News By Year and Month

New Partnership with National Center for Families Learning Explores ‘What Inspires You?’

The Willesden Project, a partnership program of USC Shoah Foundation and Hold On To Your Music, today announced a new collaboration with the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL) to promote…
Friday, October 29, 2021

Echoes & Reflections Invites Educators, Students to Commemorate Kristallnacht

November 9 and 10 marks the anniversary of the 1938 Kristallnacht (“The Night of Broken Glass”) pogrom, the first major public and government-sanctioned display of antisemitic violence against…
Friday, October 29, 2021

Pittsburgh: "For Me, It’s Never Over"

Over the past six years, USC Shoah Foundation has documented the stories of experts and witnesses to contemporary antisemitism as part of our Countering Antisemitism Through Testimony Program (CATT)…
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education Award $10,000 to 2021 Stronger Than Hate Challenge Winners

USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education (USC Shoah Foundation), and Discovery Education today announced the winners of the 2021 Stronger Than Hate Challenge. The 2021…
Monday, October 18, 2021

Prime Minister Stefan Löfvén Helps Premiere Dimensions in Testimony in Swedish at Malmö Forum

The Swedish version of USC Shoah Foundation’s Dimensions in Testimony installation was presented in Malmö at the International Forum On Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism. Swedish Prime…
Thursday, October 14, 2021

Dr. Justin Elliot Begins His Residency at USC Shoah Foundation

USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to welcome its postdoctoral research fellow, Dr. Justin Elliot, who will be in residence at the Institute for a couple of years. In addition to his residency at…
Thursday, October 14, 2021

A Search For Family Leads to a ‘Bittersweet Revelation’

When Deborah Long was a teenager, she often came home to find her mother sitting with the latest issues of Life or Look magazine, quietly tearing out pages. “You see this picture?” her mother…
Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Remembering Eddie Jaku

USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of our friend and partner Eddie Jaku, who has passed away in Sydney, Australia, at age 101. Eddie will be remembered for his extraordinary life—which included…
Wednesday, October 13, 2021

USC Shoah Foundation Applauds Creation of California Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education

USC Shoah Foundation welcomes the creation of California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education. USC Shoah Foundation Finci-Viterbi Executive Director Stephen Smith,…
Wednesday, October 6, 2021

USC Shoah Foundation approaches 30 years and begins a leadership transition

As USC Shoah Foundation—The Institute for Visual History and Education approaches the close of its third decade, it also nears a bittersweet transition: Executive Director Stephen D. Smith will step…
Wednesday, October 6, 2021

He Fought the Nazis, Survived the Communists, and Just Celebrated his 100th Birthday—in Brooklyn

Until he retired from the Soviet Red Army in 1967, Leonid Rozenberg carried the banner at the head of the semi-annual military parade in the city of Lugansk, in what is now Ukraine, with hundreds of…
Tuesday, October 5, 2021

On this Date in History: The Rwandan Patriotic Army Invades Rwanda

Today, October 1st, marks the day in 1990 that Rwandan Patriotic Front troops crossed into Rwanda from neighboring Uganda and the beginning of a sequence of events that culminated in the 1994…
Friday, October 1, 2021