Emil Fish's Full Testimony
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Linguist Isaac Bleaman receives National Science Foundation award to study language of Holocaust survivors

The five-year $470,000 grant will support research that documents the Yiddish language as it was spoken by survivors who were interviewed for the Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation, an organization that was founded by film director Steven Spielberg in 1994.

Friend and Educator Pinchas Gutter Turns 90

Thu, 07/21/2022 - 12:31pm

Our longtime friend Pinchas Gutter turns 90 today! The survivor of six German Nazi concentration camps has shared his remarkable story with USC Shoah Foundation in a variety of formats over the years, including as a Dimensions in Testimony interactive biography that has been featured by media outlets including CBS 60 Minutes and the New York Times. Earlier this year Pinchas sat down with us to reflect on contemporary events and his experiences. 

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Disease, Contagion and Trauma in the 1947 Partition of India

July 28, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - July 28, 2022 @ 1:00 pm

An online lecture by Antara Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India)
lnaugural Strauss Fellow at the Center for Medicine, Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Cedars-Sinai
Visiting scholar at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research, June-July 2022

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Start: July 28, 2022 / 12:00 PM
End: July 28, 2022 / 1:00 PM

Dimensions in Testimony Interview with Max Eisen Added to IWitness

Thu, 07/14/2022 - 4:29pm

Holocaust survivor and USC Shoah Foundation friend Max Eisen passed away earlier this month, leaving a unique legacy forged by harrowing wartime experiences, 20 return trips to Auschwitz-Birkenau as an educator, and the testimony he gave against two SS guards in Germany beginning in 2015.

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Sam Gustman

Chief Technology Officer and Associate Dean of the USC Shoah Foundation and USC Libraries

Sam Gustman has been chief technology officer (CTO) of the Shoah Foundation since 1994. Gustman is also associate dean and CTO at the USC Libraries where he oversees IT for the Libraries and started the USC Digital Repository.

July 11 Commemorates Srebrenica Genocide Day

Mon, 07/11/2022 - 1:08pm

July 11 marks 26 years since the Srebrenica genocide, the biggest in a cluster of massacres that occurred as part of the campaign of ethnic cleansing in eastern parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1992-1995 war in the country.

It’s the day in 1995 that Bosnian Serb forces led by General Ratko Mladic overran the enclave of Srebrenica, the town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina the United Nations had formally designated as a “safe area” in 1993. 

USC Shoah Foundation and the Museum of Jewish Heritage to Host New York Premiere of Strand Releasing’s My Name Is Sara

Film shares true story of a young girl surviving Holocaust while hiding in plain sight in Ukraine

Fri, 07/08/2022 - 6:37am

USC Shoah Foundation and the Museum of Jewish Heritage are joining forces on July 12 to host the official New York City premiere of My Name Is Sara, a feature film based on the true story of a young girl’s survival during the Holocaust while hiding in plain sight in the Ukrainian countryside.

Produced in association with USC Shoah Foundation, the film was an Official Selection at over 50 festivals internationally, taking home five Best Feature Awards. Strand Releasing will bring the movie to New York theatres on July 13, 2022 and nationwide beginning July 22, 2022.

We Mourn Max Eisen

Author and Educator Testified Against Auschwitz Guards

Thu, 07/07/2022 - 1:56pm

USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of our friend Max Eisen, a Holocaust survivor who returned to Auschwitz-Birkenau more than 20 times as an educator and testified at the trials of two SS guards in 2015, more than 70 years after his entire family was killed in Nazi concentration camps.

Max’s memoir, By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz, was the 2019 winner of Canada Reads, a Canadian Broadcasting Company “battle of the books” program, and was shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize in 2017. 

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#LastSeen Project: Searching for Unknown Pictures of Nazi Deportations

August 29, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - August 29, 2022 @ 1:15 pm

An online event featuring #LastSeen Project Manager Alina Bothe

Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research 
Cosponsored by the Consortium of Higher Education Centers for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies

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Start: August 29, 2022 / 12:00 PM
End: August 29, 2022 / 1:15 PM

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