News By Year and Month
USC professor receives new USC Shoah Foundation grant for use of 1937 Nanjing Massacre testimonies
EDITOR’S NOTE: USC Shoah Foundation last year launched an initiative to give out small grants to USC professors of any discipline who incorporate the Institute’s archive of genocide-survivor…
Thursday, May 31, 2018
2018 Conference Program Preview
"New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison"
The conference will be held November 4-7, 2018 at Doheny Library at USC and at Villa Aurora in…
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Call for Papers: In Global Transit: Forced Migration of Jews and other Refugees (1940s-1960s)
Call for Papers:
International Conference "In Global Transit: Forced Migration of Jews and other Refugees (1940s-1960s)"
May 19-22, 2019
Conference at GHI WEST and The MAGNES…
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Junior Interns finish video projects to counter intolerance
It was their last day to work together and the William P. Lauder Junior Interns still had plenty to get done.
Computers were running low on juice and the snacks were dwindling, but the students on…
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Women at Nuremberg: Cecelia Goetz
Editor’s Note: USC Shoah Foundation is spotlighting the under-examined efforts of women at the Nuremberg Trials in an eight-part series of stories that each focuses on the contribution of a different…
Friday, May 18, 2018
What ‘The Girl and The Picture’ is really about
EDITOR’S NOTE: Vanessa Roth is the director of ‘The Girl and The Picture,’ a documentary about a survivor of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre who shares her memory of the trauma with her granddaughter and…
Thursday, May 17, 2018
In Memory of Sara Shapiro
USC Shoah Foundation mourns the death of Sara Shapiro, a Holocaust survivor and mother of board member Mickey Shapiro.
Born Sara Guralnik in 1930 in Korets, Poland, she was expelled from school…
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Digital map of Nazi-occupied Paris shares forgotten stories
On Aug. 7, 1944, a French Jew in hiding named Ephim Chapiro took a tram from a suburb of Lyon into the city to celebrate his 47th birthday. Lyon had been occupied by Nazi Germany, but it felt safe: D…
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Academic journal: VR film 'Lala' an effective teaching tool for kids
A newly published article in the peer-reviewed journal Social Education focuses on the potential of virtual reality in the classroom, using USC Shoah Foundation’s virtual reality film Lala…
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
New book challenges conventional wisdom about why Nazis destroyed killing apparatus at Auschwitz
The killing apparatus at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp was destroyed in late 1944 not because Heinrich Himmler wanted to hide evidence of Nazi crimes, but because of a secret negotiated…
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
How to defuse Abbas the misinformationist
History has seen its fair share of propagandists, the most cunning of whom master the art of misinformation.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas proved himself once again to be a master…
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Two Little Girls in Rwanda
Editor’s note: This blog post is adapted from a speech delivered by Stephen Smith at the Kigale Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda on April 28 to commemorate the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in…
Monday, May 7, 2018
Massachusetts teacher sets the example for using IWitness
Lisa Farese has been busy. The eighth-grade language arts teacher in 2015 made USC Shoah Foundation headlines alongside two of her students, who won the IWitness Video Challenge Competition for a…
Monday, May 7, 2018
Women at Nuremberg: Harriet Zetterberg
Editor’s Note: Narratives surrounding the Nuremberg Trials overwhelmingly focus on the men. From U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson to the notorious Nazi leader Hermann Goering, the legacy of…
Friday, May 4, 2018
Deadline for 2018 Summer Junior Internship extended to May 11
The USC Shoah Foundation is looking for students in 7th– 12th grades who are interested in participating in its highly competitive William P. Lauder Junior Internship Program. The program provides a…
Friday, May 4, 2018
A very personal reflection on Germany in 2018…I just don’t understand!
Like many countries around the world, we commemorated Labor Day on May 1 here in Germany. The day also coincided with the beginning of a new government position – commissioner for Jewish life in…
Friday, May 4, 2018
Representatives of USC Shoah Foundation in Iraq for conference on trauma
Two USC Shoah Foundation representatives will participate in a conference this weekend in northern Iraq that seeks to address a dearth of psychological support for hundreds of thousands of refugees…
Friday, May 4, 2018
As antisemitism rears its head in France, so does indifference
As a non-Jew living in Paris, the scourge of antisemitism had, until recently, faded from my mind as a major concern.
But my eyes were opened in 2016 when I was approached by the USC Shoah…
Thursday, May 3, 2018
USC Shoah Foundation and Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale University to Provide Access to Each Other's Collections
Thanks to a new partnership between the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale University, researchers at both institutions can now access…
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Central African Republic testimonies document sectarian violence
Editor’s note: This story is part of a series highlighing the Institute's work in connection with various genocidal conflicts for Genocide Awareness Month, which occurs in April.
A new foothold…
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Holocaust survivor who became a celebrity handbag designer passes away at 97
Judith Leiber, a Holocaust survivor whose talent for making whimsical handbags took both the fashion and art worlds by storm, died Sunday in her New York home. She was 97.
She died just hours…
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Julien Zarifian Lecture Summary
Julien Zarifian (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France)
2017-2018 Visiting Fulbright Scholar
“The United States and the Question of the Armenian Genocide”
April 19, 2018
Julien Zarifian…
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Christopher R. Browning Presents on Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony in Annual Shapiro Scholar Lecture
Christopher R. Browning (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
2018 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence
“Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: The Case of the Starachowice…
Tuesday, May 1, 2018