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Testimonies and the Socioeconomic Aspects of the Armenian Genocide: Reflections from 2019-2020 Junior Postdoctoral Research Fellow Mehmet Polatel

As a postdoctoral research fellow at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research in the 2019-2020 academic year, I carried out a research project focusing on the long-term impact…
Monday, August 31, 2020

Beyond words: Reflections from 2020 Lev Student Research Fellow Rachel Zaretsky

I had the opportunity to research the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive this past summer thanks to the Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship. I was initially introduced to the…
Monday, August 31, 2020

USC Shoah Foundation, National Historical Museums in Sweden, and the Institution for Jewish Culture in Sweden Begin Filming Socially Distant Swedish-Language Dimensions in Testimony Interviews

USC Shoah Foundation—working with on-site partners National Historical Museums in Sweden and the Institution for Jewish Culture in Sweden—recently began filming two Swedish-language Dimensions in…
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Institute Announces New Partnership with Ancestry® to Provide Free Access to Searchable Data from Nearly 50,000 Jewish Holocaust Survivor Testimonies

USC Shoah Foundation announced a new partnership with Ancestry® to provide free access to searchable data from nearly 50,000 Jewish Holocaust survivor testimonies that are in the Visual History…
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Voices of Rohingya – Today We Remember

“I saw the military shoot my friend…” Shafika Begum Three years ago today, August 25, 2017, the Myanmar army coordinated and implemented a genocidal attack on Rohingya communities and…
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Archival Ingenuity Saves Mold-Ridden Testimonies from Oblivion

Alan Auyeung pulled on a pair of latex gloves and a N95 face mask. For good measure, he placed a pair of protective goggles over his eyes too. A trip to the supermarket? In these Covid-19 times, it…
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Women's resistance in Nanjing: Reflections from 2020 Lev Student Research Fellow Lucy Sun

From visiting family in China during summer breaks growing up, I became acutely aware of the devastation and suffering that occurred during the Japanese occupation of our hometown of Nanjing. Museums…
Monday, August 10, 2020

Mila Page Turns 100! She and Husband Paul Introduced Thomas Kenneally to the story of Oskar Schindler

We join a worldwide community to celebrate the recent 100th birthday of Ludmila Page, a Holocaust survivor who helped bring the story of Oskar Schindler to light together with her late husband Paul …
Friday, July 24, 2020

Inaugural Interviewer Collection Named and Endowed in honor of Anne Bernard longtime Institute Interviewer

“It is an awesome responsibility to sit across from a survivor and earn their trust so that they can describe intimate patterns of their former life to you,” said Anne Bernard of her experiences…
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

International Conference Moves Online to Commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide

This past Saturday marked twenty-five years since the Srebrenica genocide, the biggest in a cluster of massacres that occurred as part of the campaign of “ethnic cleansing” in eastern parts of Bosnia…
Monday, July 13, 2020

Stop calling it anti-Semitism. It’s Jew hatred.

Read our executive director's opinion in the Forward.
Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Chad Gibbs Awarded 2020-2021 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship

Chad Gibbs, a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, has been awarded the 2020-2021 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship at the USC Shoah…
Monday, July 6, 2020

Lauren Cantillon Awarded 2020-2021 Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies

Lauren Cantillon, a PhD candidate in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College, London, has been awarded the 2020-2021 Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide…
Monday, July 6, 2020

Florian Zabransky Awarded 2020-2021 Greenberg Research Fellowship

Florian Zabranksy, a PhD candidate at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom, has been awarded the 2020-2021 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research…
Monday, July 6, 2020

Preserving Memory in Russian: The Life and Work of Ilia Salita

This week, we pay tribute to the life and work of Ilia Salita, a key partner and friend to the Institute of many years. In his role as President and CEO of Genesis Philanthropy Group, Ilia Salita…
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

USC Shoah Foundation and Liberation75 partner with Mike Myers on “Stories are Stronger than Hate: A Call to Action” Student Program

Liberation75 and USC Shoah Foundation partnered on a virtual student program, “Stories are Stronger than Hate: A Call to Action,” hosted by actor/director Mike Myers, with special guest Akim Aliu, Co…
Monday, June 29, 2020

This Juneteenth, Stronger Than Hate resources on IWitness

June 19, also known as Juneteenth, commemorates the day in 1865 when slavery ended in America - more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln. It is a day of…
Friday, June 19, 2020

USC Shoah Foundation Mourns the Passing of Filmmaker and Friend Luke Holland

USC Shoah Foundation mourns the loss of Luke Holland who passed away this week, a transformative figure in the field of historical documentation and a dear friend of the Institute. “Luke guided us…
Friday, June 12, 2020

Two USC Students Will Share the 2020 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship

Two promising USC scholars – undergraduate student Lucy Sun and graduate student Rachel Zaretsky -- will share the Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship for Summer 2020. The Beth and…
Monday, June 8, 2020

Countering Racism: Solidarity for Peaceful Change

We mourn the murder of George Floyd and join the outcry for justice in his name. He is now linked to countless others who have suffered systemic violence, injustice and hate perpetrated against…
Monday, June 1, 2020

Cornell University Library Acquires Permanent Access to Visual History Archive

The ties between Cornell University and USC Shoah Foundation are many, and now, they are permanent: The Cornell University Library has acquired access to the Visual History Archive in perpetuity…
Thursday, May 21, 2020

USC Shoah Foundation Commends Congress on Passage of Holocaust Education Bill

Visit Echoes & Reflections for comprehensive programming and resources about the Holocaust especially designed for educators so they can gain the skills, knowledge, and confidence to teach this…
Thursday, May 14, 2020

Passing of Joseph Feingold Demonstrates Urgent Need for “Last Chance Testimony”

Joseph Feingold was 17 years old when he and his father, Aron, fled the Nazi invasion of Poland. Fleeing east, the duo were apprehended by the Soviet military and subsequently spent six years in the…
Thursday, May 7, 2020

COVID-19 Presents Extreme Risk to Holocaust Survivor Community and World War II Veterans

The elderly population is among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the victims include a large and growing number of Holocaust survivors and World War II veterans. Over the last weeks,…
Thursday, May 7, 2020

Educators Find Online Expertise and Content in IWitness

Mona Golabek folds her arms and smashes them down across the piano, bringing to a cacophonous halt Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor – the piece her mother had dreamt of playing in a Vienna concert…
Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Videóinterjúk a 21. század oktatásában 2020

Videóinterjúk a 21. század oktatásában 2020 A Dél-Kaliforniai Egyetem (USC) Soá Alapítvány nemzetközi oktatási programja Magyarországon MOST jelentkezhet a magyarországi program kilencedik…
Thursday, April 23, 2020

National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Becomes Visual History Archive Full Access Site

The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) will feature full access to the public of the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive (VHA) of over 54,000 testimonies. One of…
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Mehmet Polatel Lectures about the Relationship between the Hamidian Massacres and the Armenian Genocide

“Continuity, Escalation, and Local Actors: The Hamidian Massacres and the Armenian Genocide” Mehmet Polatel 2019-2020 Center Junior Postdoctoral Research Fellow April 13,…
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

In Panama, Six Days for the Six Million

Panama’s Jewish community is commemorating Yom HaShoah virtually this year with a week-long series of thematic Instagram posts that will integrate clips from USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History…
Monday, April 20, 2020

Spring Release adds Tutsi, Rohingya, and "Last Chance" Testimonies

Above: Holocaust survivor Elly Gotz who gave his testimony to the Azrieli Foundation in 2018. His interview is one of 31 new testimonies from the Azrieli Foundation that have been indexed and…
Thursday, April 9, 2020