The new Education Center in Miami, Florida, features the USC Shoah Foundation’s Dimensions in Testimony and USC Libraries Interactive Interviews from Holocaust survivors and liberators, including one in Spanish. Read More

Yad Vashem and USC Shoah Foundation are partnering with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance to offer a free seminar for early-career Holocaust researchers.This seminar brings together PhD students and early-career researchers (PhD conferred 2021-2026) from IHRA member, observer, and liaison countries. Participants will deepen their subject expertise, strengthen their teaching and research skills, and expand their professional networks. Read More

Andrew Roth, Holocaust survivor who made headlines last year for his emotional meeting with Jack Moran, a WWII liberator, passed away last week at age 98.Andrew was born in 1927 in Penészlek, Hungary. By the time Andrew entered middle school, he faced drastic changes in his daily life as restrictions on his freedoms worsened. In 1944, Andrew and his family were forced into the Satu Mare ghetto, and later that year, Auschwitz concentration camp. Upon arrival, someone told him to say he was 18 and had an occupation, which saved his life. Read More

Colleagues from the USC Shoah Foundation’s education team presented at this year’s Winter Institute, “School Leadership to End Hate and Inspire Courage,” for the California Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education on March 2 in Sacramento, California. Over 145 educators, district superintendents, principals, and teachers representing more than 25 districts across California were in attendance. Keynote speakers included California Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tony Thurmond and State Senator Henry Stern, a key supporter of the Collaborative. Read More

The USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to announce that the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has selected Sam Gustman, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Director of Collections at the USC Shoah Foundation, as a Senior Member of the Academy, recognizing his sustained record of innovation and public impact.Senior Member status is conferred on inventors whose work has demonstrably shaped their fields and served the greater good. Gustman will be inducted at the Academy’s 15th Annual Conference in Los Angeles, joining an international community of 945 Senior Members. Read More

Sarah Gensburger, Professor of Political Science and History at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Sciences Po Paris, will serve as the 2025-2026 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research. She will spend over a week in residence at the Center in April and will deliver the Annual Sara and Asa Shapiro Lecture entitled “Homes as Witnesses of the Holocaust in Paris” on April 14, 2026. Read More