Research With Testimonies: Featuring the Center's 2021 Lev Student Research Fellows

Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - 02:39 AM PDT

A public event with Nicholas Bredie (PhD candidate, Literature and Creative Writing, USC) and Atharva Tewari (USC undergraduate student, Global Studies and Journalism major)
2021 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellows
(Join us in person for this lecture or attend virtually on Zoom) 

Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research

Shades of Agency: Choice, Survival, and Resistance of Jewish Women During the Holocaust in Transnistria

Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - 02:39 AM PDT

A public lecture by Lilia Tomchuk (PhD candidate in History, Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt, Germany)
2021-2022 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow 
(Join us in person for this lecture or attend virtually on Zoom) 

Organized by USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research

Joe Adamson, Refugee, Interrogator, Regular Dad, Finally Told his Story

By: Julie Gruenbaum Fax

For much of their life, Allen and Peter Adamson didn't know that Joe, their easy-going, suburbanite dad, a VP at a New York plastics company, had a remarkable early history. He had escaped Germany at the age of 14 on the Kindertransport, served as an interrogator with the U.S. Army during the liberation of Mauthausen Concentration Camp, and helped in a U.S. effort to intercept secret messages encoded in German postage stamps.

Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Julie Gruenbaum Fax is a content strategist and writer for the USC Shoah Foundation. She was a senior writer and editor at the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles and has co-authored six personal history books. She is currently writing a book about her grandmother’s Holocaust experience.

2022 Stronger Than Hate Challenge Launched, Inspires Students to Activism and Creative Expression

USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education today launched the fourth annual Stronger Than Hate Challenge offering students the opportunity to win $10,000 in prizes.

The challenge encourages students aged 13-18 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada to work individually or in groups of 2-4 on multimedia projects that demonstrate the power of story to create a community that is stronger than hate.

USC Shoah Foundation Partners with the Srebrenica Memorial Center, Adds Srebrenica Survivor Testimonies to Visual History Archive

By: Isabel Zarrow

A pilot collection of 20 testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the 1995 genocide that took place in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina has been added to USC Shoah Foundation’s 55,000-strong Visual History Archive (VHA) thanks to a new collaboration with the Srebrenica Memorial Center. 

Isabel Zarrow
Isabel Zarrow is a junior at Boston University majoring in public relations and minoring in business and entrepreneurship. She interned at USC Shoah Foundation in summer 2021.

Isabel Zarrow is a junior at Boston University majoring in public relations and minoring in business and entrepreneurship. She interned at USC Shoah Foundation in summer 2021.
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