SS Photographs from Concentration Camps: Perpetrator Sources and Counter-Narratives of Victims
Public lecture by Lukas Meissel (PhD candidate, Haifa University, Israel)
2018-2019 Greenberg Research Fellow
How USC Shoah Foundation inspires me
I have been associated with USC Shoah Foundation since 2007. I attended my first gala that year because a close friend of mine was the honoree. I knew very little about the Institute before attending and I was blown away when I started to learn the story. The mission touched me deeply.
New Perspectives on Kristallnacht (Summary)
“New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison” was an international conference held at USC. Organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the USC Casden Institute, the conference convened 22 scholars from all over the world — the United States, Germany, Israel, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
Call for Applications: 2019-2020 USC-Yale Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University Libraries and the University of Southern California Libraries Collections Convergence Initiative invite applications from postdoctoral scholars for their 2019-2020 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. The fellowship offers a salary of $50,000, medical benefits, as well as a fixed amount for moving expenses between New Haven and Los Angeles. The fellowship will be awarded to an outstanding postdoctoral scholar from any discipline who will advance genocide research through the comparative analysis of testimonies by Holocaust survivors who gave interviews to both the Fortunoff Video Archive and the USC Shoah Foundation.
Call for Applications: 2019-2020 Center Junior Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites applications from postdoctoral scholars for its 2019-2020 Center Junior Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. The fellowship offers an annual salary of $70,000 and will be awarded to an an outstanding junior postdoctoral scholar from any discipline who will advance genocide research through the use of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and other USC resources.
In memory of Selma Engel, one of the few to survive Sobibor
We are saddened to hear of the recent passing of Selma Engel, who, after becoming one of the few people to escape the Sobibor death camp in Poland during the Holocaust, immediately began telling the world what she saw.
Jean-Marc Dreyfus Lecture Summary
Jean-Marc Dreyfus (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
2018-2019 Center Research Fellow
“Corpses of the Holocaust”
November 13, 2018