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February 16, 2019
Impact in Profile
Grandfather of USC Shoah Foundation employee is a Righteous Among the Nations honoree
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Parkland mass shooting: One year later
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Online Resources to Combat Antisemitism
Impact in Profile
Grandfather of USC Shoah Foundation employee is a Righteous Among the Nations honoree
Alberto Innocenti secretly hid Jewish people -- including members of his wife’s family -- in his apartment in Florence, Italy during World War II.
News
Parkland mass shooting: One year later
We commemorate the students and teachers who were killed on Feb. 14, 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and we gratefully acknowledge the class of Ivy Schamis, the recipient of USC Shoah Foundation’s inaugural Stronger Than Hate Educator Award.
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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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Friday, February 15, 2019
In addition to being a budding museum expert, Marissa Wojcik understands the value of the Institute’s work firsthand: Her 83-year-old grandmother, Irene Wojcik, is a Holocaust survivor.
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
We commemorate the students and teachers who were killed on Feb. 14, 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and we gratefully acknowledge the class of Ivy Schamis, the recipient of USC Shoah Foundation’s inaugural Stronger Than Hate Educator Award.
Friday, February 8, 2019
Alberto Innocenti, grandfather of Francesca Innocenti, secretly hid Jewish people -- including members of his wife’s family -- in his apartment during World War II. For this and other acts of heroism the Catholic Italian was recognized posthumously by Yad Vashem.
Monday, February 4, 2019
USC Shoah Foundation is saddened by the recent loss of Walter P. Loebenberg, a friend of the Institute and a Holocaust survivor who, after finding refuge in the United States, went on to open the Florida Holocaust Museum, one of the largest Holocaust museums in the nation. He was 94.
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Born June 21, 1923, in Olcsva, Hungary, Weiss and her family were sent to the Mátészalka ghetto. She was then deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp before being liberated by Soviet armed forces.
Monday, January 28, 2019
In her research of testimonies, USC student Virginia Bullington observed that women in the context of both the Armenian and Tutsi Rwanda genocides are often described as “bearers of culture, maternity and nationalism,” while in the Guatemalan context, “indigenous women were not essentialized -- they were erased.”
Friday, January 25, 2019
USC Shoah Foundation joined a Friday ceremony at a classroom in Cottbus, Germany that contributed 100 butterflies to the Butterfly Project, an international effort by schoolchildren to paint 1.5 million ceramic butterflies – one for every child murdered in the Holocaust.
Friday, January 25, 2019
Professor Marion Kaplan, world-renowned scholar of German-Jewish history, will serve as the 2018-2019 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research after being awarded its most esteemed fellowship. Professor Kaplan will deliver a public lecture and spend one week in residence at the Center this Spring.
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Dimensions in Testimony highlights “Speaking Memories,” an exhibit by the organization Jewish Culture in Sweden featuring the voices and stories of Holocaust survivors. The Swedish History Museum also launched access to the 55,000 testimonies in the Institute’s Visual History Archive.
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
“Who Will Write Our History” tells how ghetto inhabitant Emanuel Ringelblum, a historian, spearheaded an effort to collect what became one of the most important caches of eyewitness accounts to survive World War II. USC Shoah Foundation is a screening-event partner.
Upcoming Events
Talat Pasha's Killing Orders and Denial of the Armenian Genocide
- March 22, 2019
- TBD
In Search of the Drowned in the Words of the Saved: Testimonial Fragments of the Holocaust
- April 2, 2019
- Social Sciences Building (SOS) 250
Afterlives: Memories of the Displaced Persons Camps in Italy
- April 16, 2019
- Social Sciences Building (SOS) 250
Missing Links: Social Bonds and Barriers amongst Italian Jewish Deportees
- April 23, 2019
- Doheny Memorial Library 241
Blog: Through Testimony
February 14, 2019
As a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, who survived the tragedy on Feb. 14, 2018, I have spent the past year grappling with this question.
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