News By Year and Month

USC Shoah Foundation redoubles efforts to collect testimonies of Holocaust survivors before it is too late

Miriam Katin survived the Holocaust as a toddler because her quick-thinking mother faked their deaths in Budapest at a historically perilous time for Jews in Hungary. Now 77, Katin has a thriving…
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Brigittine French Returns to the Center For Advanced Genocide Research As a Visiting Scholar

Brigittine M. French, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at Grinnell College, will return to the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research…
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Maël Lenoc Awarded 2019-2020 Greenberg Research Fellowship

Maël LeNoc, a PhD Candidate in Geography at Texas State University, has been awarded the 2019-2020 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellowship at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced…
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Ionida Costache Awarded 2019-2020 Breslauer, Rutman And Anderson Research Fellowship

Ioanida Costache, a PhD Candidate in Music at Stanford University, has been awarded the 2019-2020 Breslauer, Rutman and Anderson Research Fellowship at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for…
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

University of Toronto course takes a data-science approach to viewing Holocaust testimonies in the Archive

Any individual testimony of a Holocaust survivor tells a story that is personalized and unique. But a new Jewish Studies class at the University of Toronto is encouraging students to watch USC…
Friday, July 26, 2019

Teaching the Holocaust in Latin America

The Holocaust is not widely taught in Latin America. Few books on the subject are available in Spanish, and university classes that do touch on the history are sometimes outdated. …
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

USC Shoah Foundation concludes '100 Voices to Remember' Twitter campaign

Today marks the last day of the USC Shoah Foundation’s 100 Voices to Remember Twitter project, a string of daily quotes from a different witness of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda for…
Monday, July 15, 2019

In memory of Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor and Holocaust educator Eva Kor

USC Shoah Foundation is saddened by the recent loss of Eva Kor, a Holocaust survivor who – along with her twin sister – endured cruel experiments conducted on her at Auschwitz, and, half a…
Monday, July 8, 2019

Middle school and high school students spend a week at the Institute

USC Shoah Foundation’s William P. Lauder Junior Internship Program kicked off with discussions about the importance of being an upstander in their communities. It continued with a trip to the…
Tuesday, July 2, 2019