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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

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

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

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

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 Few books on the subject are available in Spanish, and university classes that do touch on the history are sometimes outdated.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

USC Shoah Foundation Announces New Board of Councilors Leadership Appointments

USC Shoah Foundation—The Institute for Visual History and Education (USC Shoah Foundation) announced today the appointment of Lee Liberman as Chair of its Board of Councilors and Joel Citron as Vice…
Thursday, June 27, 2019

The Institute hosts winners of Chapman University’s 20th Annual Holocaust Art and Writing Contest

The USC Shoah Foundation hosted winners of the 20th Annual Holocaust Art and Writing Contest on Monday, June 24. Participants were asked to create artistic or written responses to Holocaust…
Thursday, June 27, 2019

2019-2020 Center Junior Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Awarded to Mehmet Polatel

Mehmet Polatel, PhD and 2018-2019 Postdoctoral Fellow in Armenian Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has been awarded the 2019-2020 Center Junior Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at…
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Ayşenur Korkmaz Awarded 2019-2020 Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies

Ayşenur Korkmaz, a PhD candidate in European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has been awarded the 2019-2020 Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies at the USC Shoah…
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Holocaust Museum Houston opens permanent display of Dimensions in Testimony

Holocaust Museum Houston this weekend will become the fourth museum in the world to permanently display USC Shoah Foundation’s Dimensions in Testimony, which enables viewers to verbally ask questions…
Friday, June 21, 2019

Donor enables indexing of Lithuanian testimonies, unlocking history of one of the hardest-hit countries in the Holocaust

When it comes to implementing Nazi Germany’s Final Solution, few places were more successful than Nazi-occupied Lithuania. More than 90 percent of the country’s wartime Jewish population of 250,000…
Friday, June 14, 2019

Architecture and design of USC Shoah Foundation headquarters bring spotlight to Institute’s work

USC Shoah Foundation’s state-of-the-art new global headquarters on the fourth floor of Leavey Library is the focus of an extensive piece in this month’s edition of Interior Design magazine. Noting…
Friday, June 7, 2019

Liberator testimonies: 75 years after D-Day

In the predawn hours of June 6, 1944 – 75 years ago this week – an armada of Allied ships sailed across the English Channel and began unloading thousands of troops into shallow waters off the shores…
Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Latin American Interdisciplinary Research Week Team Returns to the Center

This month, the 2017-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Week team came together again for their second weeklong residency at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research. With its…
Friday, May 31, 2019

Dr. Ruth’s journey: from “Holocaust orphan” to worldwide fame

In the 1980s, a tiny woman in her 50s named Ruth Westheimer shocked and delighted the world with her blunt advice – delivered in a grandmotherly German accent – about sex. She became a media…
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Center for Advanced Genocide Research Awards 2019 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship to Anna Lee

Anna Lee, a junior at USC from Los Angeles, California majoring in English Literature with minors in Spanish and Teaching English as a Second language (TESOL), has been chosen as the 2019 Beth and…
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Holocaust survivors tell their stories on location at concentration camps for 360-degree videos

Max Glauben was 13 when his family’s apartment was destroyed in the historic battle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Eva Kuper was 2 when her mother’s cousin rescued her from a train in the frantic…
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

“Missing Links: Social Bonds and Barriers amongst Italian Jewish Deportees” by Bieke Van Camp (PhD candidate, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France), 2018-2019 Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies, April 23, 2019 (lecture summary)

Bieke Van Camp, the 2018-2019 Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, delivered a public lecture entitled “Missing Links:…
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

“Afterlives: Memories of the Displaced Persons Camps in Italy” by Danielle Willard-Kyle (PhD candidate, Rutgers University, History), 2018-2019 Center Graduate Research Fellow, April 16, 2019 (lecture summary)

Danielle Willard-Kyle, the 2018-2019 Center Graduate Research fellow, gave a public lecture about her month-long research at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research focusing on…
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

“Did Gender Matter During the Holocaust?” by Marion Kaplan (Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History, New York University), 2018-2019 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence, April 11, 2019 (lecture summary)

Professor Marion Kaplan, 2018-2019 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, gave the annual Shapiro Scholar public lecture on…
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

“In Search of the Drowned in the Words of the Saved: Testimonial Fragments of the Holocaust” by Gabor Toth, PhD (University of Oxford) 2018-2019 Center Postdoctoral Research Fellow, April 2, 2019 (lecture summary)

Gabor Toth, 2018-2019 Center Postdoctoral Research Fellow, gave a public lecture at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research focusing on his project to find, represent, and…
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

CENTER FOR ADVANCED GENOCIDE RESEARCH CELEBRATES FIVE YEARS OF UNIQUE ACADEMIC PROGRAMMING AND RESEARCH

On April 25, 2019, the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research celebrated the fifth anniversary of its founding. The Center was founded on April 25, 2014 as the USC Shoah…
Thursday, April 25, 2019

Oral history, testimonies of Jewish soldiers who fought in the Soviet Army during World War II added to Visual History Archive

Editor's note: Today, as part of its periodic Visual History Archive update, USC Shoah Foundation is adding 43 testimonies to the Archive. This story highlights a partnership that played a crucial…
Friday, April 19, 2019

USC Shoah Foundation launches new IWalk app

After months of beta testing with educators around the globe, USC Shoah Foundation is launching the brand new IWalk app, which offers 29 IWalks in seven countries and eight languages. Developed by…
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

“Preserving History: Armenian Voices from the Classroom to Archive” by Richard Hovannisian (Professor Emeritus of History, UCLA), March 5, 2019 (lecture summary)

On March 5, 2019, the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Richard Hovannisian, Professor…
Monday, April 8, 2019

Aprils in Sarajevo

On this day, 27 years ago, my city of Sarajevo became a besieged city, and remained such for the following four years. A seven-year old at the time, I remember those first days of April of 1992 well…
Friday, April 5, 2019