Current Research

#LastSeen – Pictures of Nazi Deportations

The Center searches for unknown photographs of Nazi mass deportations.

Photos of Nazi mass deportations have never before been brought together, made available as a collection, and analyzed collectively in any systematic way. Nor has there been a concerted effort to search for more photos. The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research is part of a German government funded multi-institutional Holocaust research project, launched in November 2021, which aims to gather, analyze, and digitally publish pictures of Nazi mass deportations of Jews, Romani people and people with disabilities from the German Reich between 1938 and 1945. Knowing these pictures tell many stories – of the deportees, the perpetrators, and the spectators – this initiative invites the public’s participation in helping us to discover and analyze previously unknown photographs that survive in museums, archives, private attics, basements, or dusty photo albums.