Eva Schloss, who survived the Holocaust and is the stepsister of Anne Frank, will share her story with the USC community Monday morning.
Schloss will promote her vision of tolerance and education for this year's President's Leadership Dialogue.
"I have no doubt that as she recounts her journey from childhood to Auschwitz to her ongoing quest for global peace, we will find ourselves celebrating her life as we re-examine our own," USC President Harris Pastides said in a statement.
Schloss and Frank knew each other as children before World War II, and Schloss worked with her stepfather, Otto Frank, to share the iconic story. But in addition to her connection to the famous diarist, her own story offers intense details about life in Nazi camps.
Schloss has a drive to never let the world forget the atrocities that left more than six million Jewish people dead, which inspires her to keep sharing her story and vision.
"I get letters from people and they say very often they don't know half of what I'm talking about, they've never heard about it," she said. "Yes, they knew about camps, they knew about prejudice, but they've never really heard how it was day to day. The real effects. It's very important to know the evil that has been happening."
She was connected to USC by the college of education, which works closely with the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam on Holocaust education.
The event is free but requires a ticket. It will start at 10 a.m. at the Koger Center for the Arts.