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May 2025
05
May
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Monday, May 5, 2025 - 6:00am
The Role of Auschwitz in Holocaust Narratives
Start: Monday, May 5, 2025 - 6:00am
End: Monday, May 5, 2025 - 6:00am
where: Online
USC Shoah Foundation Program Specialist Svetlana Ushakova will present Geographic Perception of Auschwitz in Survivor Memoirs and Testimonies.
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May
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Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 12:00pm
In the Face of Catastrophe, Coherence
Start: Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 12:00pm
End: Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 1:00pm
where: Online
In this talk, Miriam Udel will consider the place of the children’s Yiddish Holocaust canon within a broader set of Jewish literary resources for depicting anti-Jewish violence, resistance and survival.
April 2025
27
April
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Sunday, April 27, 2025 - 2:00pm
Colleyville: A Story of Jewish Heroism and Triumph in the Face of Terror
Start: Sunday, April 27, 2025 - 2:00pm
End: Sunday, April 27, 2025 - 2:00pm
where: Online
This event will feature a screening of Colleyville, followed by a panel discussion with the heroic survivors of the terror incident, moderated by Brian Hughes, director of the USC Shoah Foundation Countering Antisemitism Laboratory.
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April
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Monday, April 21, 2025 - 11:00am
Jewish Refugees in the Global South
Start: Monday, April 21, 2025 - 11:00am
End: Monday, April 21, 2025 - 11:00am
where: Doheny Memorial Library, Room 240, Los Angeles
Professor Atina Grossmann shares exciting new work by herself and a transnational cohort of Holocaust scholars on the ambivalent, paradoxical, and varied experiences, emotions, and memories of Jews who found refuge from National Socialism and the Holocaust in India and Iran after 1933.
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April
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Saturday, April 12, 2025 - 2:00pm
The Armenian Genocide Martyrs Monument
Start: Saturday, April 12, 2025 - 2:00pm
End: Saturday, April 12, 2025 - 2:00pm
where: Online
We invite educators to engage with our testimony-based IWalk, “The Armenian Genocide Martyrs Monument: Community, Memorialization and Commemoration”, which contextualizes and humanizes the history of the Armenian Genocide and the establishment of Armenian Genocide Martyrs Monument at Bicknell Park in Montebello, California.
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April
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Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 6:30pm
Building Bridges
Start: Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 6:30pm
End: Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 8:30pm
where: Holocaust Museum Los Angeles , Los Angeles
In honor of Armenian Heritage Month, join us for a conversation with grandchildren of Armenian Genocide survivors and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.
March 2025
27
March
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Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 1:00pm
When the Fragmented becomes the Stitched
Start: Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 1:00pm
End: Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 1:00pm
where: Online
In a follow up to her inaugural lecture series, Mélanie Péron will discuss how she and her students at the University of Pennsylvania drew upon a wealth of different sources such as diaries and archives to reconstruct the individual stories of Jewish children and their families in occupied France before they were reduced to a typed line on a deportation list and the importance of using sources such as diaries and video testimonies to teach about the Shoah despite the inexorable disappearance of the last remaining witnesses.
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March
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Thursday, March 13, 2025 - 11:00am
Neonazism in Transnational Perspective
Start: Thursday, March 13, 2025 - 11:00am
End: Thursday, March 13, 2025 - 11:00am
where: Online
Join us as Professors Michelle Lynn Kahn and Steven J. from the University of Southern California’s Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life, explore the lingering international support for Nazism post World War II.
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March
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Wednesday, March 12, 2025 - 10:00am
For The Living
Start: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 - 10:00am
End: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 - 1:00pm
where: USC Doheny Library (DML 241)
Join us in person for an exclusive screening of For the Living and a discussion with the USC Shoah Foundation Senior Director of Programs, Dr. Catherine Clark, and Executive Producer of the film, Melinda Goldrich.

For the Living is the story of 250 cyclists who travel to Poland and retrace the liberation path of Holocaust survivor Marcel Zielinski from Auschwitz-Birkenau to Kraków. Their 60-mile odyssey inspires an urgent examination of humanity's equally perilous journey from dehumanization to compassion.
February 2025
21
February
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Friday, February 21, 2025 - 12:30pm
Jewish Languages Today
Start: Friday, February 21, 2025 - 12:30pm
End: Friday, February 21, 2025 - 12:30pm
where: Online
Join Dr. Sarah Bunin Benor as she discusses the historical events that have led to major changes in the linguistic profile of Jewish communities around the world.
