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September 25, 2018
News
'The Girl and The Picture' is open to general audiences
Inspired by Testimony
Nechama Ariel on Rosh Hashanah
Online Exhibit
Journeys Through the Holocaust
News
'The Girl and The Picture' is open to general audiences
Starting Friday, Sept. 14, The Girl and The Picture, USC Shoah Foundation’s documentary about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, is being shown for one week at the Laemmle Monica Film Center in Santa Monica.
Inspired by Testimony
Nechama Ariel on Rosh Hashanah
While in hiding in Poland, Nechama chose to sneak into the ghetto so that she could celebrate Rosh Hashanah, pray with other Jews, and hear the shofar being blown.
Online Exhibit
Journeys Through the Holocaust
A journey, in the most literal and simplistic sense involves movement from one place to another. This movement could mean physical displacement, as happened to many thousands of people before, during, and after the Holocaust. Journeys can also be metaphoric, emotional, psychological...
Latest News
Thursday, September 20, 2018
USC Shoah Foundation’s Inna Gogina and Svetlana Ushakova authored segments of the IDNA, the first ever comprehensive source of information about national archives around the world.
Monday, September 17, 2018
Racism. Holocaust denial. BDS. Students at USC Shoah Foundation’s second-annual Intercollegiate Diversity Congress Summit delved into some of the touchiest campus topics, and discussed ways to effect positive change.
Friday, September 14, 2018
Starting today, "The Girl and The Picture," USC Shoah Foundation’s documentary about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, is being shown for one week at the Laemmle Monica Film Center in Santa Monica.
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Bawnik survived a Jewish ghetto and four concentration camps, only to nearly die on one of the last days of the war, when British warplanes bombed a German ocean liner that he and thousands of other Jewish prisoners had been forced to board.
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
An ITS group has worked since April of 2017 to expand the discoverability of testimonies for students, researchers and anyone else searching for information about specific genocide events.
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
The integration of the new collection means the Archive now represents nine genocidal events. USC Shoah Foundation last month added 11 Rohingya video interviews -- as well as 77 testimonies from other collections -- to its ever-expanding Archive.
Friday, September 7, 2018
A consortium of more than 40 Hungarian academic institutions and public libraries signs on, bringing the total number of worldwide subscribers to 138.
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Charlotte is among 20 student leaders from 14 university campuses from around the country who are convening at USC Shoah Foundation on Friday for the second-annual Intercollegiate Diversity Congress.
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
A pioneering moment for Holocaust education, the world’s first virtual reality film to take audiences through a concentration camp, launches as immersive experience at four museums in New York, California, Illinois and Florida for limited-engagement exhibit.
Thursday, August 30, 2018
We are saddened at the recent death of Emmanuel Ndashimye, a survivor of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi, whose testimony is in the Institute’s Visual History Archive.
Upcoming Events
American Dreams: Jewish Refugees and Chinese Locals in Post-World War II Shanghai
- September 27, 2018
- Harris Main Room, Harris Residence Hall
Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany
- October 3, 2018
- Social Sciences Building (SOS) 250
The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66
- October 4, 2018
- Location TBD
Corpses of the Holocaust
- November 13, 2018
- Location TBA
Blog: Through Testimony
September 17, 2018
My father was born and raised in Sighet, Romania, just down the road from the Elie Wiesel's simple blue childhood home. When the Nobel laureate's house was spray-painted with antisemitic slurs this summer, it felt like an attack on my own familial history.
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