News By Year and Month

USC Shoah Foundation Partners with Armenian Genocide Museum

USC Shoah Foundation and the Armenian Genocide Museum Institute Foundation (AGMI) in Yerevan have launched a new partnership to develop programming to extend the reach of their collections, research…
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

New Guides to Countering Antisemitism Added to Nickelodeon Anti-Hate Series

USC Shoah Foundation and partners Nickelodeon and The Conscious Kid today launch a pair of Talk and Take Action: Guides to Countering Antisemitism that provide teachers and parents with content and…
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Dimensions in Testimony Reaches Milestone of 50 Interactive Interviews

In February 2012 Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter sat down inside a light stage surrounded by 50 cameras and 6,000 LED bulbs to give his testimony to the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History…
Monday, December 20, 2021

Remembering those we lost in 2021

The Institute mourns the passing of members of our community in 2021, including survivors who have given testimony Julio Botton, Fritzie Fritzshall, Eddie Jaku, Roman Kent, Rabbi Bent Melchior, Ruth…
Friday, December 17, 2021

2021 Year in Review

Gustava and Joseph Poremba with their five children, Sala, Nathan, Fela, Esta and Tala, in Wieliczka, Poland in 1931. Only the two youngest, Nathan and Fela, survived the Holocaust. Read the story…
Thursday, December 16, 2021

Partnership with The Conscious Kid Producing Resources to Counter Antisemitism, Other Bias

USC Shoah Foundation and The Conscious Kid are partnering to develop and implement a series of grade K-5 resources and education initiatives to counter antisemitism and raise awareness to appreciate…
Monday, December 13, 2021

USC Shoah Foundation, The Willesden Project Launch Music Dreams Animated Short

USC Shoah Foundation and The Willesden Project today launch the premiere of Music Dreams, an animated short film story telling the story of Lisa Jura, a young Holocaust survivor who in 1938 escaped…
Friday, December 10, 2021

The Willesden Project commemorates Kindertransport and hails courage of refugees with virtual field trip

It was 83 years ago this week that 13-year-old Lisa Jura boarded a Kindertransport train from Vienna to London, the first step in a journey that would be memorably depicted by her daughter Mona…
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

New Animated Film for Young Students Explores Refugee Displacement and the Power of Music to Inspire Hope, Healing

Today marks the 83rd anniversary of the arrival of the first Kindertransport to the United Kingdom. This rescue operation saved 10,000 child refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe. As part of the…
Thursday, December 2, 2021

Dr. Johanna Braun Visits the Center to Research the Early History of Vienna’s Ties with Hollywood

Dr. Johanna Braun, a researcher with the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and lecturer in the Department of Art and Education at the Academy of…
Wednesday, December 1, 2021