Attack on Ukraine Summons Haunting Echoes of the Past

By: Julie Gruenbaum Fax

Above, Alex Redner with his grandparents in 1937 in Lvov

As the world watches in horror as millions of Ukrainians resist, take shelter or flee from Russian attacks, news reports stir up connections to a haunting past. For many, images of fear and flight from places like L’viv, Kyiv, Donbas, Odesa and Babi Yar summon echoes of the unspeakable inhumanity of the Holocaust.

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.

Lorena Sekwan Fontaine Lectures About Linguistic and Cultural Genocide and Redress in Canada

By: Martha Stroud

“Redress for Linguistic Genocide in Canada”

Lorena Sekwan Fontaine (University of Winnipeg/San Diego State University)

February 17, 2022

Martha Stroud
Martha Stroud manages the day-to-day operations of the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research, which advances innovative interdisciplinary research on the Holocaust and other genocides and promotes use of the Visual History Archive in research and teaching.

Sara R. Horowitz Gives Annual Shapiro Scholar Lecture: "Reclaiming the 'Ruins of Memory': Gender, Agency, and Imagination in Stories of the Shoah"

Saturday, July 12, 2025 - 06:11 AM PDT

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.

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