Lecture: Nazis used photography to conceal the truth of life in concentration camps during the Holocaust

Instead of factories of death, these black-and-white stills convey the idea that soldiers are happy and prisoners are mere criminals serving a sentence. A research fellow with USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research discussed his findings on this topic in a lecture.

Lukas Meissel lectures about photographic practices in Nazi concentration camps

 

“SS-Photographs from Concentration Camps. Perpetrator Sources and Counter-Narratives”

Lukas Meissel (Ph.D. Candidate in Holocaust Studies, University of Haifa)

2018-2019 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow

February 12, 2019

 

Lukas Meissel, the 2018-2019 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow, gave a public lecture on the research he conducted during his month-long residency at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research.

Preserving History: Armenian Voices from the Classroom to the Archive

Friday, June 27, 2025 - 10:22 PM PDT

A public lecture by Richard G. Hovannisian (Professor Emeritus, UCLA)
with commentary by Lorna Touryan Miller, Tamar Mashigian, and Salpi Ghazarian

Co-sponsored by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies

Fascism’s Global Moments: New Perspectives on Entanglements and Tensions between Fascist Regimes in the 1930s and 1940s

Friday, June 27, 2025 - 10:22 PM PDT

A public lecture by Professor Sven Reichardt (University of Konstanz, Germany)

Organized by the USC Max Kade Institute and co-sponsored by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research

Who is a Survivor?

By: Ivy Schamis

As a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, who survived the tragedy on Feb. 14, 2018, I have spent the past year grappling with this question.
Ivy Schamis

Butterflies Inspire Empathy and Counter Hate in Germany

By: Steven Schindler

On January 25, 2019, the fifth- and sixth-graders of a school in Cottbus, Germany honored all those affected during the Holocaust by unveiling a Butterfly Project memorial to the 1.5 million children murdered during this dark moment in history. This first-ever initiative in Germany introduced a new, younger audience to real stories of local children.
Steven Schindler
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