News By Year and Month

80 years ago: An international conference to discuss Jewish refugees ends in failure

Eighty years ago, at the behest of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, representatives from 32 countries convened for a refugee conference in Evian-les-Bains, France to address a gathering storm in…
Friday, June 29, 2018

Kimberly Cheng Awarded 2018-2019 Breslauer, Rutman and Anderson Research Fellowship

Kimberly Cheng, a PhD candidate in the Joint PhD Program in Hebrew and Judaic Studies and History at New York University, has been awarded the 2018-2019 Breslauer, Rutman and Anderson Research…
Friday, June 29, 2018

Center for Advanced Genocide Research Awards 2018-2019 International Teaching Fellowship to Ildikó Barna

Ildikó Barna, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences and Program Director of the department’s Ethnic and Minority Policy MA Program at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE),…
Friday, June 29, 2018

Karen Painter to visit Center for Advanced Genocide Research as 2018-2019 International Teaching Fellow Honorable Mention

Karen Painter, Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities will be visiting the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research for one week this summer…
Friday, June 29, 2018

Center for Advanced Genocide Research Awards Inaugural Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship to Virginia Bullington

Virginia Bullington, a sophomore at USC from Nantucket, Massachusetts majoring in American Studies and Narrative Studies, has been chosen as the first-ever Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellow…
Friday, June 29, 2018

Sanna Stegmaier Awarded 2018-2019 Center Graduate Research Fellow Honorable Mention

Sanna Stegmaier, a second-year joint PhD student in German Studies and Cultural Studies at King’s College, London and Humboldt University, Berlin, has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2018…
Friday, June 29, 2018

Librarian's Corner: MSU Librarian Deborah Margolis Visits the Center for Advanced Genocide Research

This article is part of a newsletter series introducing librarians who are advocates for the VHA at their institutions. In the first part of our Librarian’s Corner series, we are…
Friday, June 29, 2018

Visiting Scholars Spend Summer Exploring the Visual History Archive

This summer, the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research is hosting three visiting scholars, who have traveled from across the country to conduct research in the Visual History…
Thursday, June 28, 2018

Women at Nuremberg: Vivien Spitz

Editor’s Note: USC Shoah Foundation is spotlighting the under-examined efforts of women at the Nuremberg Trials in an eight-part series of stories that each focuses on the contribution of a different…
Tuesday, June 26, 2018

USC literature professor receives USC Shoah Foundation grant for innovative use of poetry by genocide survivors

EDITOR’S NOTE: USC Shoah Foundation this year launched an initiative to give out small grants to USC professors of any discipline who incorporate the Institute’s archive of genocide-survivor…
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Facebook Fans the Flames of Violence Against the Rohingya

When I met the war photographer, he was having his morning coffee on the beach. He had already been in Cox’s Bazar for a month for The New York Times and had no idea when he was going back home. …
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Call for Papers: The Future of Holocaust Testimonies V

Call for Papers: The Future of Holocaust Testimonies V: An International Conference and Workshop March 11-13, 2019 The Holocaust Studies Program of Western Galilee College,…
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

IWitness Video Challenge winners prompt fellow students to reflect on immigration struggles of their ancestors

The United States is a large and diverse country, but the family trees of many Americans are rooted in the challenges of being an immigrant. That is a key takeaway from this year's winning entry…
Monday, June 18, 2018

In Memory of Gena Turgel, the 'Bride of Belsen' who cared for Anne Frank

USC Shoah Foundation mourns the recent passing of Gena Turgel, a Holocaust survivor who married a British liberator of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, where she was…
Thursday, June 14, 2018

Women at Nuremberg: Belle Mayer Zeck

Editor’s Note: USC Shoah Foundation is spotlighting the under-examined efforts of women at the Nuremberg Trials in an eight-part series of stories that each focuses on the contribution of a different…
Monday, June 11, 2018

Librarian at Michigan State University is an ambassador for the Visual History Archive

To date, about 90 universities around the world have a subscription to the Visual History Archive. At Michigan State University, which signed on three years ago, students and faculty benefit from an…
Thursday, June 7, 2018

D-Day Anniversary: Army war photographer recalls the story of a dramatic rescue photo

Aboard a landing craft en route to Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, Walter Rosenblum, age 24, had never seen a dead body. But then the hatch opened, exposing troops to German gunfire from the hills…
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Why are dozens of streets in New Jersey named after Oskar Schindler?

Atop the piano in Ruth Katz’s childhood home was a picture of a man she knew only as “Uncle Oskar.” Her father, Abraham Zuckerman, had lost his entire family during the Holocaust and wanted his…
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

The racism of the Jim Crow South and Nazi Germany are compared and analyzed at seminar co-led by USC Shoah Foundation’s Wolf Gruner

In the segregated American South, racist laws banning blacks from public places such as libraries and swimming pools were instituted at the local level. In Germany, laws placing similar…
Monday, June 4, 2018

UNESCO to use new USC Shoah Foundation testimonies in initiative to counter rising antisemitism

Chouna Lomponda, the communications director of the Jewish Museum of Belgium; Viviane Teitelbaum, member of the Brussels Parliament in Belgium; Abdelghani Merah, brother of Mohammed Merah, a…
Friday, June 1, 2018