Research With Testimonies: Featuring the Center's 2020 Lev Student Research Fellows


Saturday, June 28, 2025 - 09:40 PM PDT

An online event with Lucy Sun (USC undergraduate student, History major) and Rachel Zaretsky (MFA candidate in Art, USC Roski School of Art and Design)
2020 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellows

Organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research

Challenging the Shame Paradigm: Jewish Women’s Narratives of Sexual(ized) Violence During the Holocaust


Saturday, June 28, 2025 - 09:40 PM PDT

An online lecture by Lauren Cantillon (PhD candidate in the Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries at King’s College London, UK)
2020-2021 Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies

Organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Cosponsored by the USC Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies

Speaking About Sexuality: Male Jewish Intimacy and Agency in Oral History Interviews


Saturday, June 28, 2025 - 09:40 PM PDT

An online lecture by Florian Zabransky (PhD candidate at the Weidenfeld Institute–Centre for German-Jewish Studies at University of Sussex, UK)
2020-2021 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow

Organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Cosponsored by the USC Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies

Defiance and Protest: Forgotten Acts of Individual Jewish Resistance in Nazi Germany


Saturday, June 28, 2025 - 09:40 PM PDT

An online lecture by Wolf Gruner (Founding Director, USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research)

Organized by the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and The Base
Cosponsored by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research

My Reluctant Encounter With the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive


I never intended to spend months listening to Holocaust testimonies. 

My name is Chaya Nove, I am a sociolinguist working on a doctoral dissertation about language change in Yiddish vowels. In my research, I consider the Yiddish spoken by Hasidic Jews in New York today (Hasidic Yiddish, or HY) as a living, changing language, with the understanding that this language was once spoken by a group of people in another time and place. 

Chaya Nove