Witness for the Future

30 years

Ben FerenczNuremberg Prosecutor
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What We Do

The USC Shoah Foundation collects, preserves, and amplifies the voices of the past to build a resilient future. Our research programs, interactive technologies, and global-impact initiatives help foster insights and practical solutions to preserve Holocaust memory, confront antisemitism, and strengthen democratic values.

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Innovative Approaches to Countering Antisemitism

We are expanding our efforts to record testimonies from those who have experienced antisemitism and launching new research initiatives to understand and counter the global resurgence in antisemitism.

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Oct 7 Testimonies

Documenting The Terror Attacks

We have recorded more than 400 interviews with survivors and witnesses of the deadliest antisemitic attack since the Holocaust. These testimonies are part of our Contemporary Antisemitism Collection.

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Preserving and Amplifying Survivor Voices

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Global Impact

Shaping Scholarship and Public Policy

We engage with researchers, international policymakers, and partner institutions to ensure that survivor voices inform forward-looking scholarship and influence public discourse.

Innovation and Research Advancing Humanity

Contemporary Antisemitism

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Antisemitism Lecture Series

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Interactive Interviews

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Transformative Research

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By the Numbers

56,000

Video Testimonies

65

Countries

45

Languages

2 million

Searchable Names

700,000

Photographs
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Our Story

Celebrating 30 Years

Founded in 1994, the USC Shoah Foundation ushers in a new era with initiatives aimed at opening up the world’s largest video collection of Holocaust testimony to new generations while focusing on research and awareness around the global effort to counter antisemitism.

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Innovative Technologies

Reimagining Holocaust Remembrance

Our state-of-the-art digital archive is accessible worldwide. We bring testimony to the public through interactive biographies, award-winning virtual reality and XR experiences, on-location testimonies, and a digital educational platform accessed by millions.

Latest News

Call for Applications
The Division of Academic Programs at the USC Shoah Foundation invites applications from PhD candidates and early-career scholars for the inaugural cohort of fellows in its non-residential colloquium “Gender and Sexual Violence in the Holocaust.” We understand this topic broadly and are seeking applicants whose work touches on the members of any nation or population affected by these issues, as well as the long-term impact and legacies of these histories. from the between 1933 and 1955, though we will also consider projects whose scope may examine the legacies of this violence. Read More
Monday, April 29, 2024 - 5:26pm
Call for Applications
The Division of Academic Programs at the USC Shoah Foundation invites applications from PhD candidates and early-career scholars for the inaugural cohort of fellows in its non-residential colloquium “The LGBTQIA+ Community in the Holocaust.” We understand this topic broadly and are seeking applicants whose work touches on the members of any nation persecuted by the Nazis or their allies for their sexual identity, along with the long-term impact and legacies of this history. Read More
Monday, April 29, 2024 - 3:37pm
Statement from our Executive Director on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
On April 24, we call on the world to remember the genocide of the Armenian people. 109 years ago, during the First World War, Ottoman authorities arrested hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul). At the time, the Ottoman Empire was under the control of the relatively new leadership of the Young Turks; a party that had sought to create an ethnically homogenous Turkish state – a state that would have little space for the millions of Armenians then living in that empire. Read More
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - 10:48am
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