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February
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Thursday, February 13, 2025 - 12:00pm
‘How Can They Find You If You Don’t Exist?’
Start: Thursday, February 13, 2025 - 12:00pm
End: Thursday, February 13, 2025 - 12:00pm
where: Online
Join us for a talk examining the strategies of concealment described in the USC Shoah Foundation testimonies of Jewish refugees who made the journey to Japan to escape Nazi persecution in the early 1940s.
02
February
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Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 4:00pm
Fighting antisemitism and preserving the memory of the Holocaust: advances in Greece and Europe?
Start: Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 4:00pm
End: Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 4:00pm
where: Online
Please join the USC Shoah Foundation and our partners at UCLA as we hear from Dr. Leon Saltiel who will focus on the challenges of grappling with the past and with current antisemitism.
January 2025
23
January
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Thursday, January 23, 2025 - 1:00pm
Antisemitism and Higher Education After 10/7
Start: Thursday, January 23, 2025 - 1:00pm
End: Thursday, January 23, 2025 - 1:00pm
where: Online
Campuses and communities alike have been roiled by intensified antisemitism in the wake of the Hamas assault. The worsening environment shows little evidence of disappearing. What are its roots and what can we do to combat it?
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January
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 - 7:00am
Digital Frontlines
Start: Wednesday, January 15, 2025 - 7:00am
End: Wednesday, January 15, 2025 - 9:30am
where: Online
Join us online for a timely two-part program that brings together leading experts to examine the complex intersection of technologies, digital platforms, and antisemitism.
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January
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Tuesday, January 7, 2025 - 11:00am
Stitching the Fragmented
Start: Tuesday, January 7, 2025 - 11:00am
End: Tuesday, January 7, 2025 - 11:00am
where: Online
For the inaugural event in the Stanley D. Ginsburg USC Shoah Foundation Lecture Series, Mélanie Péron will explore the work of Hélène Berr, a volunteer at the Union Générale des Israélites de France (UGIF) who sheltered four Jewish children during the occupation of France.
December 2024
05
December
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Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 2:00pm
Jews, Money, Myth: The Medieval Origins of a Modern Stereotype
Start: Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 2:00pm
End: Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 2:00pm
where: Online
The standard narrative of Jews as moneylenders in medieval Europe gained prominence in the 19th and 20th centuries and persists today. How did this myth emerge as a response to modern political antisemitism?

Join us on December 5 as Professor Julie Mell, author of The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender, challenges this narrative. She will explore its origins, revealing that it was not a reflection of social reality in medieval Europe but rather an outgrowth of Christian crusading and economic theology.
October 2024
13
October
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Sunday, October 13, 2024 - 12:45pm
Ambassadors for Humanity 2024 Gala
Start: Sunday, October 13, 2024 - 12:45pm
End: Sunday, October 13, 2024 - 12:45pm
where: Online
In 1994, the USC Shoah Foundation launched an unprecedented effort to record, preserve, and share the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Over the past 30 years, we have built a world-class institute anchored in their voices. Today, as Holocaust memory fades and we confront new forces of hatred and antisemitism, the promise we made to survivors 30 years ago demands renewed action.
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October
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Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 11:30am
Archives and Testimony in the Wake of October 7th
Start: Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 11:30am
End: Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 11:30am
where: Online
This event will bring together leading perspectives from researchers, academics and historical archival institutions to explore the pressing challenges and emerging opportunities for building, preserving, and providing access to archives.
September 2024
24
September
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Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 2:00pm
The Origins of Christian Anti-Judaism
Start: Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 2:00pm
End: Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 2:00pm
where: Online
Although antipathy toward Jews and Judaism became a hallmark of medieval Christianity, pinpointing the ancient origins of Christian Anti-Judaism poses challenges. Rabbi Joshua Garroway, PhD, examines the writings of Paul, Justin, Augustine, and other early Christian thinkers to trace the origins of Christian Anti-Judaism.
June 2024
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June
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Thursday, June 13, 2024 - 1:00pm
The End of the Asylum: Institutions for the Disabled Between Care and Killing
Start: Thursday, June 13, 2024 - 1:00pm
End: Thursday, June 13, 2024 - 1:00pm
where: Online
Warren Rosenblum, Professor of History at Webster University, St. Louis, will discuss his research on the history of disability during both the Weimar Republic and Third Reich. He will further explore how Nazi conspiratorial theories about antisemitism and persons with disabilities are linked through fear of the “other."
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