News By Year and Month

Remembering the Warsaw Uprising

EDITOR'S NOTE: The German army was in retreat and Polish citizens hoped to take control of Warsaw before approaching Soviet forces arrived. On Aug. 1, 1944, 50,000 members of the Polish…
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Former congresswoman who expelled Nazis, gave testimony to Institute quits Homeland Security advisory council in protest

Elizabeth Holtzman, the former U.S. congresswoman who helped expel Nazi war criminals from the United States during her time in the House of Representatives – and a longtime friend of USC Shoah…
Friday, July 20, 2018

Educators convene in Hungary and Poland for training on using genocide-survivor testimony in lessons

USC Shoah Foundation has launched its annual Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century program, a one-year professional development program for educators that begins with a six-day seminar for…
Friday, July 20, 2018

Make a clear choice: Deny all Holocaust deniers

Dear Mark Zuckerberg I am delighted that at Recode you promised to rid Facebook of rampant misinformation; that is a step of real leadership that we need at this time. While I was initially…
Friday, July 20, 2018

Teens tackle world problems at Institute's first weeklong summer internship program

When Awnah Dodd first arrived from Michigan, she was unsure that she was in the right place. But after spending five days as part of USC Shoah Foundation’s first summer William P. Lauder Internship…
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

What is propaganda? IWitness activity for Czech students explores 1968 Prague Spring

EDITOR’S NOTE: At a time when the term “fake news” has become pervasive – and when rising nationalism worldwide has had an especially pronounced effect on Central Europe – USC Shoah Foundation’s…
Monday, July 16, 2018

The Consul General of Austria in Los Angeles pays visit to USC Shoah Foundation

The Consul General of Austria in Los Angeles paid a visit to USC Shoah Foundation this week to familiarize himself with the Institute's work. Andreas Launer, who took the position in August…
Friday, July 13, 2018

Production begins on new 360 testimony featuring Holocaust survivor on site at concentration camp

Up and down, up and down. All day, every day. From the base of a stone quarry, inmates of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria were compelled by Nazis during the Holocaust to climb 186…
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

William P. Lauder Junior Internship Program in Full Swing

What is an upstander? What shapes our identity? What causes othering? How and why do genocides occur and how are they remembered? In what ways do you choose to become a bystander or to become an…
Monday, July 9, 2018

Holocaust Deniers Gaining a Foothold in our Democracy

It’s hard to imagine I’m even typing this sentence, but an avowed Holocaust denier is the official Republican nominee for an upcoming congressional election in Illinois, while a man whose website…
Monday, July 9, 2018

A Boy from Bustina: A Son, a Survivor, a Witness: Andrew Burian

Born in 1930, in Bustina, Czechoslovakia, Holocaust survivor Andrew Burian was forcefully taken from his home at the age of 13 and imprisoned, first in the Mateszalka Ghetto in Hungary, and then in…
Monday, July 9, 2018

Claude Lanzmann passes away at 92

USC Shoah Foundation is saddened to learn of the passing of Claude Lanzmann, whose monumental film "Shoah" introduced a new way of telling the story of the Holocaust. He died in Paris on Tuesday. He…
Thursday, July 5, 2018

Linguistics professor mines the Archive for material that will augment his research on marginalized languages

Aria Razfar grew up in a Spanish-speaking neighborhood in Los Angeles and a multilingual family. When he was an undergrad studying biochemistry at UCLA in the early 1990s, he realized that he had…
Tuesday, July 3, 2018