Harry Reicher


I have only known Harry Reicher for three months, and yet today I say goodbye to him as an old friend.

I don’t know why, but I wasn’t expecting to meet a devout and practicing Jew the day he first walked into the USC Shoah Foundation office, but Harry’s devotion to his religious life radiated from him the moment he said hello.

Stephen Smith

Margee and Douglas Greenberg Gift to USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research Will Endow First Academic Research Fellowship


Jared McBride, the fellowship’s debut recipient, was chosen by a panel of USC researchers and professors for the originality of his proposal and its potential to advance genocide research.

USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research: Simone Gigliotti - A Mobile Holocaust: Testimony and the Spatial Turn


United States

Doheny Memorial Library Room G 24, Herklotz Room

Please join the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research for a lecture by Simone Gigliotti.
The topic of the lecture will be "A Mobile Holocaust: Testimony and the spatial turn".

A New Methodology


In January 2014, four scholars from the “Holocaust Geographies Collaborative”—an international, interdisciplinary group of researchers evaluated the link between personal testimony, the index of the archive and geography.

Call for Applications: The 2014-15 Center for Advanced Genocide Research Fellow


The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites applications from senior scholars for its 2014-2015 Center Research Fellow. The fellowship provides $30,000 support and will be awarded to an outstanding candidate from any discipline who will advance genocide research through the use of the Visual History Archive (VHA) of the USC Shoah Foundation and other USC resources.