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/ Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Charlotte McKern, who survived the Holocaust by taking refuge in Shanghai, shares the story of how she met her husband, Robert Grosslight, a physician who’d been released from the Dachau concentration camp in Germany to migrate to Shanghai.
Charlotte McKern, Shanghai, china, husband, birthday, 100 years old / Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Holocaust survivor Minna Aspler -- who spent time in the Warsaw Ghetto -- recalls the personality of Emanuel Ringelblum, who had been her history teacher. Ringelblum went on to lead a clandestine effort with other Warsaw Ghetto inhabitants to amass an archive that would eventually shine a light on the atrocities that occurred there. Aspler's testimony, recorded by McGill University in Montreal in 1995, is stored in USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive.
Minna Aspler, warsaw ghetto, Emanuel Ringelblum / Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Dorothy Zoltek, a Warsaw Ghetto and Holocaust survivor, said she knew Emanuel Ringelblum's family well. She discusses their relationship in this testimony, recorded in 1985 by the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre in Toronto. The testimony is stored in USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive.  
Dorothy Zoltek, Emanuel Ringelblum, warsaw ghetto / Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Married couple Rose and Max Schindler, both Holocaust survivors, talk about the importance of experiencing cultures in different parts of the world. 
rose schindler, Max Schindler / Friday, January 25, 2019
Magda Weiss recalls the day her Hungarian family was taken away to a Jewish ghetto.
Magda Weiss / Thursday, January 31, 2019
In this lecture, 2018 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellow Virginia Bullington will reflect on research she conducted last summer at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research analyzing how testimonies from the Armenian, Guatemalan and Rwandan genocides regarding sexual violence are constructed by interviewees, and how these narratives influence and are influenced by contemporary concepts of gender in those societies post-conflict.
cagr, lecture, discussion, presentation / Thursday, January 31, 2019
Holocaust survivor Blake Schiff discusses the direct involvement he and his sisters had as “chroniclers” who helped Emanuel Ringelblum document the atrocities in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Blake Schiff, Ringelblum Archive, warsaw ghetto, Emanuel Ringelblum / Tuesday, February 5, 2019
In this lecture, Lukas Meissel (PhD candidate, Haifa University, and 2018-2019 Greenberg Research Fellow) presents the preliminary findings of his dissertation research about photographic practices in concentration camps, specifically photos taken by SS men, to argue that the SS photographs were used to create a specific visual narrative of the concentration camps that excludes significant aspects of the camps’ reality.
presentation, discussion, lecture, cagr, fellow / Friday, February 22, 2019
Armenian Genocide survivor B. Artin Haig -- who also went by Artin Kojababian -- discusses his career as a photographer and what it was like to meet President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
T. Armin Haig, Armenian Genocide, FDR / Thursday, March 7, 2019
Armenian Genocide survivor Robert Gajar was on a death march down a mountain trail when he was left behind because his belongings kept sliding off his donkey. On the way down he witnessed something horrific.
Richard Hovannisian, Armenian Genocide, oral history, ucla / Thursday, March 7, 2019
cagr / Wednesday, October 2, 2019
This clip reel features several Holocaust survivors talking about the antisemitism they experienced in relation to the sports they played during the Nazi era in Germany.
/ Wednesday, October 2, 2019
An introduction to the mission and the work of the Center for Advanced Genocide Research at USC Shoah Foundation.
cagr / Tuesday, October 15, 2019
In this lecture, 2019 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellow Anna Lee discusses the commonalities she discovered in narratives that span decades and continents, as survivors talk about the trauma inflicted on them and the intrusion and violation of safe, protected spaces. She examines the diverse forms of activism described by these survivors and the ways they have employed activism to come to terms with and heal from their traumatic experiences.
cagr, discussion, presentation, lecture / Friday, November 15, 2019