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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
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
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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
One year after synagogue shooting, the Institute trains Pittsburgh teachers on using testimony to prompt difficult conversations
Leading up to the one-year anniversary of the deadly synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, USC Shoah Foundation staff members trained educators in that metro area last week about how to use video…
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
“Why We Hate” docuseries on Discovery kicks off with a panel that included a former Nazi and a genocide survivor
When Ursula Martens was a little girl living in Germany, she was happy to be forced by law at age 10 to join the Hitler Youth.
“Everything was free,” she said. “You could go to theaters. ……
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Dimensions in Testimony theater established at new Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum this month became the second in the world to install a permanent theater to display Dimensions in Testimony – an interactive, holographic project…
Sunday, October 6, 2019
The Center Announces 2020 International Conference: "Mass Violence and Its Lasting Impact on Indigenous Peoples - The Case of the Americas and Australia"
In 2020, on Indigenous Peoples' Day (formerly known as Columbus Day) -- October 12, 2020 -- the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research will launch a three-day international…
Friday, October 4, 2019
“We Share The Same Sky” Is The First Testimony-Based Podcast Presented By USC Shoah Foundation
Award-Winning Photographer, Writer and Educator Rachael Cerrotti Tells the Extraordinary Story of Her Grandmother’s Escape from the Nazis by Retracing Her Grandmother’s Steps…
Monday, September 30, 2019
In memory of Holocaust survivor Jack Welner, who became soulmates with his USC Shoah Foundation interviewer
We are saddened to hear of the recent passing of Jack Welner, who survived a Jewish ghetto in Poland, a labor camp near the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, and the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in…
Friday, September 27, 2019
Antisemitism and Sports
Jewish track-and-field athlete Margaret Lambert remembers the pressure she felt when competing in the Adolf Hitler Stadium during the 1936 Olympic tryouts for a non-Jewish audience that objected to…
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Personal stories of surviving the Holocaust unveiled at powerful art exhibition
Painter David Kassan has sat with survivors of the Holocaust for countless hours during the past five years, carefully listening to their stories of pain, grief, resilience and quiet victory.
He has…
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Swedish History Museum’s first-ever Holocaust exhibit a success
Early this year, when the Swedish History Museum opened its exhibit about the Holocaust – an exhibit that includes USC Shoah Foundation testimonies and some of its interactive biographies – it marked…
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Call for Papers: The Future of Holocaust Testimonies: Preserving, Researching, and Re-Presenting Survivor’s Voices
Survivors and their testimonies have been central to Holocaust research and memorial culture. Even before the end of the Shoah, survivor historians in parts of Eastern Europe liberated from Nazi…
Friday, September 6, 2019
Call for Applications: 2020-2021 PhD Candidate Fellowships
Call for Applications from PhD Candidates
Greenberg Research Fellowship
Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies
Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship
2020-2021
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Friday, September 6, 2019
The Center Awards Third Interdisciplinary Research Week Opportunity to International Team
Each year, the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research hosts an interdisciplinary team of scholars from different universities and different countries for one week so that they can…
Friday, September 6, 2019
USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education Award $10,000 in Scholarships and Prizes to 2019 ‘Stronger Than Hate Challenge’ Winners
In an effort to spark a social movement against hatred in all forms, USC Shoah Foundation, established by Steven Spielberg after his experience filming “Schindler’s List”— which gave voice to…
Thursday, September 5, 2019
Call for Applications: 2019-2020 Teaching Fellowship at Cornell University
Call for Application
2019-2020 Teaching Fellowship
Cornell University
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites proposals for its 2019-2020 Teaching…
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
A chance encounter leads to a surprising reunion
Move-in day for students at the University of Southern California this week led to a remarkable small-world moment between two strangers with ties to the Holocaust in the public-exhibit space of USC…
Friday, August 23, 2019
USC Shoah Foundation expands its collection of Guatemalan Genocide testimonies
Their loved ones – including women and children – were slaughtered by the military and tossed into mass graves.
For more than 30 years, survivors of the Guatemalan Genocide against the…
Friday, August 9, 2019