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“Talat Pasha’s Killing Orders and Denial of the Armenian Genocide” by Taner Akçam (Kaloosdian & Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies, Clark University), March 22, 2019 (lecture summary)

Professor Taner Akçam, Kaloosdian & Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University, gave a public lecture about Father Krikor Guerguerian’s Archive, a collection of thousands of…
Thursday, April 4, 2019

Head of Austrian fund for Holocaust reparations visits Institute

Hannah Lessing represents Austrian society’s desire to atone. Her unique job involves, among other things, tracking down Austrian Holocaust survivors or their kin – inside the country and out – to…
Friday, March 22, 2019

The making of a comprehensive Armenian Genocide oral history project

It started with a group of students in a Volkswagen van, traveling around Fresno with bulky tape recorders at the behest of their professor. It became the world’s largest known collection of oral…
Thursday, March 7, 2019

Armenian Genocide survivor dies at 104

In his 104 years, B. Artin Haig witnessed both the best and the worst humanity had to offer. He saw Babe Ruth play at Yankee Stadium. He photographed President Franklin Roosevelt. And he was one…
Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Nazi salutes and swastikas: How to respond to antisemitism in schools

The news about a group of teenagers throwing a Nazi salute at a party in Orange County is a startling reminder that knowledge of the Holocaust is fading. For a more empathetic society, we must…
Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Voice of America features Dimensions in Testimony

USC Shoah Foundation’s Dimensions in Testimony was featured last month in a Voice of America video segment. The piece by the U.S. government-funded broadcast site emphasized how the interactive…
Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Speaking from the grave

Domitilla remembers her father well. She was the oldest of the 10 children and has strong memories. That is before he disappeared 36 years ago during the genocide in Guatemala. Part of a large…
Monday, March 4, 2019

Lecture: Nazis used photography to conceal the truth of life in concentration camps during the Holocaust

Familiar photographs from concentration camps during World War II – the barbed-wire fences, the emaciated survivors, the piles of corpses – were mostly taken by allied forces and journalists after…
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Lukas Meissel lectures about photographic practices in Nazi concentration camps

“SS-Photographs from Concentration Camps. Perpetrator Sources and Counter-Narratives” Lukas Meissel (Ph.D. Candidate in Holocaust Studies, University of Haifa) 2018-2019 Margee and…
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Students at Worcester State University inspired by testimony of African American liberator

When Manasseh Konadu, a student at Worcester State University in Massachusetts, came to USC Shoah Foundation’s training for student leaders from across the nation to address…
Monday, February 25, 2019

Who is a Survivor?

This blog post first appeared in Echoes & Reflections. Who is a Survivor? As a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas (MSD) High School in Parkland, Florida, who survived the tragedy on…
Thursday, February 14, 2019

Butterflies Inspire Empathy and Counter Hate in Germany

The snow was falling ever so slightly, and the cold was biting and invigorating at the same time on what was otherwise a typical winter morning in a city not far from Berlin. On the side of a…
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Parkland mass shooting: One year later

“As the shooter was blasting his AR-15 into the long window on the door of our classroom, I was thinking what to say should he enter the room. I was aware I might not have been given the chance, but…
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Grandfather of USC Shoah Foundation employee is a Righteous Among the Nations honoree

By Rennie Svirnovskiy Franca Cassuto’s father had been cheated. The 14-year-old girl had only the capacity to watch as her father’s mistress turned him in to the fascists so she could pocket the…
Friday, February 8, 2019

Recent events show the importance of Armenian Genocide education

My life and my work at USC Shoah Foundation are strongly connected to the joys and the sorrows of the Armenian community. Thus, I was both shocked and heartened by recent separate events that…
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

In memory of Walter P. Loebenberg, founder of the Florida Holocaust Museum

USC Shoah Foundation is saddened by the recent loss of Walter P. Loebenberg, a friend of the Institute and a Holocaust survivor who, after finding refuge in the United States, went on to open the…
Monday, February 4, 2019

In memory of Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor Magda Weiss

USC Shoah Foundation is saddened by the loss of Holocaust survivor Magda Weiss, who died Jan. 16. She was 95. Born June 21, 1923, in Olcsva, Hungary, Weiss and her family were sent to the…
Thursday, January 31, 2019

Lecture: Women victims of sexual violence during ethnic genocides often thought of as ‘vessels for nationalism’

Immediately before a massacre of Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks, the husband of Armenian survivor Aghavnie Der Sarkissian touched her pregnant belly and urged her to keep their family…
Monday, January 28, 2019

Responding to the wolves of hate

The controversial standoff between a tribal elder and a high school student that went viral has captivated the media and those on all sides of the political aisle. While all the details are still…
Monday, January 28, 2019

Butterfly Project brings Holocaust awareness project to Germany

USC Shoah Foundation joined a classroom event in Germany on Friday in which fifth- and sixth-graders showcased their contributions to The Butterfly Project, an international effort by schoolchildren…
Friday, January 25, 2019

Virginia Bullington lectures about discussions of sexual violence in female survivor testimonies

“The Stories We Tell: Narratives of Sexual Violence and Concepts of Gender in Post-Genocide Societies” Virginia Bullington (USC undergraduate, Narrative Studies) 2018 Beth and Arthur Lev Student…
Friday, January 25, 2019

Marion Kaplan Named the 2018-2019 Shapiro Scholar in Residence

Professor Marion Kaplan, world-renowned scholar of German-Jewish history, will serve as the 2018-2019 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced…
Friday, January 25, 2019

Swedish History Museum becomes first European museum to exhibit Dimensions in Testimony

Dimensions in Testimony made its debut in a European museum at a ceremony on Thursday, when the Swedish History Museum launched “Speaking Memories, The Last Witnesses of the Holocaust,” an exhibit by…
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Documentary film chronicles a Jewish group’s dangerous mission to collect evidence of Nazi atrocities in Warsaw Ghetto

Some of the Jews who resisted the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto famously took up arms. Emanuel Ringelblum secretly collected documents. “Who Will Write Our History,” a newly released documentary…
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Call for Applications: Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship Summer 2019

Call for Applications Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship Summer 2019 The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide…
Thursday, January 17, 2019

USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education Join Forces to Empower Students to Counter Hate Offering $10,000 in Scholarships and Prizes with ‘Stronger Than Hate Challenge’

Silver Spring, Md. (Wednesday, January 16, 2019) – In an effort to spark a social movement against hatred in all forms, USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education, the leading provider of…
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Holocaust Museum Houston opens award-winning ‘Dimensions in Testimony’ exhibit featuring Houston-area Holocaust Survivor William J. Morgan

HOUSTON (Jan. 11, 2019) -- Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) today opened USC Shoah Foundation’s Dimensions in Testimony exhibition, featuring Houston-area Holocaust survivor William…
Friday, January 11, 2019

Holocaust survivor celebrates major milestone

We at USC Shoah Foundation are wishing a happy birthday to Charlotte McKern, who was among the roughly 20,000 Jews from Germany and Austria who survived the Holocaust by taking refuge in Shanghai,…
Thursday, January 10, 2019

Partnership will expand the reach of Institute’s educational materials on Armenian Genocide

USC Shoah Foundation is joining forces with an organization that is dedicated to bringing curriculum about the World War I-era Armenian Genocide into high schools across the United States. The…
Tuesday, January 8, 2019

IWitness Spotlight: Schindler’s List

The Stronger Than Hate initiative is publishing stories on a regular basis that will each highlight a separate learning activity or theme in IWitness, tackling some of today’s toughest subjects for…
Thursday, January 3, 2019