Behind the Music: Challenging “Music as Resistance”

​At the academic symposium, scholars will discuss how music was used as resistance in a number of conflicts around the world. Tina Frühauf will instead focus on the very definition of “resistance” itself.

Behind the Music: Bret Werb and Shoah Songs

Virtually everyone has listened to a popular song with its lyrics changed for comedic or dramatic effect. But a perhaps little-known fact of the Holocaust is that this type of parody was also a common practice in some of the most hellish places on Earth: concentration camps.

USC To Host International Academic Conference and Concert on Music as a Tool of Resistance

USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, in collaboration with the USC Thornton School of Music, will be hosting scholars from around the world for two days of programming on Oct. 10 - 11 to highlight the use of music as a tool to resist oppression and spread awareness.

USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research Presents a Film Screening with Director Walter Manoschek: "If That's So, Then I'm a Murderer!"

Sunday, July 13, 2025 - 12:18 PM PDT

Director Walter Manoschek, Professor of Political Science, University of Vienna, explores the story of Adolf Storms, a young SS officer who was suspected to have participated in the murder of 57 Jewish slave laborers in the small Austrian

Wolf Gruner to Present at Armenian Genocide Conference in Berlin

Wolf Gruner, director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, will present a paper on the effect of the Armenian Genocide on the Third Reich at the "Gender, Memory and Genocide" conference at the Berlin Institute of Technology this week.

Survivors' Voices

By: Edith Umugiraneza

I participated in an event in April called Survivor Voices. We were six panelists from Bosnia, Rwanda, Cambodia, two Holocaust survivors and an Armenian-American priest.

Edith Umugiraneza
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