Now, both approaching 100 years old, Roth and Moran met to share their stories with the USC Shoah Foundation, which maintains the largest audiovisual archive of Holocaust survivor and witness testimonies.

Musicians from the University of Southern California (USC) marching band played a spirited musical flourish as shiny streamers wafted down. It was a fitting welcome to the May 6 ceremony recognizing Mickey Shapiro’s transformative $30 million gift to the USC Shoah Foundation. In honor of the gift, the Foundation’s headquarters was named the Mickey Shapiro Headquarters of the USC Shoah Foundation.

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath to be present in the living room of my grandparents’ home, awaiting a conversation with my great-grandmother, Mary Antekelian. 

The collaboration will be part of the [USC Shoah Foundation's] Contemporary Antisemitism Collection, and seeks to showcase the various ways antisemitism has manifested since the Holocaust.

By opening our eyes to the crimes of the past, [survivors] create a lens for the future; one that binds us, Jews and non-Jews alike, to this subject and to one another. If we ever hope to truly learn from the Holocaust, we must engage with the history as it happened to those who lived it.

Searching for Never Again from the USC Shoah Foundation, explores the past and present of antisemitism and hate, and how together, we can defeat it.