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Lecture: Nazis used photography to conceal the truth of life in concentration camps during the Holocaust

Familiar photographs from concentration camps during World War II – the barbed-wire fences, the emaciated survivors, the piles of corpses – were mostly taken by allied forces and journalists after…
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Lukas Meissel lectures about photographic practices in Nazi concentration camps

“SS-Photographs from Concentration Camps. Perpetrator Sources and Counter-Narratives” Lukas Meissel (Ph.D. Candidate in Holocaust Studies, University of Haifa) 2018-2019 Margee and…
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Students at Worcester State University inspired by testimony of African American liberator

When Manasseh Konadu, a student at Worcester State University in Massachusetts, came to USC Shoah Foundation’s training for student leaders from across the nation to address…
Monday, February 25, 2019

Who is a Survivor?

This blog post first appeared in Echoes & Reflections. Who is a Survivor? As a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas (MSD) High School in Parkland, Florida, who survived the tragedy on…
Thursday, February 14, 2019

Butterflies Inspire Empathy and Counter Hate in Germany

The snow was falling ever so slightly, and the cold was biting and invigorating at the same time on what was otherwise a typical winter morning in a city not far from Berlin. On the side of a…
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Parkland mass shooting: One year later

“As the shooter was blasting his AR-15 into the long window on the door of our classroom, I was thinking what to say should he enter the room. I was aware I might not have been given the chance, but…
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Grandfather of USC Shoah Foundation employee is a Righteous Among the Nations honoree

By Rennie Svirnovskiy Franca Cassuto’s father had been cheated. The 14-year-old girl had only the capacity to watch as her father’s mistress turned him in to the fascists so she could pocket the…
Friday, February 8, 2019

Recent events show the importance of Armenian Genocide education

My life and my work at USC Shoah Foundation are strongly connected to the joys and the sorrows of the Armenian community. Thus, I was both shocked and heartened by recent separate events that…
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

In memory of Walter P. Loebenberg, founder of the Florida Holocaust Museum

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…
Monday, February 4, 2019