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Upcoming Events

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Sep
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'Entangled History': Jewish and Roma Families in French Internment Camps
USC Shoah Foundation Event
A public lecture by Clara Dijkstra (PhD candidate in History, University of Cambridge, Christ’s College) 2023-2024 USC Shoah Foundation Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies (Join us in person for this lecture or attend virtually on Zoom)…
  • September 28, 2023
  • Taper Hall (THH), Room 309K , 3501 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, California, 90089, United States
11
Oct
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On the History of Antisemitism: Antisemitism Lecture Series
USC Shoah Foundation Event
In this lecture, Dr. Robert J. Williams, Mark Weitzman, and Dr. James Wald will present on their recently-published edited volume, the Routledge History of Antisemitism.…
  • October 11, 2023
  • USC Shoah Foundation Headquarters, 650 W. McCarthy Way, Los Angeles, California, 90089, United States

Latest News

USC Special Panel Discusses Challenges to Holocaust Memory Amidst Rising Antisemitism
More than 300 people turned out Wednesday for a public convening at which a high-level panel discussed threats to Holocaust memory caused by growing antisemitism and revisionist campaigns that deny and distort details of the Shoah. Read More
Friday, September 8, 2023 - 10:15am
USC Shoah Foundation Launches Lecture Series on Understanding and Responding to Antisemitism
With anti-Jewish violence and rhetoric on the rise around the world, the USC Shoah Foundation this fall launches a new Antisemitism Lecture Series where leading scholars will guide audiences through the latest research on this persistent and shapeshifting bigotry. Read More
Tuesday, August 29, 2023 - 3:45pm
Nimrod “Zigi” Ariav, 96, Took Up Arms Against the Nazis
The USC Shoah Foundation mourns the August 3, 2023 passing of Nimrod “Zigi” Ariav, a Holocaust survivor who fought in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and Israel’s War of Independence before becoming a leader in the Israeli aeronautics industry. He was a longtime supporter of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. He was 96.  Read More
Thursday, August 17, 2023 - 3:35pm

More News

Education

Ghetto Fighters’ Museum, USC Shoah Foundation Bring Lessons of Courageous Danish Rescue Operation to Classrooms
New Partnership to Integrate USC Shoah Foundation Testimonies into Latin American Curriculum
USC Shoah Foundation Launches Armenian Genocide Education—Keep the Promise Teacher Fellowship Program

Research

USC Shoah Foundation Launches Lecture Series on Understanding and Responding to Antisemitism
Call for Applications: USC Shoah Foundation Non-residential Scholar Program
Christina Wirth Awarded 2023-2024 Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Antisemitism Studies

Community Connections

Partnership Brings Survivor Voices to Hearts and Homes: This Yom HaShoah, USC Shoah Foundation and Zikaron BaSalon are expanding a grassroots revolution that is changing how the Holocaust is commemorated.
Dancers Give Expression to the Emotions of Testimony
A New Generation Embraces Music the Nazis Tried to Stifle

Collections

Boredom and Excitement at Sea: Jewish Refugees' Experiences on Shanghai-bound Ships
Dimensions in Testimony Education Releases Interview with Nuremburg Prosecutor Ben Ferencz
Nearly 80 Years After The Holocaust, A Survivor Tells His Story

Voices from the Archive

One Youth Group, An Army, and Two Uprisings—The Resistance of Joseph Greenblatt: On the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, we remember a hero
Theary Seng: A Little Girl in a Cambodian Prison Finds a Cruel Calling for Justice From The Killing Fields of Cambodia to a Life of Activism
Nearly 80 Years After The Holocaust, A Survivor Tells His Story

Technology

Past, Present and Future: Redesigned Visual History Archive to Expand Global Access to Holocaust and Genocide Testimonies
Starling Lab and Hala Systems file Cryptographic Submission of Evidence of War Crimes in Ukraine to the International Criminal Court
The Starling Lab for Data Integrity Announces Inaugural Starling Journalism Fellows

We Remember

We Remember Dr. Richard Hovannisian, 90, an Esteemed Historian and Chronicler of the Armenian Genocide
We Remember Damas Gisimba, 61, Savior of More than 400 Rwandans During Genocide
Defying Horrors of Teenage Years in Auschwitz, Joshua Kaufman, 95, Embraced Life

Family Stories

Child survivor Rena Quint’s 1998 testimony is an amalgam of her own memories, and details she put together after years of research.
Rena Quint, Child Survivor, Found Herself In Her Family History
Armenian Scholar Finds Lost Songs in USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive
In the Throes of the Armenian Genocide, His Mother Protected Him and Saved More Than a Hundred Others: Sam Kadorian

Watch and Share

Edith Reifer on Tisha B'Av
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Swedish Diplomat Per Anger reflects on working as a rescuer alongside Raoul Wallenberg
Language: English
A Moment for Hope
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Together We Are Stronger Than Hate

Stronger Than Hate, an initiative that draws on the power of eyewitness testimony to help students and the general public recognize and counter antisemitism, racism, xenophobia and other forms of hatred.

The Willesden Project

Inspired by the power of story to transform lives, this groundbreaking initiative available in IWitness combines testimony, technology and music to reshape Holocaust education.

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