Sterilization and Castration Abuse in Nazi Camps: A Case Study of Hungarian Roma and Jews

July 12, 2023 

An online lecture by Alexandra Szabó (PhD candidate in History, Brandeis University)
2022-2023 Strauss Fellow at the Cedars-Sinai Center for Medicine, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Visiting scholar at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research, Summer 2023

Organized by the Cedars-Sinai Center for Medicine, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Cosponsored by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research

In her dissertation, Alexandra Szabó focuses on Hungarian Jewish and Romani men’s and women’s experiences of sterilization and castration in Nazi camps — their experiences both at the time and in the years since. In her engagement with the latter, she has formulated the concept of “prolonged genocide.” Szabó is using her native language of Hungarian and access to sources in Hungary to open up a new body of source material. In her talk, she will discuss preliminary research findings and how interactions with Cedars-Sinai clinicians enhance her work with survivor testimonies.

Alexandra Szabó is a PhD candidate in History at Brandeis University. She is the 2022-2023 Strauss Fellow at Cedars-Sinai Center for Medicine, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and a Visiting Scholar at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research during Summer 2023. She will return to the Center for a month during the Spring 2024 semester as the Center’s 2023-2024 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow.