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New Partnership to Develop Holocaust Education Programming for Medical Community

USC Shoah Foundation and the Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust are partnering to develop new and innovative educational programing on medical ethics and the Holocaust. …
Friday, July 30, 2021

Survivor Suzy Ressler Found Success with Old World Recipes and Charm

Suzy Ressler, a survivor of Auschwitz who parlayed her family’s old-world recipes into the Philadelphia-based Mrs. Ressler’s Food Products, died July 3, 2021, at the age of 93. She was remembered…
Monday, July 26, 2021

Iraqi Survivor Ruth Pearl, 85, Fostered Harmony and Understanding in Memory of Son Daniel Pearl

USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of Ruth Pearl, mother of slain Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl and co-founder and CFO of The Daniel Pearl Foundation, which promotes cross…
Thursday, July 22, 2021

After a School Year of Turmoil, a Summer of Empathy

Carson Sizemore is already bracing for the tough conversations she will have in her 10th grade government class at her private high school in Albany, a small city on the banks of the Flint River in…
Friday, July 16, 2021

Hungarian Speaking Graduates of Teaching with Testimony Program Celebrate Milestone Anniversary

Graduates of the Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century professional development program came together last month to celebrate the program's 10th anniversary in Hungary. The event took place…
Friday, July 16, 2021

Call for Papers: Knowledge on the Move: Information Networks During and After the Holocaust

Call for Papers International Workshop Knowledge on the Move: Information Networks During and After the Holocaust April…
Monday, July 12, 2021

Rwandan Rescuers and Those They Rescued Recall Trauma and Triumph

On July 4, 1994, Paul Rukesha was convinced the sun was shining differently than it had the day before. Rukesha, then 16, had spent the previous three months eluding soldiers, militias, and Hutu…
Friday, July 2, 2021

At 14, She Searched for Refuge Along Bloodied Roads

Theogene Kayitakire, a sergeant in the Rwandan Patriotic Army, helped capture the strategic high ground of the Mount Rebero neighborhood in Kigali in April 1994, just days after the Genocide Against…
Friday, July 2, 2021