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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.

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