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USC Shoah Foundation Announces New Board of Councilors Leadership Appointments
USC Shoah Foundation—The Institute for Visual History and Education (USC Shoah Foundation) announced today the appointment of Lee Liberman as Chair of its Board of Councilors and Joel Citron as Vice…
Thursday, June 27, 2019
The Institute hosts winners of Chapman University’s 20th Annual Holocaust Art and Writing Contest
The USC Shoah Foundation hosted winners of the 20th Annual Holocaust Art and Writing Contest on Monday, June 24.
Participants were asked to create artistic or written responses to Holocaust…
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Ayşenur Korkmaz Awarded 2019-2020 Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies
Ayşenur Korkmaz, a PhD candidate in European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has been awarded the 2019-2020 Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies at the USC Shoah…
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
2019-2020 Center Junior Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Awarded to Mehmet Polatel
Mehmet Polatel, PhD and 2018-2019 Postdoctoral Fellow in Armenian Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has been awarded the 2019-2020 Center Junior Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at…
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Holocaust Museum Houston opens permanent display of Dimensions in Testimony
Holocaust Museum Houston this weekend will become the fourth museum in the world to permanently display USC Shoah Foundation’s Dimensions in Testimony, which enables viewers to verbally ask questions…
Friday, June 21, 2019
Donor enables indexing of Lithuanian testimonies, unlocking history of one of the hardest-hit countries in the Holocaust
When it comes to implementing Nazi Germany’s Final Solution, few places were more successful than Nazi-occupied Lithuania. More than 90 percent of the country’s wartime Jewish population of 250,000…
Friday, June 14, 2019
Architecture and design of USC Shoah Foundation headquarters bring spotlight to Institute’s work
USC Shoah Foundation’s state-of-the-art new global headquarters on the fourth floor of Leavey Library is the focus of an extensive piece in this month’s edition of Interior Design magazine.
Noting…
Friday, June 7, 2019
Liberator testimonies: 75 years after D-Day
In the predawn hours of June 6, 1944 – 75 years ago this week – an armada of Allied ships sailed across the English Channel and began unloading thousands of troops into shallow waters off the shores…
Tuesday, June 4, 2019