News By Year
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
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
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