The Programs Division at the USC Shoah Foundation invites applications for its Azrieli Research Fellowships during the 2026-2027 academic year. The call is open to students enrolled in master’s or doctoral programs at accredited institutions or who have finished a master’s or doctoral degree within the last 5 years and continue to pursue academic research related to the relevant topic with or without an official academic post. Those with academic positions must be untenured. Read More

The Programs Division at the USC Shoah Foundation invites applications for its Azrieli Research Fellowships during the 2026-2027 academic year. The call is open to students enrolled in master’s or doctoral programs at accredited institutions or who have finished a master’s or doctoral degree within the last 5 years and continue to pursue academic research related to the relevant topic with or without an official academic post. Those with academic positions must be untenured. Read More

USC Shoah Foundation honors the memory of Samuel Harris, born Szlamek Rzeznik in May 1935. His story of survival and will as a youth during the Holocaust continues to inspire all who hear it that, as he said, “the human spirit is more powerful than anything on earth.” He was 90.  Read More

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