Life as a ‘half immigrant’: growing up Armenian in the Central Valley
Historian Richard G. Hovannisian talks of straddling two cultures — and the ‘forgotten genocide’
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research: "Ritualcide: Priming Mass Violence and Terror Under the Khmer Rouge"
Doheny Memorial Library Room 240
USC Shoah Foundation helps commemorate Auschwitz liberation anniversary
It took months of preparation. But there is little one can do to prepare for a visit to Auschwitz.
Auschwitz As We Know It
Auschwitz was one of five death camps established by the Nazis in Poland where Jews were taken to be murdered during the so-called “Final Solution,” a euphemism for the their genocide. We know it through the horrific photos of trains filled with Jews, of men being split from women, parents from children, of the uniformed Nazi wagging his finger, and of the brick chimneys billowing smoke. But there is a much more intimate story still to be heard.
Finding the Children Behind the Barbed Wire
USC Shoah Foundation spent seven months researching the identities of every child in the liberation photo of the children behind the barbed wire, and reunited four of them yesterday in Krakow.