News By Year and Month

Rwandan was a pillar in the survivor community

We are saddened at the recent death of Emmanuel Ndashimye, a survivor of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi, whose testimony is in the Institute’s Visual History Archive. Born in 1957 in…
Thursday, August 30, 2018

Call for Applications: 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Week

Call for Applications 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Week Deadline: November 15, 2018 The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites proposals…
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Universal Pictures Commemorates 25th Anniversary of 'Schindler’s List' with Remastered Re-release

Universal City, CA, August 29, 2018—To commemorate the 25th anniversary release of Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece Schindler’s List, one of the most significant endeavors in the history of cinema,…
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

USC student government kicks off the year with an IWitness activity

Leon Bass helped liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany during World War II, only to be excluded from his college dormitory at West Chester University in Pennsylvania upon his return…
Monday, August 27, 2018

Voices of the Rohingya

Bringing attention to the ongoing crisis for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education has teamed with CNN to share voices of…
Friday, August 24, 2018

Hungarian study: the Institute's video testimonies of Holocaust survivors boost student empathy

Hungarian students in middle and high school who watch video testimonies of Holocaust survivors from USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive in their history classes are developing more…
Thursday, August 23, 2018

Martin Gruber is the 14th young Austrian to work at the Institute in lieu of military service

At the end of childhood, every young man in Austria faces a mandatory choice, and when he was in high school, Martin Gruber was unsure what to do. He could either join the vast majority of his…
Thursday, August 23, 2018

Sharing her father's story

The book sat conspicuously alone on a shelf, a forgotten beacon that called out to be read. But it wasn’t until she was 36 – and decades after her father died – that Noemie Lopian felt the…
Monday, August 20, 2018

USC Shoah Foundation showcases its programming in Aspen, Colo.

USC Shoah Foundation was pleased to host a tripartite series of evening programming in Aspen, Colo., devoted to preserving testimony and cultivating empathy on Aug. 6th, 7th, and 8th. The first night…
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Historical geographer uses technology to examine intersect of perpetrators, victims in Holocaust ghettos

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research first began a partnership with the Holocaust Geographies Collaborative in 2014, when the team visited the Institute to explore the ways…
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

The people who helped

The New York Times recently published a piece about the rerelease of a book that spotlighted the efforts of non-Jewish Europeans who risked their lives to protect Jews during the Holocaust. The…
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

'The Girl and the Picture' to screen at the HollyShorts Film Festival

The Girl and the Picture, USC Shoah Foundation’s documentary about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, will screen Thursday as part of the HollyShorts Film Festival. The film will be shown as part of a two…
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

USC Shoah Foundation’s Stephen Smith among group of Holocaust experts to reach out to Mark Zuckerberg

USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith joined a group of leaders from Holocaust and genocide-awareness organizations who signed a letter offering to meet with Facebook CEO Mark…
Monday, August 13, 2018

Charlottesville: One Year Later

A year ago, violence broke out at a rally organized by white nationalists seeking to protect a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing a counter-protester and sparking a national…
Friday, August 10, 2018

"The Girl and the Picture" wins top doc award

“The Girl and The Picture,” USC Shoah Foundation’s documentary about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, has won the Impact DOCS Award for Outstanding Achievement, it was announced Thursday. The…
Thursday, August 9, 2018

Polish educators complete first phase of annual teaching-with-testimony program

A new group of educators in Poland has completed the first phase of a yearlong training program on how to best use video testimonies of genocide survivors and witnesses in the classroom. On July 8…
Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Herman Shine, who escaped Auschwitz, passes away at 95

As he described in the testimony he gave to USC Shoah Foundation in 1997, it was one stroke of luck after another that allowed Herman Shine to become one of only a few hundred people to escape the…
Monday, August 6, 2018

We Remember: Roma Holocaust Memorial Day

On August 2, 1944, nearly 3,000 Roma and Sinti women, men and children were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Seventy-one years later, the date was formally declared “Roma…
Saturday, August 4, 2018

Danielle Willard-Kyle Awarded 2018-2019 Center Graduate Research Fellowship

Danielle Willard-Kyle, a PhD candidate in History at Rutgers University, has been awarded the 2018-2019 Center Graduate Research Fellowship at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide…
Saturday, August 4, 2018

Bieke Van Camp Awarded 2018-2019 Katz Research Fellowship

Bieke Van Camp, a PhD candidate in Contemporary History at University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier (France), has been awarded the 2018-2019 Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship at the USC Shoah Foundation…
Saturday, August 4, 2018

Lukas Meissel Awarded 2018-2019 Greenberg Research Fellowship

Lukas Meissel, a PhD candidate in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa, Israel, has been awarded the 2018-2019 Greenberg Research Fellowship at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced…
Saturday, August 4, 2018

Gabór M. Tóth Awarded 2018-2019 Center Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Gabór M. Tóth, a postdoctoral associate currently completing a dual fellowship at the Yale University Digital Humanities Lab and the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, has been…
Saturday, August 4, 2018

Dr. Anne-Berenike Rothstein to Visit USC Shoah Foundation to Research New Ways of Transforming and Mediating Memory of the Holocaust

Dr. Anne-Berenike Rothstein, a researcher in the Department of Romance and Comparative Literature and an Academic Counselor at the University of Konstanz, Germany, will visit the USC Shoah Foundation…
Saturday, August 4, 2018

Call for Papers: Memory through the Screen: Polish Cinema and WWII

Call for Papers: International Conference "Memory through the Screen: Polish Cinema and WWII" October 18-19, 2018 USC Department of Slavic Language and Literature's 3rd Annual Film…
Thursday, August 2, 2018