Historian Julia Werner discovered this set of photos in the Jewish Museum in Rendsburg, Germany, and they constitute one of the only visual records we have of the construction of an open-air ghetto. Taken on June 16, 1940, by German soldier Wilhelm Hansen, the 83 images (a selection of which can be seen below) track the forced movement of the Jewish population of Kutno, Poland, from their homes to the grounds of an abandoned sugar factory, where they were ordered to set up camp.
Center Fellow Alexander Korb Discusses Importance of Holocaust Research in Facebook Live Conversation
Korb's research will investigate how local authorities in southern and eastern Europe, particularly Croatia, Serbia and Greece, collaborated with the Nazis and carried out their own acts of mass violence outside the epicenter of Nazi Germany.
Omer Bartov to Give Shapiro Scholar Annual Lecture May 8 at USC
The lecture will discuss how the East Galician town of Buczacz was transformed from a site of coexistence, where Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews had lived side-by-side for centuries, into a site of genocide.
Center for Advanced Genocide Research Awards Inaugural Breslauer, Rutman and Anderson Fellowship to Diane Marie Amann
Amann will research the women who participated in the Nuremberg Trials and other major criminal trials in the aftermath of World War II.
Summer 2016 Research Fellows Share Findings One Year Later
Four of USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s summer 2016 research fellows returned to the Institute on Tuesday, April 4, to share the outcomes of their fellowships and the impact of testimony on their work.
All the fellows are studying or teaching at USC and spent at least several weeks in residence at the Center last summer to conduct research in the Visual History Archive.
Collaborators: Exploring Participation in the Holocaust by Non-Germans in Eastern Europe
A public lecture by Alexander Korb (University of Leicester)
2016-2017 Center Research Fellow
Katja Schatte Lecture (Summary)
Katja Schatte (University of Washington)
"Between Scholarship and Community Engagement: Exploring Pre- and Post-Reunification Jewish Life in East Berlin"
Summer Fellowship Applications Due March 31
USC undergraduates, graduate students and faculty as well as faculty from other universities are encouraged to apply.