05.04.2024

Christina Wirth as the first Robert J. Katz Research Fellow of the USC Shoah Foundation for Anti-Semitism Studies in Los Angeles

In April, IEG researcher Christina Wirth began her Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship at the USC Shoah Foundation for Anti-Semitism Studies in Los Angeles. On site, she will examine the experiences of Jewish survivors with antisemitism in the first years after the Holocaust and will also give a lecture on this topic: On 18 April 2024 at 22:00 German time (13:00 local time/ET) she will speak about "Antisemitism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust". The access data for the digital event will be announced, see link below.

At the Institute, Wirth will examine what the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive (VHA) testimonies and related institutional records reveal about how thousands of Jews were threatened by antisemitic pogroms, hostile governments, and the antisemitic tendencies of some of the administrators of Displaced Persons (DPs) camps in the aftermath of World War Two. By doing so, Wirth will offer valuable insights into the continuity of antisemitism beyond the predominant focus on its relationship to the Holocaust, and by using oral history testimonies will demonstrate how neither Jewish life nor antisemitism vanished after 1945.