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We are saddened to learn of the passing of György Kun, who gave his testimony in October 1999 in Budapest, Hungary. His daughter, Andrea Szonyis, an educator and former colleague at the USC Shoah Foundation, authored a story in the series "Voices from the Archive” about her father.
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Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 4:13pm
LOS ANGELES, CA (Feb. 11, 2025) — The USC Shoah Foundation announced the appointment of Dr. Brian Hughes as the inaugural Director of its Countering Antisemitism Laboratory, marking a significant expansion of the institute's mission to combat hatred through research, education and action. Read More
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 10:39am
Upcoming Events
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Mar
When the Fragmented becomes the Stitched: Engaging Students through Research
USC Shoah Foundation Event
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...
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March 27, 2025
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Online Event
09
Apr
Forced into Transit: Global Perspectives on Refugees Fleeing Nazi Persecution
USC Shoah Foundation Event
The talk introduces transit as a concept to analyze spatial and temporal experiences of Jewish or political refugees from Nazi persecution, starting first in 1933 in Germany and later on in Austria, Czechoslovakia, and all over Europe. …
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April 9, 2025
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Online Event
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