Lorena Sekwan Fontaine Lectures About Linguistic and Cultural Genocide and Redress in Canada
“Redress for Linguistic Genocide in Canada”
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine (University of Winnipeg/San Diego State University)
February 17, 2022
Sara R. Horowitz Gives Annual Shapiro Scholar Lecture: "Reclaiming the 'Ruins of Memory': Gender, Agency, and Imagination in Stories of the Shoah"
The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the USC Shoah Foundation present
Annual Sara and Asa Shapiro Lecture by Prof. Sara R. Horowitz (Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities, York University, Canada)
2020-2021 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence
(Join us in person for this lecture or attend virtually on Zoom)
Ukraine under attack
We stand with our programmatic partners in both Ukraine and Russia who continue the hard work of building more tolerant communities by educating about the horrors of the Holocaust and the consequences of unchecked hatred. We are deeply disturbed by Russian President Vladimir Putin's call to "denazify" Ukraine—a country with a Jewish president who lost family members in the Holocaust—and by his unfounded claim that the military incursion was justified by “genocide” in Ukraine.
Biomedical Ethics and the Individual Voice
This panel will feature a conversation with the interactive biography of Eva Kor (1934-2019), a survivor of Josef Mengele’s infamous twin experiments and an advocate for human rights and ethical practice in medicine.
Call for Applications: Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship Summer 2022
Call for Applications
Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship
Summer 2022
More than 2,300 testimonies collected by the Holocaust Documentation & Education Center in Dania Beach are now being added to Steven Spielberg’s USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive.
Dimensions in Testimony in IWitness Pilot in South Africa Draws Praise from Students, Educators—and Interview Subject Pinchas Gutter
Making DiT accessible at no-cost to educators and students through IWitness provides students anywhere in the world with the opportunity to have a conversational experience with survivors of the Holocaust and other witnesses to history. And at the Holocaust & Genocide Centres in Johannesburg and Durban, that’s exactly what students did, with a total of 400 learners interfacing with an interactive recorded video of Pinchas, a Jewish survivor of six Nazi concentration camps.