Armenian Genocide survivor Agnes Dombalian describes how a Turkish gendarme helped Agnes and her family escape from a death march but then kept them as slaves in his own house.

Landing a job at UNESCO was a godsend for Jewish Holocaust survivor Andras Dallos, whose family had been stuck in Hungary, where Jewish persecution remained intense after World War II. The post not only enabled the family to resettle in Islamabad, Pakistan, but also provided financial stability, a pathway for his children to enroll in British universities, and ultimately paved the way for the family to immigrate to the United States.

Holocaust survivor Alicia Appleman-Jurman says children should be protected no matter what, since they are often the first victims of genocide.

Holocaust survivor Alicia Appleman-Jurman reads a passage from her memoir, Alicia: My Story.

Holocaust survivor Olga Levy Drucker describes the Kindertransport and how she became part of it.

Holocaust survivor Lucille Eichengreen describes how her former work in the concentration camp led to the arrest of several SS officers.

Holocaust survivor Robert Fisch explains what he wants people to take away from his illustrated book on the Holocaust.

Holocaust survivor Livia Bitton-Jackson describes the antisemitism she experienced in the buildup to the Holocaust.

Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter describes how he, his mother and sister took the train to Warsaw posing as Christians - which meant that Pinchas's long payos, or sidelocks, needed to be cut. Pinchas describes the experience first in his testimony for the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre in 1993, and then in his testimony for USC Shoah Foundation in 1995.

Holocaust survivor Miriam Ziegler describes her liberation from Auschwitz, first in her testimony for the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre in 1987 and then in her USC Shoah Foundation testimony in 1994.

In this clip from her 2014 testimony, Ruth Pearl, mother of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, sees dehumanization as the first step toward the same violence that took her son. The first step in countering hatred is acknowledging and accepting our common humanity.

In this lecture, Dr. Boris Adjemian speaks about the making of Armenian archival collections of victims' testimonies after the genocide and the evolution of their historiographical uses.

Renee shares the story of what happened when she landed in the United States for the first time - including her confusion over her young relatives' Halloween costumes.

Chair: Lyn Boyd-Judson, Global Humanities and Ethics, USC

Chair: Elaine Gan, Digital Humanities, USC

Piotr Florczyk (USC, Creative Writing)

Chair: Cyrus Shahabi, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Spatial Sciences, USC

Chair: Jason Lustig, History, UCLA 

Chair: Jeremy Mikecz, Digital Humanities and History, USC

Chair: Gabor Toth, Digital Humanities and History, Yale University

Chair: Tara McPherson, Cinematic Arts and Media, USC

Wolf Gruner, USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research