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Witness for the Future 266206 USC Shoah Foundation Marks 30-Year Anniversary /content/witness-future Link: /new-survivor-testimonies Horizontal Align: Left Vertical Align: Middle

Learn more about our continuing Holocaust survivor collection efforts

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Recovered Testimony Brings Light, More Questions, to an Armenian Family 264021 /content/recovered-testimony-brings-light-more-questions-armenian-family Link: /news/2024/04/36301-recovered-testimony-brings-light-more-questions-armenian-family Horizontal Align: Center Vertical Align: Middle

Staff member Sedda Antekelian writes about her great-grandmother's recorded testimony.

We share her story in observance of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.

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University Medallion honors Holocaust survivors, USC Shoah Foundation 265916 /content/university-medallion-honors-holocaust-survivors-usc-shoah-foundation Horizontal Align: Right Vertical Align: Middle

Founder Steven Spielberg, Institute Leadership, and USC Community Commemorate Thirty Years of Amplifying Survivor Voices

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USC Shoah Foundation Partners with Living Links, First National Organization for Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors USC Shoah Foundation Partners with Living Links, First National Organization for Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors Thursday, May 9, 2024 - 9:35am Living Links, the first national organization created to engage and empower third-generation (3G) descendants of Holocaust survivors, has joined forces with the USC Shoah Foundation. The new partnership will expand a Living Links program that teaches 3Gs to share their family stories in classrooms and with community groups to counter antisemitism, bigotry and hate. At a time when the number of Holocaust survivors is dwindling and antisemitism is on the rise, 3Gs are uniquely positioned to offer personal accounts about how unchecked intolerance and hate led to the Holocaust. https://sfi.usc.edu/news/2024/05/36446-usc-shoah-foundation-partners-living-links-first-national-organization 266216 266216

Lea Zajac de Novera’s Dimensions in Testimony Brings Spanish-Language Holocaust Education to Classrooms Lea Zajac de Novera’s Dimensions in Testimony Brings Spanish-Language Holocaust Education to Classrooms Monday, May 6, 2024 - 2:53pm The USC Shoah Foundation and The Latin American Network for Education on the Shoah (Red LAES) have launched a new educational web page featuring the first Spanish-language Dimensions in Testimony (DiT), an interactive biography that invites students to engage in conversation with the recorded testimony of a Holocaust survivor. https://sfi.usc.edu/news/2024/05/36431-lea-zajac-de-novera%E2%80%99s-dimensions-testimony-brings-spanish-language-holocaust 266211 266211

Call for Applications Call for Applications Monday, April 29, 2024 - 5:26pm 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. https://sfi.usc.edu/news/2024/04/36371-call-applications-gender-sexual-violence 266176 266176 Non-Residential Colloquium: Gender and Sexual Violence in the Holocaust

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266241 The Genocide of the Roma in Southeastern Europe (1941-1945) May 23, 2024 /events/genocide-roma-southeastern-europe-1941-1945 23 Dr. Milovan Pisarri, research fellow at Belgrade University, lectures on the mechanisms that led to the Roma Genocide in southeastern Europe, the history of anti-Roma racism, and the reasons behind the general lack of interest in the topic.… May 1

266236 Samudaripen: Reflecting on the Holocaust of Roma and Sinti From Remembrance to Contemporary Anti-Roma Prejudice May 31, 2024 /events/samudaripen-reflecting-holocaust-roma-and-sinti 31 Dr. Justyna Matkowska, postdoctoral researcher at the Adam Mickiewicz University of Poland and adjunct faculty at SUNY, will uncover the stories and struggles of the Roma and Sinti people during World War II, bringing new perspectives to this lesser-known aspect of Holocaust history and informing modern approaches to remembrance… May 1

264881 Antisemitism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust June 4, 2024 /events/antisemitism-aftermath-holocaust 04 At the close of World War II, the Allies labeled survivors of the Holocaust as either displaced persons (DPs), refugees, or stateless persons. These categories included Jews, prisoners of war, Roma and Sinti, forced laborers, and perpetrators who used the chaos to hide their identity. But as the scale of the humanitarian disaster became more... Jun 1