News By Year and Month
Mickey Shapiro Provides Major Gift to Endow Inaugural Academic Chair
Longtime USC Shoah Foundation Executive Committee and Board of Councilors member Mickey Shapiro has provided a major endowed gift to create an inaugural academic chair at the Institute that will be…
Monday, November 29, 2021
Release of “Let Them Speak / In Search of the Drowned,” an innovative digital anthology of testimonies and hybrid monograph
In 2018, under the initiative of the Yale Library’s Fortunoff Video Archive, three leading institutions holding large collections of Holocaust testimonies agreed to make a portion of their materials…
Monday, November 22, 2021
USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education Announce UK Winners of Stronger Than Hate Challenge
USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education have announced the winners of the United Kingdom category of the 2021 international Stronger Than Hate Challenge
First prize in the challenge was…
Monday, November 22, 2021
New Cohort of William P. Lauder Junior Interns Begins 2021-2022 Program
A cohort of forty-one new students and five returning Junior Intern Emissaries convened virtually on November 14 for the first session of the 2021-2022 William P. Lauder Junior Internship Program.
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Friday, November 19, 2021
Call for Applications: 2022-2023 PhD Candidate Fellowships
Call for Applications from PhD Candidates
Greenberg Research Fellowship
Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies
Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship
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Friday, November 12, 2021
Nancy Fisher Reflects on 25 years of Conducting Holocaust Survivor Interviews
On November 7th 1996, Nancy Fisher, a bundle of nerves, knocked on the door of Erika Gold’s home in Leonia, New Jersey. She was there on behalf of the Shoah Foundation to interview Erika, a Holocaust…
Thursday, November 11, 2021
The Willesden Project to Share Music-as-Healing Tools with Classroom Educators
As the Covid 19 pandemic requires educators to provide their students with new and unprecedented levels of social emotional support, The Willesden Project, a partnership of USC Shoah Foundation and…
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Ceci Chan Wanted to Reduce Racism, Hatred, and Violence. So She Focused on the Holocaust.
It was really just a coincidence that in her efforts to reduce racism, hatred, and violence, some of Ceci Chan’s earliest work with USC Shoah Foundation involved the Nanjing Massacre.
Chan, a…
Thursday, November 4, 2021
Armenian-Language Resources Inspire Students, Connect Families
Women and children of Kharpert at the banks of the Euphrates in Der Zor on their forced march to Baghdad. The image and story is used in “Politics and Place,” an activity that explores how political…
Tuesday, November 2, 2021