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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

Speaking About Sexuality: Male Jewish Intimacy and Agency in Oral History Interviews

An online lecture by Florian Zabransky (PhD candidate at the Weidenfeld Institute–Centre for German-Jewish Studies at University of Sussex, UK)
2020-2021 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow

Organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Cosponsored by the USC Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies

Ethics, Justice and the Holocaust

The online discussion will bring together experts to consider the issue of medical ethics during, and in response to, the Holocaust. Panelists will discuss educational initiatives that draw on the history of the Holocaust to develop ethical leadership in a contemporary context.

Rachael Cerrotti, author of We Share the Same Sky, in conversation with Lisa Hofheimer

​We Share the Same Sky weaves together the stories of these two young women--Hana as a refugee who remains one step ahead of the Nazis at every turn, and Rachael, whose insatiable curiosity to touch the past guides her into the lives of countless strangers, bringing her love and tragic loss. Throughout the course of her twenties, Hana's history becomes a guidebook for Rachael in how to live a life empowered by grief.

Addressing antisemitism through education

Join UNESCO and USC Shoah Foundation for a virtual panel discussion on the topic of “How to counter antisemitism: the role of educators and education.”

"We Share the Same Sky" with Rachael Cerrotti

Join the Montreal Holocaust Museum, USC Shoah Foundation, and Paragraphe Bookstore for a special event with author Rachael Cerrotti about her latest book “We Share the Same Sky” based on her award-winning podcast.

Identity, Belonging, Legacy

Explore the ways that our lives can be shaped by the experiences of our ancestors through the power of firsthand testimonies.

Seventy-five Years After Nuremberg

Join Ashley K. Fernandes, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine for a webinar commemorating the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the Doctors Trial at Nuremberg, where physicians were placed on trial for their active participation in the labeling, persecution, and eventual mass murder of those deemed “lives unworthy of living.”

Volevo Solo Vivere Screening

This documentary chronicles the Holocaust as experienced in Italy, from the racial laws Mussolini enacted in 1938 through the German invasion in 1943 and the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945. The experiences are made personal through the use of testimony from the archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education. Nine Italian citizens, all survivors of Auschwitz, share their stories; their testimonies are woven among personal and historical photographs and additional archival footage.

Strategies for Fighting Anti-Semitism in the United States

1:00 pm PST/4:00 pm EST/8:00 am AEDT (+1) 

Join USC Annenberg for a conversation about combatting anti-Semitism in the United States.