Two Sides of Survival Nets Best Documentary Prize at Angeles Film Festival
Wed, 09/01/2021 - 5:58pm
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The documentary Two Sides of Survival just landed Winner of Best Documentary Short at the Angeles Film Festival.
Produced by USC Shoah Foundation, Two Sides of Survival brings together stories from the East and West, chronicling how Jews who fled the Nazis in Europe, and Chinese who were threatened by Japanese occupation, improbably found refuge close to one another in the 1930’s and during World War II.
USC Shoah Foundation is saddened to learn of the recent passing of Sol Gringlas, who survived both the Nordhausen and Auschwitz concentration camps. Sol passed away in May of 2020. He was 100.
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Mila Page Turns 100! She and Husband Paul Introduced Thomas Kenneally to the story of Oskar Schindler
Fri, 07/24/2020 - 1:37pm
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We join a worldwide community to celebrate the recent 100th birthday of Ludmila Page, a Holocaust survivor who helped bring the story of Oskar Schindler to light together with her late husband Paul (Poldek Pfefferberg). The two of them and more than 1,200 other Jews survived the Holocaust thanks to Schindler.
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USC Shoah Foundation Mourns the Passing of Filmmaker and Friend Luke Holland
Fri, 06/12/2020 - 11:42am
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USC Shoah Foundation mourns the loss of Luke Holland who passed away this week, a transformative figure in the field of historical documentation and a dear friend of the Institute. “Luke guided us all to face our pasts—to face our fears—as pathway to living a more informed, peaceful life,” said Stephen Smith, Finci-Viterbi Executive Director of USC Shoah Foundation.
USC Shoah Foundation Commends Congress on Passage of Holocaust Education Bill
Thu, 05/14/2020 - 7:46pm
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On January 27, 2020, the bipartisan bill passed in the House with nearly unanimous support. Today, it passed the senate with complete support and is now on its way for the president's signature.
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Passing of Joseph Feingold Demonstrates Urgent Need for “Last Chance Testimony”
Thu, 05/07/2020 - 3:03pm
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In 2017, Mr. Feingold recorded a more than 4 hour testimony with USC Shoah Foundation as part of the Last Chance Testimony Collection, enabling Holocaust survivors to share their stories for USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive—before it is too late—where they will exist in perpetuity.
COVID-19 Presents Extreme Risk to Holocaust Survivor Community and World War II Veterans
Thu, 05/07/2020 - 12:38pm
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The elderly population is among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the victims include a large and growing number of Holocaust survivors and World War II veterans.
Spring Release adds Tutsi, Rohingya, and "Last Chance" Testimonies
Thu, 04/09/2020 - 10:54am
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Pictured: Holocaust survivor Elly Gotz who gave his testimony to the Azrieli Foundation in 2018. His interview is one of 31 new testimonies from the Azrieli Foundation that have been indexed and catalogued in the Visual History Archive. This week’s semi-annual VHA release adds 128 new testimonies to the 55,000-strong collection. All the updated testimonies are available at 163 access sites worldwide.
“People were dying like flies”: A reflection on COVID-19 and epidemics during the Holocaust
Wed, 04/01/2020 - 4:36pm
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Only a day after the University of Southern California announced that it would conduct a three-day test to move all classes online, which soon turned into a permanent arrangement until the end of Spring semester, my colleague and I gave our last in-person introduction to the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive to a USC class. Perhaps serendipitously, one of the topics discussed in this class was physical health.