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Upcoming Events

28
Mar
‘I did not want to die without having kissed a woman’: Queer Desire in the Holocaust
USC Shoah Foundation Event
Dr. Anna Hájková, a third-generation descendant of Holocaust survivors and pioneer of queer Holocaust history, will discuss why including queer narratives is crucial to developing a deeper understanding of Nazi persecution and societal resistance.…
  • March 28, 2024
  • Online Event
08
Apr
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History
USC Shoah Foundation Event
The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research and USC Shoah Foundation present the Annual Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar Lecture by Dan Stone (Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London), 2023-2024 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence. Join us in person for this...
  • April 8, 2024
  • Doheny Memorial Library, Room 240, 3550 Trousdale Pkwy., Los Angeles, California, 90089, United States
11
Apr
Soviet Antisemitism
USC Shoah Foundation Event
Join us on April 11 as Tabarovsky presents her research on how Soviet anti-Zionist disinformation campaigns and propaganda are being reproduced by today’s young American progressives and how understanding the history can help us rethink strategies to counter contemporary antisemitism and anti-Zionism.…
  • April 11, 2024
  • Online Event

Latest News

In October 1942, when deportations from the Warsaw ghetto paused, more than 20 youth groups and underground units coalesced into a united front. Vladka Meed channeled her despair at losing her family into fighting the Nazis. Read More
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 10:40am
The USC Shoah Foundation has partnered with the National Library of Israel to provide Israelis with the first countrywide access to the Institute's entire Visual History Archive, including testimonies from more than 52,000 Holocaust survivors and hundreds of survivors of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks. Read More
Monday, March 4, 2024 - 10:06am
The Division of Academic Programs and the Division of Education at the USC Shoah Foundation invite applications for their inaugural Azrieli Teaching Fellowship for Excellence in Testimony-based Pedagogy for the 2024-2025 academic year. Read More
Monday, February 5, 2024 - 2:03pm
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