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March 20, 2019
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A Portuguese diplomat sacrificed everything to save thousands of Jews during the Holocaust
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USC’s Holocaust and genocide studies collection goes from nonexistent to one of the best in U.S.
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Online Resources to Combat Antisemitism
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A Portuguese diplomat sacrificed everything to save thousands of Jews during the Holocaust
In interviews with USC Shoah Foundation, the sons of Aristides de Sousa Mendes and Jewish survivors rescued by him shared personal stories of his heroism.
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USC’s Holocaust and genocide studies collection goes from nonexistent to one of the best in U.S.
Wolf Gruner, founding director of USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research, began his quest to build a Holocaust library as soon as he arrived at USC a decade ago.
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Online Resources to Combat Antisemitism
Access educational resources, video clips and other tools to be a strong voice in the fight against antisemitism.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Widely known as the “Portuguese Schindler,” Aristides de Sousa Mendes was severely punished by his own government after flouting its neutrality policy with a frantic bid to issue as many visas as possible to desperate refugees fleeing Nazi invasion. In interviews with USC Shoah Foundation, the sons of Sousa Mendes and Jewish survivors rescued by him shared personal stories of his heroism.
Friday, March 15, 2019
Throughout history, we have seen dangerous threats evolve into acts of murder, terror and genocide, and what we are witnessing in Christchurch, New Zealand, is no different.
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Wolf Gruner, the founding director of USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research, began his quest to build a Holocaust library as part of a new Holocaust program as soon as he arrived at USC via Berlin a decade ago.
Monday, March 11, 2019
Sheinberg, who died Thursday at 84, was not only a mentor to USC Shoah Foundation founder Steven Spielberg, he was also a committed supporter of the Institute’s work nearly every step of the way.
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Roughly 1,000 audio-only interviews recorded by students of UCLA history Professor Richard Hovannisian were entrusted to USC Shoah Foundation. This week, Hovannisian and three of his former students gave a talk about how they amassed such a large repository of memory at so crucial a time, “when denialism was huge.”
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
In his 104 years, B. Artin Haig witnessed both the best and the worst humanity had to offer. He saw Babe Ruth play at Yankee Stadium. He photographed President Franklin Roosevelt. And he was one of the few remaining survivors of the Armenian Genocide in North America.
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
The news about a group of teenagers throwing a Nazi salute at a party in Orange County is a startling reminder that knowledge of the Holocaust is fading. Here are four free online classroom-ready activities on IWitness that address the topics of antisemitism, bystanders and hatred.
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
The piece highlights how the interactive biographies will enable future generations to ask questions of and receive immediate answers from pre-recorded images of Holocaust survivors, long after the last of the living witnesses are gone.
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Instead of factories of death, these black-and-white stills convey the idea that soldiers are happy and prisoners are mere criminals serving a sentence. A research fellow with USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research discussed his findings on this topic in a lecture.
Monday, February 25, 2019
The story of Leon Bass, who took part in the liberation of Nazi concentration camps only to later face discrimination in the United States, inspires a group of dormitory RAs at the Massachusetts campus to share their own experiences of feeling excluded.
Upcoming Events
Talat Pasha's Killing Orders and Denial of the Armenian Genocide
- March 22, 2019
- Harris Main Room, Harris Residence Hall
In Search of the Drowned in the Words of the Saved: Testimonial Fragments of the Holocaust
- April 2, 2019
- Social Sciences Building (SOS) 250
Marion Kaplan Gives Annual Shapiro Scholar Lecture: Did Gender Matter during the Holocaust?
- April 11, 2019
- USC Shoah Foundation (view all events at USC)
Afterlives: Memories of the Displaced Persons Camps in Italy
- April 16, 2019
- Social Sciences Building (SOS) 250
Blog: Through Testimony
March 4, 2019
Last week a group of us from USC Shoah Foundation were in Guatemala with our testimony partner, the Foundation for Forensic Anthropology in Guatemala (FAFG). We attended the funeral of a Mayan man whose remains were recently exhumed by FAFG – 36 years after he disappeared during the genocide there.
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