“We have to leave” Germany: Jewish children’s agency and acculturation in Latin America during the Holocaust
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635 Downey Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089
https://dornsife.usc.edu/cagr/2025/02/14/we-have-to-leave-germany/A public lecture by Alexia M. Orengo-Green (PhD candidate in History, University of Southern California)
2024 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellow
Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research
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Approximately 126,000 Jewish refugees escaped Nazi Europe and went to Latin America from 1933 to 1945. Through an analysis of oral history interviews from the Visual History Archive (VHA), Alexia M. Orengo-Green explores how German Jewish child survivors remember their experiences of immigration and acculturation in Latin America during the Holocaust. An analysis of oral history interviews highlights how German Jewish children utilized their agency to navigate the social, cultural, and racial ideologies of their host countries.
Lunch will be served.
Alexia M. Orengo Green is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Van Hunnick History Department at the University of Southern California. Her dissertation investigates the Jewish children who escaped Nazi Germany and went to Latin America during the Holocaust to interrogate how they employed their agency and acculturated within their host countries. She holds a Masters in History and a Graduate Certificate in Jewish Studies from USC, a MA in Public History from New York University, and a BA in History and Archaeology from Dickinson College.
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