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October 3, 2014

Welcome! Get Started @ The Library

On behalf of everyone at the UC San Diego Library, welcome to campus for the Fall Quarter! To help you get started, below is a list of our top ten …

June 23, 2014

Steampunk Tea at The Library

Steampunk Tea! Join futurists, adventurers, and writers from from the Clarion Science Fiction Workshop at UCSD for a lively event, Sunday, June 29, 3-5:00pm in Geisel. The tea—which is free …

May 29, 2014

Four Students Win Library Research Prize

Congratulations to the 2014 Undergraduate Library Research Prize Winners!  Jessica Gross, Maarouf Saad, Jessica Knapp, Adam Simon (not shown) Co-sponsored by the UC San Diego Library, the UCSD Alumni Association, …

May 7, 2014

Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered

Ruth Klüger was eleven years old when she and her mother were deported from her native Vienna to Theresienstadt, the Nazis’ “model ghetto.” Twelve grueling months later, she was deported …

April 17, 2014

Holocaust Living History Workshop Series Continues

UC San Diego’s Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLHW), co-sponsored by the UC San Diego Library and the Judaic Studies Program, will present two final lectures in its “Journeys, Memories, Echoes” …

April 17, 2014

Porrajmos: The Romanies and the Holocaust

The Holocaust claimed anywhere between 500,000 and 1.5 million Romani lives, a tragedy the Romani people and Sinti refer to as the Porrajmos, or “the Devouring.” Notwithstanding the scope of …