Podcasts
The “Standing Up to the Assault on Democracy” podcast series is moderated by four international scholars and experts: Andrea Pető, Central European University; Tali Nates, Executive Director and Founder of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre; Bjorn Krondorfer, Director of the Martin-Springer Institute and Endowed Professor of Religious Studies at Northern Arizona University; and Steven Carr, Professor of Communication and Director of the Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Purdue University in Fort Wayne.
This episode, recorded on October 23, 2023, features father Patrick Desbois,
a French Catholic priest and the former head of the commission for relations with Judaism of the French Bishops Conference. Father Desbois is the Founder and President of the Yahad In Unum, an organization dedicated to collecting testimonies of eye-witnesses and to identify and document sites of mass murder of Jews, Roma and other victims in Nazi controlled Eastern Europe.
Ongoing Initiatives
The #LastSeen Project focuses on searching for unknown pictures of Nazi deportations from the German Reich between 1938 and 1945. These photographs show the final moments in which deportees were forcibly removed from German society. 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. The project is a cooperation of the Arolsen Archives, the City Archives of Munich, the Center for the Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University Berlin, the House of the Wannsee Conference memorial site, and the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research.