer Holocaust history, will discuss why including queer narratives is crucial to developing a deeper understanding of Nazi persecution and societal resistance.
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Start: March 28, 2024 / 11:00 AM
Since the founding of the USC Shoah Foundation in 1994, more than 56,000 survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides have recorded their testimonies for our Visual History Archive. As we mark our 30th anniversary year, we highlight some of these remarkable stories by sharing a curated selection from our Voices from the Archive series. A version of this article originally appeared in 2021 connected to an event on women resistance fighters (watch the event and read more profiles here).
She Smuggled Love, Hope, and Dynamite Over the Ghetto Walls
Tue, 03/12/2024 - 10:40am
In October 1942, when deportations from the Warsaw ghetto paused, more than 20 youth groups and underground units coalesced into a united front. Vladka Meed channeled her despair at losing her family into fighting the Nazis.
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Ben Ferencz 1080
USC Shoah Foundation meets with Herzog
Leading the USC Shoah Foundation Board delegation to Israel were the organization's executive director Dr. Robert J. Williams, a Holocaust historian, and board chairman Joel Citron.