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In 1994 we launched an unprecedented effort to record, preserve, and share the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Over the past 30 years, we have built a world-class institute anchored in their voices. Learn more about our global impact.
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Upcoming Programs and Events

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When the Fragmented becomes the Stitched: Engaging Students through Research
USC Shoah Foundation Event
In a follow up to her inaugural lecture series, Mélanie Péron will discuss how she and her students at the University of Pennsylvania drew upon a wealth of different sources such as diaries and archives to reconstruct the individual stories of Jewish children and their families in occupied France before they were reduced to a typed line on a...
  • March 27, 2025
  • Online Event
03
Apr
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Building Bridges: Jewish and Armenian Legacies After Genocide
USC Shoah Foundation Event
In honor of Armenian Heritage Month, join us for a conversation with grandchildren of Armenian Genocide survivors and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.…
  • April 3, 2025
  • Holocaust Museum Los Angeles , 100 The Grove Dr, Los Angeles , California, 90036, United States
09
Apr
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Forced into Transit: Global Perspectives on Refugees Fleeing Nazi Persecution
USC Shoah Foundation Event
The talk introduces transit  as a concept to analyze spatial and temporal experiences of Jewish or political refugees from Nazi persecution, starting first in 1933 in Germany and later on in Austria, Czechoslovakia, and all over Europe. …
  • April 9, 2025
  • Online Event

Latest News

Call for Applications: Azrieli Teaching Fellowship for Excellence in Testimony-Based Pedagogy, 2025-2026
The Education Division of the USC Shoah Foundation—The Institute for Visual History and Education invites applications for their inaugural Azrieli Teaching Fellowship for Excellence in Testimony-based Pedagogy for the 2025-2026 academic year. Read More
We Remember György Kun
We are saddened to learn of the passing of György Kun, who gave his testimony in October 1999 in Budapest, Hungary. His daughter, Andrea Szonyis, an educator and former colleague at the USC Shoah Foundation, authored a story in the series "Voices from the Archive” about her father. Read More
USC Shoah Foundation Appoints Inaugural Director of Countering Antisemitism Laboratory
LOS ANGELES, CA (Feb. 11, 2025) — The USC Shoah Foundation announced the appointment of Dr. Brian Hughes as the inaugural Director of its Countering Antisemitism Laboratory, marking a significant expansion of the institute's mission to combat hatred through research, education and action. Read More

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Dana Schwartz (left) with Holocaust survivor Helen Chalef in 2004
Holocaust Survivor Dana Schwartz, 89, Recorded Interviews with More Than 125 Survivors
Urgent Campaign Records Eyewitness Accounts of Antisemitic Terror Attacks in Israel: Interviews with October 7 Survivors Stir Haunting Echoes of the Holocaust

Research

Call for Applications: Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Antisemitism Studies, 2025-2026
Call for Applications: Azrieli Research Fellowship for Graduate Students, 2025-2026

Technology

XR Experience “Inside Kristallnacht” Takes Audiences Through Pivotal Moment in Holocaust History
Dimensions in Testimony Education Releases Interview with Nuremberg Prosecutor Ben Ferencz

Education

Call for Applications: Azrieli Teaching Fellowship for Excellence in Testimony-Based Pedagogy, 2025-2026
As Survivors Dwindle, We Must Rethink How to Teach the Holocaust: With antisemitism, intolerance and denialism on the rise, we must remember the victims – and the dangers of nationalism and paranoid conspiracies.
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