USC Shoah Foundation- "The Holocaust: An Unfinished History"

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 lecture or attend virtually on Zoom)

Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research and USC Shoah Foundation

In this distinguished lecture, Professor Dan Stone will discuss his recent book in which he addresses several misconceptions that remain prevalent concerning the history of the Holocaust. These include: the fact that the Holocaust concerns “Germans” and “Jews”; the role played by resistance to Nazi rule; and the equation of the Holocaust with the Nazis’ concentration camp system. Instead, Stone stresses the continent-wide focus of the Holocaust, both where the victims are concerned and with respect to the vast scale of collaboration of all sorts, from state-led, as in Romania, to individual acts of theft and venality, across Europe; and the fact that the murder of the Jews had very little to do with concentration camps until the final stages of the war. In tackling these topics, Stone will consider the significance of Nazi ideology and how it should be conceived; the different roles played by non-German actors; and the fact that the Holocaust did not simply “end” in 1945. Indeed, the fact that the history of the Holocaust is unfinished is clearer today than ever.

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