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80 years later, a Holocaust survivor meets an American soldier who helped free him

Listen to their reunion on NPR's All Things Considered

Melinda Goldrich Named Chair of the USC Shoah Foundation Board of Councilors

Joel Citron, Chair of the USC Shoah Foundation – Institute for Visual History and Education Board of Councilors, concluded his distinguished tenure on June 30.

I listened to my great-grandmother’s genocide testimony; now, I carry her voice

Read our colleague Sedda Antekelian's piece in the Armenian Weekly

Mickey Shapiro, longtime Holocaust remembrance leader, bolsters USC Shoah Foundation’s efforts with $30 million gift

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Clara Dijkstra Awarded 2023-2024 USC Shoah Foundation Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies

Clara Dijkstra, a PhD candidate in History at the University of Cambridge, Christ’s College, has been awarded the 2023-2024 USC Shoah Foundation Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies. She will be in residence at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research in September 2023 to conduct research on the experiences of Jews and Roma (Tsiganes) in detention and internment camps in France during the Second World War. Read More

Alexandra Szabó Awarded 2023-2024 Greenberg Research Fellowship

Alexandra Szabó, a PhD candidate in History at Brandeis University, has been awarded the 2023-2024 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellowship at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research. She will be residence for a month during the Spring 2024 semester to conduct research for her dissertation, in which she investigates Hungarian Romani and Jewish women’s experiences of fertility abuses (failed pregnancies, miscarriages, sterilizations, postwar infertility) in the shadow of Nazi persecution. Read More

NEH Grant to Fund Transcription, Translation of Guatemalan Genocide Survivor Testimonies

A longtime scholar affiliate of the USC Shoah Foundation has received a $50,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to transcribe and translate the Maya-Kaqchikel and Spanish-language testimonies of survivors of the Guatemalan genocide. Read More

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