News By Year

Cambodian Genocide: 45 Years Later

Forty-five years ago to the day, a communist regime known as the Khmer Rouge conquered the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. The occupation set in motion a four-year campaign of genocide that…
Monday, April 6, 2020

Shapiro Scholar Peter Hayes lectures about the Holocaust at its peak

“Makeshift Murder: The Holocaust at Its Peak” Peter Hayes (Northwestern University) 2019-2020 Shapiro Scholar in Residence March 5, 2020 On March 5, 2020, Professor Peter Hayes,…
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Maël Le Noc lectures about Holocaust survivors' spatial experiences in Paris

“Geographies of Persecution in Occupied Paris: Place and Space in Survivors' Testimonies” Maël Le Noc (PhD Candidate in Geography, Texas State University) 2019-2020 Margee and Douglas…
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

What testimonies teach us: Reflections from 2019-2020 Shapiro Scholar Peter Hayes

I much enjoyed my stay at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research in early March, just before the pandemic turned all of our lives upside down. Meeting the wonderful members of…
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

“People were dying like flies”: A reflection on COVID-19 and epidemics during the Holocaust

Only a day after the University of Southern California announced that it would conduct a three-day test to move all classes online, which soon turned into a permanent arrangement until the end of…
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

In memory of Holocaust Survivor Anneliese Nossbaum

USC Shoah foundation is saddened to learn of the recent passing of Anneliese Nossbaum, who survived a Jewish ghetto and three concentration camps. Anneliese passed away March 23, 2020 after…
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

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

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Staff Visit the Institute

(L to R) Dr. Claudia Wiedeman, USC Shoah Foundation (USC SF) Director of Education; Anna Stańczyk, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (ABSM) Educators Coordinator; Monika Koszyńska, USC SF Regional…
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Kirk Douglas, film legend and 2008 USC Shoah Foundation Ambassador for Humanity, passes away at 103

USC Shoah Foundation joins the Hollywood community and people worldwide in mourning the loss of Kirk Douglas, who passed away earlier this week at age 103. Douglas was an acting legend and an icon of…
Thursday, February 6, 2020

USC Shoah Foundation Partners with Hold On To Your Music to Create Groundbreaking Resources in Holocaust Education with $10 Million Koret Foundation Grant

USC Shoah Foundation —The Institute for Visual History and Education (USC Shoah Foundation) today announced a $10 million grant from the Koret Foundation to develop and implement a new global…
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Peter Hayes Named the 2019-2020 Shapiro Scholar in residence

Professor Peter Hayes, world-renowned scholar of the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, will serve as the 2019-2020 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence at the USC Shoah Foundation…
Monday, February 3, 2020

Call for Applications: Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship Summer 2020

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites research proposals from USC undergraduate students and USC graduate students for the 2020 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research…
Friday, January 31, 2020

Bodies and the Memory of Emotions in Testimony

During my dissertation research on the history of fear in the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933, a Corrie ten Boom fellowship provided the opportunity for me to visit the USC Shoah Foundation to explore the…
Thursday, January 30, 2020

In Memory of Holocaust survivor Hanna Pankowsky

Today we mourn the loss of Hanna Pankowsky, a remarkable woman who gave us her testimony and was one of the subjects in a portrait series of Holocaust survivors painted by David Kassan. Hanna…
Thursday, January 23, 2020