Maetal Haas-Kogan
When Maetal Haas-Kogan was just a few months old, her great-grandfather Benjamin Oudkerk gave his testimony to USC Shoah Foundation. Now, she’s a Harvard freshman and spending half of her winter break interning in USC Shoah Foundation’s education department.
Haas-Kogan said she grew up hearing stories about her family’s survival of the Holocaust. Her great-grandfather had survived the war mostly hiding in the home of friends who were also part of the resistance underground movement, and adopted her grandfather as a young boy after the war.
February Institute Visit: RSVP to Attend
Public visits to USC Shoah Foundation give guests a chance to explore the life stories of survivors and witnesses to genocide preserved in the Visual History Archive, and how testimony is used to overcome prejudice, intolerance and hatred.
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Holocaust Geographies Collaborative Returning to USC Shoah Foundation Next Week
The four scholars who two years ago found their research transformed by the Visual History Archive will return to USC Shoah Foundation for a public presentation and a week of conducting new research.
Concentration Camps: A Global History
A lecture by Dan Stone (Royal Holloway, University of London)
USC, Herklotz Room, Doheny Memorial Library (Music Library)
IWitness Publishes “The Bystander Effect” Activity about the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda
Students all over the world can now complete an IWitness activity about the dangers of being a bystander that was first piloted in the United States and Rwanda.