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Marta Wise on her personal experience with Holocaust Denial

Marta Wise, 88, Child Survivor in Iconic Auschwitz Photo, Focused on Educating Young People

Thu, 05/25/2023 - 2:01pm

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USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of Marta (Weiss) Wise, who was ten years old when she was liberated from Auschwitz, having endured the medical torture of Josef Mengele, along with her sister, Eva (Weiss) Slonim. She was 88. Marta and Eva were among a group of children pictured in a photograph—a still from a film shot by a Soviet cameraman soon after the liberation of Auschwitz—that became an iconic image of the horrors of the death camp where nearly one million Jews were killed during the Holocaust.
Testimony of the Multitude

Center Founding Director Wolf Gruner Authors New Book About Individual Jewish Resistance to Nazi Persecution

Fri, 05/19/2023 - 4:00pm

The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research is delighted to announce the upcoming publication of the book Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany. Authored by Center Founding Director Wolf Gruner, the book will be published by Yale University Press on August 29, 2023.

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Robson Bello

Robson Bello visited the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research in March 2023 as a Visiting Scholar. He earned his Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD degrees in Social History at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. His dissertation is entitled "The Playground of the Past: Videogames and the Reification of Memory, Play, and the American West" ("O Playground do Passado: Videogame e a reificação da Memória, do Lúdico e do Oeste Americano").

Raíssa Alonso

Raíssa Alonso is the 2022-2023 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research. She is a PhD candidate in Social History at the University of São Paulo in Brazil.

USC Shoah Foundation Launches Lecture Series to Address Antisemitism

Wed, 05/17/2023 - 11:55am

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USC Shoah Foundation this fall launches a new Antisemitism Lecture Series to showcase to wider audiences the latest scholarly research on the topic and convene some of the leading scholars in the field.  

Reflections on Resistance and Roots of Research

Fri, 05/05/2023 - 4:00pm

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In this blog, the Center's 2022-2023 Greenberg Research Fellow Raíssa Alonso reflects on resistance and the roots of her research. 

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If These Bones Could Speak
Early Armenian Pilgrimages to the Killing Fields of Dayr al-Zur

Presence and Possibilities of Play?

Thu, 05/04/2023 - 4:00pm

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In this blog, Center visiting scholar Robson Bello discusses his focus on play during his month of research. 

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