News By Year and Month

Dario Gabbai, Auschwitz Sonderkommando survivor, dies at 97

The portrait I have been working on of Dario isn’t complete yet, but what an honor it was to have met him and is now to engage with his testimony through the act of painting,” said David Kassan of…
Friday, March 27, 2020

COVID-19: IWitness Provides Digital Resources for Educators and Families for Virtual Learning

As local communities assess and adjust to the needs of the world community—and as many schools shift from in-person to virtual classrooms—IWitness and its standards-aligned resources are…
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

USC Shoah Foundation Begins Beta Testing of the First German Language Dimensions in Testimony at Deutsches Technikmuseum

USC Shoah Foundation in collaboration with Deutsches Technikmuseum (German Museum of Technology) began the beta testing phase of the first German language exhibit of the Dimensions in Testimony…
Monday, March 9, 2020

Remembering Éva Székely who passed away at 92

The Institute is sad to learn that world champion swimmer and Holocaust survivor Éva Székely passed away at 92. Born in 1927 in Budapest, Hungary, Éva Székely excelled early as a swimmer, winning…
Sunday, March 8, 2020

Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer lecture about school photos in concentrationary sites

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research hosted professors Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) and Leo Spitzer (Dartmouth College), who gave a lecture based on their recently…
Friday, March 6, 2020

Volume of poetry inspired by testimony will be published in September 2020

From the Annals of Krakow, a sequence of poems by Piotr Florczyk that was inspired by testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual Archive, will be published in September 2020 by Lynx House Press…
Friday, March 6, 2020

Ioanida Costache lectures about cultivation and transmission of Romani memories of the Holocaust through music

Ioanida Costache, the Center’s 2019-2020 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow, gave a public lecture about the monthlong research she conducted in the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History…
Friday, March 6, 2020