Levon Ghanimian, an Armenian American educator, researcher, and PhD student from Northridge, California, has long felt a personal connection to the history of the Armenian Genocide. Read More

The Countering Antisemitism Lab at the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, with the support of the USC Graduate School, invites applications for the USC Shoah Foundation Epstein Family DC Campus Graduate Fellows during the 2026-27 academic year. Read More

The Countering Antisemitism Lab at the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, with the support of the USC Graduate School, invites applications for the USC Shoah Foundation Epstein Family DC Campus Graduate Fellows during the 2026-27 academic year. Read More

Two years ago, on October 7, 2023, the world watched in horror as Hamas carried out a deadly series of terror attacks across southern Israel. We were privileged to record the testimonies of more than 400 survivors of these attacks. Their experiences and the world’s responses to them demonstrated how antisemitism persists through the present day.May these survivors and everyone impacted by such senseless violence know peace in our time. Read More

USC Shoah Foundation mourns the loss of Holocaust survivor and beloved friend of the Institute Paula Lebovics. She was 92 years old.Lebovics was one of the 12 children standing behind the barbed wire of Auschwitz in a famous photo taken by the Soviet Army after liberation. By this time in history, Lebovics had experienced a ghetto, concentration camp, death camp and the permanent separation of her family – and she was only 12 years old. Read More

We remember Ben Lesser, Holocaust survivor and dedicated advocate for Holocaust remembrance.Ben was born in Kraków, Poland, in 1928. Ben and his family were able to avoid the Krakow ghetto by moving to a nearby town, but were eventually forced into the Bochnia ghetto. In 1944, his family was separated and sent to Auschwitz. From there, Ben survived Dörnhau, Buchenwald, and Dachau concentration camps. He and his sister were the only members of his family of seven to survive. Read More