News By Year and Month

We Remember Karen Wells

We lost a giant in the fight against hate yesterday - Karen Wells, educator from Midland High School in Pleasant Plains, Arkansas, Discovery Education DEN leader, and IWitness Master Educator and…
Monday, March 22, 2021

Stronger than Hate: Our Response to Racism and the Atlanta-Area Spa Killings

Today we mourn the murder of eight people in Georgia that includes six Asian women — and we are appalled by the increased acts of anti-Asian hate and violence across the United States&nbsp…
Friday, March 19, 2021

Sara Horowitz Named 2020-2021 Shapiro Scholar in Residence

Sara R. Horowitz, Professor of Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies at York University and an esteemed scholar of the Holocaust, has been named the 2020-2021 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in…
Thursday, March 18, 2021

We Remember Julio Botton

USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of Holocaust survivor and friend of the Institute, Julio Botton. Julio first recorded a testimony for the Visual History Archive in 1998 and in March 2020…
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

We Remember Marcus Segal

On Monday I received a voicemail from Suzan Trevor that her father Marcus Segal had passed away. I had only just met Marcus, albeit virtually, weeks before when he shared his testimony with USC Shoah…
Thursday, March 11, 2021