The Place of Holocaust Survivor Videotestimony: Navigating the Landmarks of First-Person Audio-Visual Representation. In The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture, edited by Aarons V. and Lassner P. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33428-4_36
Collecting, Indexing, and Digitizing Survivor Accounts. In Holocaust Intersections: Genocide and Visual Culture at the New Millenium, edited by Axel Bangert, Robert S.C. Gordon, and Libby Saxton. Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge, pp. 46-55.
The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt. New York: Oxford University Press.
We Remember Karen Wells
We lost a giant in the fight against hate yesterday - Karen Wells, educator from Midland High School in Pleasant Plains, Arkansas, Discovery Education DEN leader, and IWitness Master Educator and Teaching Fellow. The Institute joins her students, Discovery Education colleagues, educators worldwide, friends and her family in mourning her loss.
Stronger than Hate: Our Response to Racism and the Atlanta-Area Spa Killings
Today we mourn the murder of eight people in Georgia that includes six Asian women — and we are appalled by the increased acts of anti-Asian hate and violence across the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sara Horowitz Named 2020-2021 Shapiro Scholar in Residence
Sara R. Horowitz, Professor of Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies at York University and an esteemed scholar of the Holocaust, has been named the 2020-2021 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research. She will deliver a public lecture and spend over a week in residence at the Center in March 2022.
Memory Generation Podcast Preview
How can a podcast encapsulate a generational turning point, reveal hidden histories, and make connections between Alfred Hitchcock and the Holocaust? When it is based on USC Shoah's Foundation's Visual History Archive of 55,000 audiovisual testimonies. With testimonies from over 60 countries and many experience groups including the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, the possibilities for connections and intersections are many.
Research With Testimonies: Featuring the Center's 2020 Lev Student Research Fellows
An online event with Lucy Sun (USC undergraduate student, History major) and Rachel Zaretsky (MFA candidate in Art, USC Roski School of Art and Design)
2020 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellows
Organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research