News By Year and Month

“We Share The Same Sky” Is The First Testimony-Based Podcast Presented By USC Shoah Foundation

Award-Winning Photographer, Writer and Educator Rachael Cerrotti Tells the Extraordinary Story of Her Grandmother’s Escape from the Nazis by Retracing Her Grandmother’s Steps…
Monday, September 30, 2019

In memory of Holocaust survivor Jack Welner, who became soulmates with his USC Shoah Foundation interviewer

We are saddened to hear of the recent passing of Jack Welner, who survived a Jewish ghetto in Poland, a labor camp near the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, and the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in…
Friday, September 27, 2019

Antisemitism and Sports

Jewish track-and-field athlete Margaret Lambert remembers the pressure she felt when competing in the Adolf Hitler Stadium during the 1936 Olympic tryouts for a non-Jewish audience that objected to…
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Personal stories of surviving the Holocaust unveiled at powerful art exhibition

Painter David Kassan has sat with survivors of the Holocaust for countless hours during the past five years, carefully listening to their stories of pain, grief, resilience and quiet victory. He has…
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Swedish History Museum’s first-ever Holocaust exhibit a success

Early this year, when the Swedish History Museum opened its exhibit about the Holocaust – an exhibit that includes USC Shoah Foundation testimonies and some of its interactive biographies – it marked…
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Call for Papers: The Future of Holocaust Testimonies: Preserving, Researching, and Re-Presenting Survivor’s Voices

Survivors and their testimonies have been central to Holocaust research and memorial culture. Even before the end of the Shoah, survivor historians in parts of Eastern Europe liberated from Nazi…
Friday, September 6, 2019

Call for Applications: 2020-2021 PhD Candidate Fellowships

Call for Applications from PhD Candidates Greenberg Research Fellowship Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship 2020-2021 …
Friday, September 6, 2019

The Center Awards Third Interdisciplinary Research Week Opportunity to International Team

Each year, the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research hosts an interdisciplinary team of scholars from different universities and different countries for one week so that they can…
Friday, September 6, 2019

USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education Award $10,000 in Scholarships and Prizes to 2019 ‘Stronger Than Hate Challenge’ Winners

In an effort to spark a social movement against hatred in all forms, USC Shoah Foundation, established by Steven Spielberg after his experience filming “Schindler’s List”— which gave voice to…
Thursday, September 5, 2019