Sterilization and Castration Abuse: Coping with Holocaust Memories - Alexandra Szabó

The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research shares this public lecture by Alexandra Szabó (PhD candidate in History, Brandeis University), the Center's 2023-2024 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow. This lecture was presented at the University of Southern California and on Zoom on April 2, 2024.
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In her doctoral research, Alexandra M. Szabó (PhD candidate in History, Brandeis University) studies the experiences of Hungarian Jews and Romani peoples who endured sterilization and castration experiments in National Socialist death and concentration camps. She examines the repercussions and long-term effects of the forced procedures on the victims' lives. In this lecture, she will discuss nonverbal expressions in Holocaust survivor testimonies and how these cues point to the silences and silencing surrounding this history and to the tangible effects of experiencing a "prolonged genocide."
Testimony clips are courtesy of the USC Shoah Foundation. Learn more about the USC Shoah Foundation here: sfi.usc.edu/