Alexia Orengo Green

Doktor Schwester doing cool things!

Thank you to @hefnu.bsky.social and @clarkuniversity.bsky.social Strassler Center for the opportunity to speak in the Inaugural Emerging Scholars Lessons & Legacies Conference. It was a great experience sharing my work and seeing the new avenues of research within Holocaust Studies!

Honored to be part of this year's Claims Conference's Saul Kagan Fellowship cohort!

Two Siblings, One Journey to Uruguay - Alexia M. Orengo-Green - Center for Advanced Genocide Research Brazil has had a complicated political past. When you learn about the crimes of the military dictatorship (1964-1986), it’s striking how recently it ended. In my case, five years before I was born. My...

Check out my blog post “Two Siblings, One Journey to Uruguay”! I wrote about the different perspectives of migration from two siblings. The blog post is an insight from my research as a 2024 Lev Student Research Fellow at @cagr-usc.bsky.social

dornsife.usc.edu/cagr/2025/06...

For some reason I was just thinking about #lastseen an incredible collection of photographs of Jews being deported from Nazi Germany, led by a team of scholars incl my colleague Wolf Gruner. Soon they will add photos of NS euthanasia deportations.
www.lastseen.org/en/ueber-den...
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The annual workshop of the Claims Conference #SaulKagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies brought early-career scholars together to discuss their projects. It also allowed them to connect with former Fellows, including those currently working at the @ushmm.bsky.social. #HolocaustEducation

Selbstzeugnisse revisited - Selbstzeugnisse revisited

The platform that @selbstzeugnisse.bsky.social has created speaks on the use, limitations, and importance of incorporating testimonies in narratives of persecution.

Link to website:
selbstzeugnisse-revisited.de

Thank you to @selbstzeugnisse.bsky.social for inviting me to participate on the workshop "Narrating the Past" yesterday! In the workshop I spoke about how the interview process of survivors can obscure or highlight the experiences of Jewish child survivors and Latin America as a region of refuge.

It was incredible hearing you speak so eloquently about the importance of including a gendered lens within our research!

So proud of you! 🎊💛

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on “Puerto Rico: A National History” - Public Books “Part of what the book is trying to do is to challenge this notion of Puerto Rican docility.”

🚨New Writing Latinos Episode!🚨 One of my faves. We talk with @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social about his book, Puerto Rico: A National History, plus his collaboration with Bad Bunny!
www.publicbooks.org/jorell-melen...

Thank you to the @claims-conference.bsky.social for a wonderful workshop and to the @ushmm.bsky.social for hosting us. It's an honor to form part of such a collaborative group of scholars. As a new Saul Kagan fellow, I look forward to presenting my research in next year's workshop.

Puerto Rican veterans facing delayed care due to federal layoffs Puerto Rican veterans, who have served in the U.S. armed forces for more than a century, continue to receive unequal treatment amid cuts

Puerto Rican service to the U.S. armed forces dates back to the Spanish-American War, after which Puerto Rico & other then-Spanish colonies were ceded to the United States in 1898. They have served in every war the U.S. military has been involved in since then.
prismreports.org/2025/05/15/p...

Yass!! Soo proud of you Grace!! 🎊💃🏻

COCO!!!!!

Thank youuu!

Certificate for the General Education Graduate Assistant Award given to Alexia Orengo Green.

This week I received the General Education Graduate Assistant Award from @usc.edu Provost Office and @dornsife.usc.edu. Thank you so much for this honor! Being a Teaching Assistant (TA) and teaching undergraduate students has been one of my favorite experiences during my doctoral studies.

Call for Applications: 2025 Charles E. Scheidt Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship - Center for Advanced Genocide Research USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research

The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research is extending the deadline for its summer research fellowship for undergraduate students from any university in the world and any academic discipline. Please share widely. New deadline is May 15, 2025. dornsife.usc.edu/cagr/2025/02...

Una muy buena e importante lectura!!!

Join us in person or online next Wed April 16th for a lecture by research fellow Lauren Ashley Bradford on how women actively engaged in public displays of racial terror and transformed everyday spaces into sites of racial persecution in Nazi Germany and Jim Crow America.

I wish I could have been there to see it!!

The One Size setting spray is really good!!

I mentioned that I needed a new hobby and now I'm taking care of plants in two different apartments, I guess I'm a plant step-mother now 🌿

Need to give them a raise for all of their hard work!

Thank you so much Karl!

Please tell me you did a @nhlcanucks.bsky.social reference somewhere in the essay

Time to start memorizing the original Hunger Games trilogy

Felicidades Anna!! 🎉

YouTube video by USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research Jewish Children’s Agency & Acculturation in Latin America During the Holocaust – Alexia Orengo-Green

My lecture "'We have to leave' Germany: Jewish Children's Agency & Acculturation in Latin America during the Holocaust" is now published on the YouTube channel for USC's Center for Advanced Genocide Research (CAGR).

Go watch it!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzzi...

Ancestral remains should no longer be displayed in UK museums, say MPs Remains brought to Britain as part of colonialism, such as Egyptian mummies, should be repatriated, a report says

Ancestral remains should no longer be displayed in UK museums, say MPs

Remains brought to Britain as part of colonialism, such as Egyptian mummies, should be repatriated, a report says www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...