March 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Verna and Peter Dauterive Hall (VPD), Room 203
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A public lecture by Natalie Bernstien (PhD candidate in History, UCLA)
2025-2026 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow

Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research

Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and UCLA Department of History

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During World War II, the northern Moroccan city of Tangier was home to some 2,000 European Jewish refugees fleeing Nazism. Due to its international status, the city was also home to a diverse range of people, including Moroccan Muslims and Jews, the European diplomatic community, and, ultimately, German foreign officers. In this talk, Natalie Bernstien will discuss this period in Tangier’s history to highlight its significance within the larger history of the Second World War and Holocaust studies in the southern Mediterranean.

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Lunch will be served.

Natalie Bernstien is a PhD Candidate in History at UCLA, where she works on Moroccan Jewish history, focusing primarily on the city of Tangier during the Second World War. She previously lived in Meknes, Morocco as part of the Arabic Flagship Program Capstone year and in Casablanca as a Fulbright student researcher. Most recently, her work has been supported by the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS), and the American Academy for Jewish Research (AAJR). Read more about her here.