Jewish Holocaust Survivor
Gender: Male
DOB: March 25, 1917
City of birth: Bremen
Country of birth: Germany
Ghettos: No
Went into hiding: No
Fled Nazi-occupied Territory: Yes
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In this blog, Center visiting scholar Robson Bello discusses his focus on play during his month of research.
Over the course of 2016, testimony from USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive contributed to a wide array of published texts, from studies about the methodology of the Institute’s interviewing and cataloguing, to wholly other subjects that pulled from the VHA to back a defined thesis.
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research welcomed the University of Munich’s Maximilian Strnad to USC last week.
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research Director Wolf Gruner will give a lecture at Cornell University, as well as conduct a workshop on testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive.
"Defiance and Protest: Forgotten Individual Jewish Reactions to the Persecution in Nazi Germany"
As the Allies retook control of lands that had been occupied by the Germans, they came across many Nazi camps. In some instances, the Nazis had tried to destroy all evidence of the camps, in order to conceal from the world what had happened there. In other cases, only the buildings remained as the Nazis had sent the prisoners elsewhere, often on death marches.
“Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing in the North Caucasus, 1942-43”
Lecture by Crispin Brooks (USC Shoah Foundation)
Crispin Brooks, curator of USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive, will present a paper that examines the parallels of Nazi and Soviet Mass Violence in the Karachai autonomous region, 1942-43. Sponsored by Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies.
USC Social Science Building, Room 250
Contact: vhi-academic@dornsife.usc.edu
We are saddened to learn of the recent passing of Arkadii Vaispapir, one of few people ever to have survived the Sobibór death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Holocaust. He was 96.
Public lecture by Bieke Van Camp (PhD candidate, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France)
2018-2019 Katz Research Fellow
At a first glance The Yellow Spot: The Extermination of the Jews in Germany is a book about the Holocaust. But in fact, it was published in 1936, after just three years of Nazi rule — and a full five years before the first gas chambers were commissioned for the murder of European Jewry. The authors spend 287 pages detailing a series of laws and actions taken against the Jews. Their conclusion was that the “legal disability” being imposed by the Nazis upon the Jews ultimately would result in their elimination. (Originally published by The Hollywood Reporter.)