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Two USC Students Will Share the 2021 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship

Two USC scholars – graduate student Nicholas Bredie and undergraduate student Atharva Tewari – will share the Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship for Summer 2021. The Beth and Arthur…
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

PhD Candidate Julia Calderón Visits the Center in July

In the month of July, Julia Calderón, PhD candidate in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Los Angeles, will work with the Center as a visiting scholar and summer…
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

LGBTQ Filmmaker Puts His Faith in ‘Gifting The Story’

Actor, director, filmmaker and advocate Yuval David has a weapon of choice he employs to attract audiences and disarm would-be haters: a positive embrace of his story and a persistent belief in…
Friday, June 25, 2021

Dr. Ruth Shares Message of Strength, Inclusion with New York City Second Graders

A group of 30 second-grade children in New York City took part in a Tour for Tolerance event earlier this month that featured a virtual read-along given by famed broadcaster and Holocaust survivor Dr…
Thursday, June 24, 2021

Remembering Fritzie Fritzshall

USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of Fritzie Fritzshall, president of the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, whose story of survival and will to share it has inspired thousands…
Monday, June 21, 2021

60 Minutes segment featuring Dimensions in Testimony wins award

The Institute congratulates Lesley Stahl and her 60 Minutes team for winning a 2021 Gracie Award for their segment “Talking to the Past,” which focused on Dimensions in Testimony and featured live as…
Monday, June 21, 2021

Celebrating Juneteenth

President Joe Biden on Thursday signed legislation into law establishing June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day—a US federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. …
Friday, June 18, 2021

She Smuggled Love, Hope, and Dynamite Over the Ghetto Walls

Not long after Feigele (Vladka) Peltel’s father died of untreated pneumonia in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940, the 17-year-old found herself at a lecture about Yiddish author I.L. Peretz hosted by her…
Friday, June 11, 2021

Was Her Sister’s Life Too High A Price?

For decades, Anna (Wajcblum) Heilman struggled with the question of whether she and her sister Esther had done the right thing. If smuggling little packets of gunpowder out of the munitions factory…
Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Armed With A Camera and a Gun, She Fought The Nazis

On the day that Faye Schulman’s parents and siblings were killed, along with almost all the Jews of her Eastern Polish town of Lenin, Schulman (then Faigel Lazebnik) was pulled aside by a Nazi…
Friday, June 4, 2021

“Tiny Screen Concert” is Huge Gift for Teachers, Students

USC Shoah Foundation and Mona Golabek had an end-of-school-year gift for Zoomed-out teachers: a 30-minute, all-inclusive concert/history lesson/social-emotional learning tutorial with messages about…
Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Filmmakers Launch Search for WWII Testimonies Starting on Memorial Day

The Joyce D. Mandell Rescuers Collection, a new collection of testimonies about righteous diplomats turned rescuers during the Holocaust, to be showcased at USC Shoah Foundation this Fall. The…
Tuesday, June 1, 2021