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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
80 years ago: An international conference to discuss Jewish refugees ends in failure
Eighty years ago, at the behest of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, representatives from 32 countries convened for a refugee conference in Evian-les-Bains, France to address a gathering storm in…
Friday, June 29, 2018
Kimberly Cheng Awarded 2018-2019 Breslauer, Rutman and Anderson Research Fellowship
Kimberly Cheng, a PhD candidate in the Joint PhD Program in Hebrew and Judaic Studies and History at New York University, has been awarded the 2018-2019 Breslauer, Rutman and Anderson Research…
Friday, June 29, 2018
Center for Advanced Genocide Research Awards 2018-2019 International Teaching Fellowship to Ildikó Barna
Ildikó Barna, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences and Program Director of the department’s Ethnic and Minority Policy MA Program at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE),…
Friday, June 29, 2018
Karen Painter to visit Center for Advanced Genocide Research as 2018-2019 International Teaching Fellow Honorable Mention
Karen Painter, Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities will be visiting the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research for one week this summer…
Friday, June 29, 2018
Center for Advanced Genocide Research Awards Inaugural Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship to Virginia Bullington
Virginia Bullington, a sophomore at USC from Nantucket, Massachusetts majoring in American Studies and Narrative Studies, has been chosen as the first-ever Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellow…
Friday, June 29, 2018
Sanna Stegmaier Awarded 2018-2019 Center Graduate Research Fellow Honorable Mention
Sanna Stegmaier, a second-year joint PhD student in German Studies and Cultural Studies at King’s College, London and Humboldt University, Berlin, has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2018…
Friday, June 29, 2018
Librarian's Corner: MSU Librarian Deborah Margolis Visits the Center for Advanced Genocide Research
This article is part of a newsletter series introducing librarians who are advocates for the VHA at their institutions.
In the first part of our Librarian’s Corner series, we are…
Friday, June 29, 2018
Visiting Scholars Spend Summer Exploring the Visual History Archive
This summer, the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research is hosting three visiting scholars, who have traveled from across the country to conduct research in the Visual History…
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Women at Nuremberg: Vivien Spitz
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…
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
USC literature professor receives USC Shoah Foundation grant for innovative use of poetry by genocide survivors
EDITOR’S NOTE: USC Shoah Foundation this year launched an initiative to give out small grants to USC professors of any discipline who incorporate the Institute’s archive of genocide-survivor…
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Facebook Fans the Flames of Violence Against the Rohingya
When I met the war photographer, he was having his morning coffee on the beach. He had already been in Cox’s Bazar for a month for The New York Times and had no idea when he was going back home.
…
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Call for Papers: The Future of Holocaust Testimonies V
Call for Papers:
The Future of Holocaust Testimonies V: An International Conference and Workshop
March 11-13, 2019
The Holocaust Studies Program of Western Galilee College,…
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
IWitness Video Challenge winners prompt fellow students to reflect on immigration struggles of their ancestors
The United States is a large and diverse country, but the family trees of many Americans are rooted in the challenges of being an immigrant.
That is a key takeaway from this year's winning entry…
Monday, June 18, 2018
In Memory of Gena Turgel, the 'Bride of Belsen' who cared for Anne Frank
USC Shoah Foundation mourns the recent passing of Gena Turgel, a Holocaust survivor who married a British liberator of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, where she was…
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Women at Nuremberg: Belle Mayer Zeck
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…
Monday, June 11, 2018
Librarian at Michigan State University is an ambassador for the Visual History Archive
To date, about 90 universities around the world have a subscription to the Visual History Archive. At Michigan State University, which signed on three years ago, students and faculty benefit from an…
Thursday, June 7, 2018
D-Day Anniversary: Army war photographer recalls the story of a dramatic rescue photo
Aboard a landing craft en route to Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, Walter Rosenblum, age 24, had never seen a dead body. But then the hatch opened, exposing troops to German gunfire from the hills…
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Why are dozens of streets in New Jersey named after Oskar Schindler?
Atop the piano in Ruth Katz’s childhood home was a picture of a man she knew only as “Uncle Oskar.”
Her father, Abraham Zuckerman, had lost his entire family during the Holocaust and wanted his…
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
The racism of the Jim Crow South and Nazi Germany are compared and analyzed at seminar co-led by USC Shoah Foundation’s Wolf Gruner
In the segregated American South, racist laws banning blacks from public places such as libraries and swimming pools were instituted at the local level.
In Germany, laws placing similar…
Monday, June 4, 2018
UNESCO to use new USC Shoah Foundation testimonies in initiative to counter rising antisemitism
Chouna Lomponda, the communications director of the Jewish Museum of Belgium; Viviane Teitelbaum, member of the Brussels Parliament in Belgium; Abdelghani Merah, brother of Mohammed Merah, a…
Friday, June 1, 2018