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Center for Advanced Genocide Research conference yields book about Kristallnacht

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research is proud to announce the publication of a new book entitled New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years, the Nazi…
Saturday, November 30, 2019

CAGR Conference Summary - The Future of Holocaust Testimonies V (March 2019)

“The Future of Holocaust Testimonies V” Western Galilee College, Akko, Israel March 11-13, 2019 The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research's founding director…
Saturday, November 30, 2019

CAGR Conference Summary - In Global Transit: Forced Migration of Jews and Other Refugees (1940s -1960s) (May 2019)

“In Global Transit: Forced Migration of Jews and Other Refugees (1940s - 1960s)” The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley May 20-22, 2019 …
Saturday, November 30, 2019

CAGR Conference Summary - Comparative Lenses: Video Testimonies of Survivors and Eyewitnesses of Genocide and Mass Violence (June 2019)

“Comparative Lenses: Video Testimonies of Survivors and Eyewitnesses of Genocide and Mass Violence” American University of Paris, Paris, France June 6-7, 2019 The…
Saturday, November 30, 2019

Testimonies from 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China fully indexed and subtitled

In China, the number of people still alive who survived the 1937 Nanjing Massacre at the hands of Japanese invaders has fallen to minuscule levels – some experts put the number around 80. USC Shoah…
Monday, November 18, 2019

In memory of Branko Lustig, producer of ‘Schindler’s List’ and a founder of USC Shoah Foundation

Today we mourn the loss of one of our closest friends, Branko Lustig, a Holocaust survivor and two-time Academy Award winner who produced Schindler’s List and played an indispensable role in the…
Thursday, November 14, 2019

Panel: Women in media who have worked in dangerous conflict zones share stories

An ISIS commander. Victims of the Cambodian and Bosnian genocides. Inmates at Guantanamo Bay. They are among the many subjects portrayed in the work of three women who spoke this week about their…
Thursday, November 7, 2019

Uğur Ümit Üngör lectures about pro-state paramilitary violence in Syrian conflict

“Shabbiha: Assad’s Paramilitaries and Mass Violence in Syria” Dr. Uğur Ümit Üngör (Utrecht University, Department of History, and NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and…
Friday, November 1, 2019