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Center's Outreach and Academic Cooperation in 2019

In 2019, the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research conducted deep and wide-ranging outreach, introducing the Visual History Archive to scholars, academic faculty, fellows,…
Monday, December 30, 2019

A Message of Unity and Action After New York Antisemitic Attacks

We are alarmed by the recent wave of antisemitic violence targeting the Orthodox Jewish communities in the New York region, including at least ten incidents in the past week, culminating in a mass…
Sunday, December 29, 2019

USC Shoah Foundation partners with Fox Searchlight Pictures to launch JOJO RABBIT Education initiative

USC Shoah Foundation —The Institute for Visual History and Education (USC Shoah Foundation) and Fox Searchlight Pictures today announced a partnership to develop…
Thursday, December 19, 2019

Holocaust survivor’s family reads family letters from WWII on stage in Germany

About a month before the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, sparking World War II, a desperate Jewish father in Germany penned a letter in broken English to a friend in England, Mrs. Wolf. “I beg…
Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Ayşenur Korkmaz lectures about the notion of home in Armenian genocide testimonies

“Narratives of ‘Home’: Violence, Spatial Belonging, and Everyday Life for Armenian Genocide Survivors” Ayşenur Korkmaz (PhD candidate in European Studies, University of Amsterdam) 2019…
Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Anna Lee Lecture lectures about survivor activism

“Survivor Activism in the Aftermath of Historical Genocides and Contemporary Mass Shootings” Anna Lee (USC undergraduate, English major, Spanish and TESOL minor) 2019 Beth and Arthur…
Wednesday, December 4, 2019