News By Year and Month
Marta Wise, 88, Child Survivor in Iconic Auschwitz Photo, Focused on Educating Young People
USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of Marta (Weiss) Wise, who was ten years old when she was liberated from Auschwitz, having endured the medical torture of Josef Mengele, along with her sister,…
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Center Founding Director Wolf Gruner Authors New Book About Individual Jewish Resistance to Nazi Persecution
The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research is delighted to announce the upcoming publication of the book Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany. Authored…
Friday, May 19, 2023
USC Shoah Foundation Launches Lecture Series to Address Antisemitism
USC Shoah Foundation this fall launches a new Antisemitism Lecture Series to showcase to wider audiences the latest scholarly research on the topic and convene some of the leading scholars in…
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Reflections on Resistance and Roots of Research
In this blog, the Center's 2022-2023 Greenberg Research Fellow Raíssa Alonso reflects on resistance and the roots of her research.
Brazil has had a complicated political past. When you learn…
Friday, May 5, 2023
Presence and Possibilities of Play?
In this blog, Center visiting scholar Robson Bello discusses his focus on play during his month of research.
The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga, in his important book Homo Ludens, defined …
Thursday, May 4, 2023