“We have to leave” Germany:
Jewish children’s agency and acculturation
in Latin America during the Holocaust

March 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Verna and Peter Dauterive Hall (VPD), Room 203
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A public lecture by Alexia M. Orengo-Green (PhD candidate in History, University of Southern California)
2024 Lev Student Research Fellow

Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research

Approximately 126,000 Jewish refugees escaped Nazi Europe and went to Latin America from 1933 to 1945. Through an analysis of oral history interviews from the Visual History Archive (VHA), Alexia M. Orengo-Green explores how German Jewish child survivors remember their experiences of immigration and acculturation in Latin America during the Holocaust. An analysis of oral history interviews highlights how German Jewish children utilized their agency to navigate the social, cultural, and racial ideologies of their host countries.

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Lunch will be served.

Alexia M. Orengo Green is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Van Hunnick History Department at the University of Southern California. Her dissertation investigates the Jewish children who escaped Nazi Germany and went to Latin America during the Holocaust to interrogate how they employed their agency and acculturated within their host countries. She holds a Masters in History and a Graduate Certificate in Jewish Studies from USC, a MA in Public History from New York University, and a BA in History and Archaeology from Dickinson College.

Lecture image: Enrique Furhman with his brother Siegbert, his aunt, and mother on the ship Campana in October 1938.

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