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Latest News

Olympic Race Walker Shaul Ladany Survived Bergen-Belsen and the Munich Massacre
Shaul Ladany, an 88-year-old world-record holding speed-walker, has defied death multiple times. As a small child, he survived the German occupation of Budapest and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Then, representing Israel in the 1972 Munich Olympics, he narrowly escaped the massacre that took the lives of 11 Israeli athletes. Read More
Monday, March 25, 2024 - 11:20am
She Smuggled Love, Hope, and Dynamite Over the Ghetto Walls
In October 1942, when deportations from the Warsaw ghetto paused, more than 20 youth groups and underground units coalesced into a united front. Vladka Meed channeled her despair at losing her family into fighting the Nazis. Read More
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 10:40am
USC Shoah Foundation Partners with National Library of Israel
The USC Shoah Foundation has partnered with the National Library of Israel to provide Israelis with the first countrywide access to the Institute's entire Visual History Archive, including testimonies from more than 52,000 Holocaust survivors and hundreds of survivors of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks. Read More
Monday, March 4, 2024 - 10:06am

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Education

New Latin America Partnership Launches IWitness Page Featuring Spanish-Language Holocaust Testimonies
On the 30th Anniversary, New York Panel to Examine Impacts and Legacy of Schindler’s List

Research

Professor Dan Stone Named the 2023-2024 Shapiro Scholar in Residence
Call for Applications: USC Shoah Foundation Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Antisemitism Studies

Collections

Tablet Studios and The USC Shoah Foundation Join Forces to Launch Multimedia Collection from the October 7 Terrorist Attacks in Israel
Urgent Campaign Records Eyewitness Accounts of Antisemitic Terror Attacks in Israel: Interviews with October 7 Survivors Stir Haunting Echoes of the Holocaust

Voices from the Archive

One Youth Group, An Army, and Two Uprisings—The Resistance of Joseph Greenblatt: On the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, we remember a hero
Nearly 80 Years After The Holocaust, A Survivor Tells His Story

Technology

Dimensions in Testimony Education Releases Interview with Nuremberg Prosecutor Ben Ferencz
Past, Present and Future: Redesigned Visual History Archive to Expand Global Access to Holocaust and Genocide Testimonies

We Remember

Remembering Kia Hays
Remembering those we lost in 2023
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