News By Year and Month
Rohingya refugee interviews recorded by Institute show a genocidal pattern
During her tenure at USC Shoah Foundation, Karen Jungblut has interviewed hundreds of genocide survivors from history’s most horrific chapters: the Holocaust, the 1994 Rwandan genocide against…
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
What was unique about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising?
The Jewish ghetto in Bialystok had easy access to weaponry.
The Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Vilna had a resistance leader – the poet Abba Kovner – who famously shouted the true…
Thursday, February 22, 2018
In the Aftermath of Tragedy in Florida
At the exact moment a former student was destroying lives at Stoneman Douglas High School, a group of students inside a classroom was studying ways to make the world a better place.
These were…
Friday, February 16, 2018
IWitness debuts timeline activities for high school students with lesson about Elie Wiesel's 'Night'
Elie Wiesel’s landmark book “Night” is the subject of a new type of English-language IWitness activity produced by USC Shoah Foundation’s education department.
In “Journey Through Night,” the…
Friday, February 16, 2018
Holocaust survivor Hannah Kent passes away at 88
USC Shoah Foundation is deeply saddened by the passing of Hannah Kent, who survived three concentration camps and a death march, but went on to live a full life filled with love, family and resolve…
Thursday, February 15, 2018
IWitness Activities for American Black History Month — Day 3
Editor’s Note:
February is Black History Month, a time to acknowledge and celebrate the central role African Americans have made in the United States. In honor of this special time, we invite…
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
"The Last Goodbye" Wins a Top Virtual Reality Prize at 2018 Lumiere Awards
“The Last Goodbye,” a virtual-reality film that brings the viewer inside a Nazi concentration camp with Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter, won a top prize at the 2018 Lumiere Awards hosted Monday by…
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Remembering Margot Schlesinger, Auschwitz Survivor
We are sorry to hear about the recent passing of Jewish Holocaust survivor Margot Schlesinger. The Chicago resident was 99.
Schlesinger gave her testimony to USC Shoah Foundation in 1995.
Born…
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Aegis education team dives deep into IWitness during visit to Institute
In Rwanda, where the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi remains a fresh wound, education is a critical piece of promoting lasting peace.
A group with Aegis’s education team in Rwanda has concluded a…
Monday, February 12, 2018
Poland's Holocaust law defies history - and embodies a troubling trend
Even absent this current era of “alternative facts” and “fake news,” the new Polish law making it a crime to point out Poland’s complicity in the Holocaust would be alarming.
But that it is…
Friday, February 9, 2018
IWitness Stories for American Black History Month — Day 2
Editor’s Note:
February is Black History Month, a time to acknowledge and celebrate the central role African Americans have made in the United States. In honor of this special time, we invite…
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
2018 Polish-Israeli Crisis: History, Trauma, and Politics of Cultural Memory
The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.
- Zygmunt Bauman
The future of…
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
2018 Polish-Israeli Crisis: History, Trauma, and Politics of Cultural Memory
The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.
- Zygmunt Bauman
2018 Polish…
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
In Memory of Arkadii Vaispapir, Survivor of Sobibór Death Camp
We are saddened to learn of the recent passing of Arkadii Vaispapir, one of few people ever to have survived the Sobibór death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Holocaust. He was 96.
…
Monday, February 5, 2018
IWitness Stories for American Black History Month
Editor’s Note:
February is Black History Month, a time to acknowledge and celebrate the central role African Americans have made in the United States. In honor of this special time, we invite…
Monday, February 5, 2018
Christopher R. Browning Named the 2017-2018 Shapiro Scholar in Residence
Professor Emeritus Christopher R. Browning, considered one of the world’s leading experts on the subjects of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, will serve as the 2017-2018 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar…
Monday, February 5, 2018
2018-2019 Center Research Fellowship Awarded to Jean-Marc Dreyfus (University of Manchester)
Jean-Marc Dreyfus, PhD, Reader in Holocaust Studies in the History department at the University of Manchester (United Kingdom) and former Director of the European Research Council’s Corpses of…
Monday, February 5, 2018
Diane Marie Amann Lecture Summary
Diane Marie Amann (University of Georgia and Leiden University, the Netherlands)
2017-2018 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow
"Women at Nuremberg"
January 30, 2018
Diane…
Friday, February 2, 2018