Yehuda Bauer and Father Patrick Desbois Presentations

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  2012/04/16: 2012 Yom HaShoah Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Yehuda Bauer, Lecture

  Language: English

  April 16, 2012: Dr. Yehuda Bauer, one of the foremost authorities on the subject of the Holocaust, made an exclusive trip to Los Angeles to give the Institute's inaugural Yom Hashoah lecture. Bauer, who is the Institute's scholar-in-residence, discussed the roots of genocide and realistic approaches to overcoming it.
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  2012/04/19: 2012 Yom HaShoah Commemoration Keynote Speech with Father Desbois

  Language: English

  April 19, 2012: For the Institute's Yom HaShoah Commemoration Event on Thursday, April 19, 2012, Father Patrick Desbois, a Catholic priest and author of The Holocaust by Bullets, gave a keynote address discussing his field research on identifying sites of mass executions in Ukraine. Students, community members, faculty, and staff gathered for a moving evening, which also included readings by USC students, live music, a candle lighting, and prayer. The event was cosponsored by USC Hillel, Chabad at USC, the Casden Institute, the Louchheim School for Judaic Studies, the Office of Religious Life, and the Shoah Foundation Institute Student Association.