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February 21, 2020

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Kirk Douglas, film legend and 2008 USC Shoah Foundation Ambassador for Humanity, passes away at 103
Thursday, February 6, 2020
USC Shoah Foundation joins the Hollywood community and people worldwide in mourning the loss of Kirk Douglas, who passed away earlier this week at age 103. Douglas was an acting legend and an icon of the Golden Age of moviemaking, but it was the zeal and empathy that he brought not only to his work as an artist but also to so many humanitarian causes that made him a close friend of USC Shoah Foundation.
USC Shoah Foundation Partners with Hold On To Your Music to Create Groundbreaking Resources in Holocaust Education with $10 Million Koret Foundation Grant
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

In Memory of Holocaust survivor Hanna Pankowsky
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Today we mourn the loss of Hanna Pankowsky, a remarkable woman who gave us her testimony and was one of the subjects in a portrait series of Holocaust survivors painted by David Kassan.
A Message of Unity and Action After New York Antisemitic Attacks
Sunday, December 29, 2019
The survivors and witnesses of hate violence offer perspective and insight that can bind our communities together and build respect for all human life.
Our Top Stories of 2019
Monday, December 23, 2019
Check out our year in review of the Institute's work in 2019, including stories about our new podcast "We Share the Same Sky" and our work with Discovery Education.
USC Shoah Foundation partners with Fox Searchlight Pictures to launch JOJO RABBIT Education initiative
Thursday, December 19, 2019
USC Shoah Foundation and Fox Searchlight Pictures today announced a partnership to develop classroom curriculum tied to JOJO RABBIT, Taika Waititi’s heartfelt World War II anti-hate satire.
Holocaust survivor’s family reads family letters from WWII on stage in Germany
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
“The Laskers from Breslau” highlights the terror and agony felt by two Jewish parents as they desperately tried to send their children out of Nazi Germany as war became imminent.
Testimonies from 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China fully indexed and subtitled
Monday, November 18, 2019
The collection of 101 interviews could be the world’s fullest audiovisual documentation of the Nanjing Massacre. The rampage began during the Sino-Japanese War on Dec. 13, 1937, when Japanese troops arrived by horseback, tank and foot and embarked on a campaign of violence and rape that terrorized the city for several weeks.
In memory of Branko Lustig, producer of ‘Schindler’s List’ and a founder of USC Shoah Foundation
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Today we mourn the loss of one of our closest friends, Branko Lustig, a Holocaust survivor and two-time Academy Award winner who produced Schindler’s List and played an indispensable role in the founding of USC Shoah Foundation.
Panel: Women in media who have worked in dangerous conflict zones share stories
Thursday, November 7, 2019
The USC Visions & Voices panel, called “Behind Enemy Lines,” was cosponsored by USC Shoah Foundation and USC Fisher Museum of Art and was followed by a reception and viewing at the museum of the Facing Survival exhibit by artist David Kassan.
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Bodies and the Memory of Emotions in Testimony

January 30, 2020

During my dissertation research on the history of fear in the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933, a Corrie ten Boom fellowship provided the opportunity for me to visit the USC Shoah Foundation to explore the visual testimonies of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive.

By Russell Spinney

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