b'IMPACT: KNOWING THE STORYReshaping ourHolocaust. When many of us think of the Holocaust, we think of Auschwitz. Professor Hayes emphasized that Understanding of theby the time the gas chambers at Auschwitz as we know Holocaust them today were constructed in spring of 1943, more than three-quarters of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust In 2015, longtime USC Shoah Foundation board memberhad already been killed. Professor Hayes focused on four Mickey Shapiro endowed the Sara and Asa Shapiroextermination camps that preceded Auschwitz - Chelmno, Scholar in Residence fellowship in honor of his parents,Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka - pointing out that while who both survived the Holocaust. Intended to inspiretens of thousands of people survived the camp complex prominent scholars and available only through invitation,at Auschwitz, not more than 100 people in total survived it is the most esteemed fellowship bestowed by USCthese four camps. Challenging the notion of industrial Shoah Foundation. In March, the fifth Sara and Asakilling, he argued that the Holocaust at its peak was Shapiro Scholar in Residence Peter Hayes (Northwesternmarked by poorly planned massacres, sparse resources, University) visited the Institute for a weeklong residency. chaos and brutality. Even after so much has been written Concluding his visit with his keynote lectureabout the Holocaust, he reflected in a blog about his visit, Makeshift Murder: The Holocaust at its Peak, Professorthe stories he discovered in the Visual History Archive Hayes discussed and dismantled common metaphors andduring his residency are extraordinary and emblematic of images that dominate our popular understanding of thehow much the testimonies can teach us.Peter Hayes, 2019-2020 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in ResidenceWatch Professor Hayes lecture14 2020 ANNUAL REPORT'