United Nations, USC Shoah Foundation Institute, and Yad Vashem to release new educational resource.
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Joseph Steiner remembers when Nazi Germany invaded his home country, Hungary. He speaks on the anti-Semitism he experienced from neighbors, which he said was influenced by Nazi propaganda and hatred.

 

“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.

Attendees tour Holocaust-related sites.
During her month in residence at USC Shoah Foundation, Walch will research the exclusion of German Jews from their own homeland during the Holocaust through Nazi policies restricting Jewish spaces and architecture.

As a young girl Hedy Epstein returned home from school in Nazi Germany to find her house empty, locked and her parents nowhere to be found. She describes the terrifying confrontation with a Nazi when looking for her parents.