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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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

Visual History Archive – The world’s largest video collection of Holocaust survivor testimony
Dimensions in Testimony – Interactive Interviews with survivors
Contemporary Antisemitism – Experiences from around the world covering 1945 to the present

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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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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.

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The Stories We Inherit: Alice Lok Cahana's Legacy Lives On

Earlier this year, during the USC Shoah Foundation's Yom HaShoah commemoration, Holocaust survivor Yetta Kane and her granddaughter shared the stage to talk about what it means to pass a survivor's story from one generation to the next. Their conversation stayed with me, particularly the idea of being a "testimony inheritor." Read More

USC Shoah Foundation leadership attend IHRA plenary in Argentina

From November 2-5, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance held its second Plenary in Buenos Aires under the Argentine Presidency.The Plenary brings governments and experts together to strengthen Holocaust education, remembrance, and research. The theme of the Argentine Presidency,“Expanding the Frontiers of Remembrance,” is focused on strengthening connections between the IHRA and Latin American countries and bringing them into discussions about Holocaust remembrance and confronting antisemitism. Read More

Preserving Holocaust Testimonies at Risk of Being Lost

With assistance from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the German Federal Ministry of Finance, and the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future, the USC Shoah Foundation has preserved and made accessible approximately 600 Holocaust survivor testimonies that were at risk of being lost or remaining inaccessible to future generations. Now available in the Visual History Archive (VHA), these interviews come from collections created across multiple decades and continents. Read More

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