Julie Fitzpatrick Awarded 2023-2024 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship
Fri, 07/07/2023 - 12:05pm
Julie Fitzpatrick, a PhD candidate in History at Royal Holloway, University of London, has been awarded the 2023-2024 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research. She will be in residence at the Center for a month from mid-October to mid-November 2023 to conduct research for her dissertation, which is currently entitled "‘Light the Candles and Lay the Table’: A Study on German-Jewish Women’s Relationship with Food During the Prewar, Wartime and Postwar Eras."
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Clara Dijkstra Awarded 2023-2024 USC Shoah Foundation Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies
Fri, 07/07/2023 - 12:00pm
Clara Dijkstra, a PhD candidate in History at the University of Cambridge, Christ’s College, has been awarded the 2023-2024 USC Shoah Foundation Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies. She will be in residence at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research in September 2023 to conduct research on the experiences of Jews and Roma (Tsiganes) in detention and internment camps in France during the Second World War.
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Clara Dijkstra Awarded 2023-2024 USC Shoah Foundation Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies
Fri, 07/07/2023 - 12:00pm
Clara Dijkstra, a PhD candidate in History at the University of Cambridge, Christ’s College, has been awarded the 2023-2024 USC Shoah Foundation Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies. She will be in residence at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research in September 2023 to conduct research on the experiences of Jews and Roma (Tsiganes) in detention and internment camps in France during the Second World War.
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Alexandra Szabó Awarded 2023-2024 Greenberg Research Fellowship
Fri, 07/07/2023 - 11:55am
Alexandra Szabó, a PhD candidate in History at Brandeis University, has been awarded the 2023-2024 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellowship at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research. She will be residence for a month during the Spring 2024 semester to conduct research for her dissertation, in which she investigates Hungarian Romani and Jewish women’s experiences of fertility abuses (failed pregnancies, miscarriages, sterilizations, postwar infertility) in the shadow of Nazi persecution.
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Sterilization and Castration Abuse in Nazi Camps: A Case Study of Hungarian Roma and Jews
July 12, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - July 12, 2023 @ 1:00 pm
An online lecture by Alexandra Szabó (PhD candidate in History, Brandeis University)
2022-2023 Strauss Fellow at the Cedars-Sinai Center for Medicine, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Visiting scholar at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research, Summer 2023
NEH Grant to Fund Transcription, Translation of Guatemalan Genocide Survivor Testimonies
Thu, 06/29/2023 - 1:50pm
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A longtime scholar affiliate of the USC Shoah Foundation has received a $50,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to transcribe and translate the Maya-Kaqchikel and Spanish-language testimonies of survivors of the Guatemalan genocide.
We Remember Damas Gisimba, 61, Savior of More than 400 Rwandans During Genocide
Thu, 06/29/2023 - 7:18am
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The USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of Damas Gisimba, the director of a Kigali orphanage who sheltered and saved the lives of over 400 people, mostly children, during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Later in life, he headed the Gisimba Memorial Center, a charitable organization that provided after-school programs for disadvantaged children and served as a place of remembrance for victims of the genocide.
Defying Horrors of Teenage Years in Auschwitz, Joshua Kaufman, 95, Embraced Life
Tue, 06/27/2023 - 10:47am
The USC Shoah Foundation mourns the June 6, 2023 passing of Joshua Kaufman, who survived Auschwitz and was liberated at Dachau Concentration Camp at the age of 17, and was recognized at the 2019 State of the Union address in Washington, D.C. He was 95.