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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
Re-designed IWitness Site Brings Better, Faster, More User-Friendly Features to Students and Educators
USC Shoah Foundation today launches a redesigned IWitness website reimagined to make teaching with testimony more effective, approachable and cutting-edge.
The new site features all of the…
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Re-launch of IWitness Canada Brings Testimony to New Generation of Teachers, Students
A four-year initiative to bring together the expertise of USC Shoah Foundation and the Azrieli Foundation—Canada’s leading nationwide Holocaust education program—has culminated with the release…
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Application Open for William P. Lauder Junior Internship Program
USC Shoah Foundation is looking for 40 students across the country in 7th– 11th grades representative of diverse backgrounds and academic skills who are interested in participating in its highly…
Monday, September 20, 2021
They Started As Sixth Graders, and Graduated High School Transformed
Claire Denault’s Southern California private high school had a problem with classism. So she decided to approach the issue in a way she knew would resonate with her peers: through story.
As the…
Monday, September 20, 2021
Back to School Activities to Help Teachers Address Critical Contemporary Issues
USC Shoah Foundation today launches its 2021-2022 Back to School package, a suite of testimony-based resources on IWitness to help educators navigate the complex issues created by the Covid-19…
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Two Sides of Survival Nets Best Documentary Prize at Angeles Film Festival
The documentary Two Sides of Survival just landed Winner of Best Documentary Short at the Angeles Film Festival.
Produced by USC Shoah Foundation, Two Sides of Survival brings together…
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
It Took 50 Years For Father and Son to Tell This Story Together
On an autumn day in 1998, Joel Poremba waited in a bedroom with his wife and infant son as his father sat in his Southern California living room with an interviewer from USC Shoah Foundation. This…
Monday, August 30, 2021
The Gift of a Friendship: Saying Goodbye to Rabbi Bent Melchior
There is gratitude deep inside of grief. A feeling of, how lucky was I to have this friendship at all. That’s how I feel about my dear Rabbi Bent Melchior who passed away in Copenhagen on July 28,…
Tuesday, August 3, 2021
We Remember: Roma Holocaust Memorial Day
On August 2, 1944, nearly 3,000 Roma and Sinti women, men and children were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Seventy-one years later, the date was formally declared “Roma…
Monday, August 2, 2021
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.
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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
Two USC Students Will Share the 2021 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship
Two USC scholars – graduate student Nicholas Bredie and undergraduate student Atharva Tewari – will share the Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship for Summer 2021.
The Beth and Arthur…
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
PhD Candidate Julia Calderón Visits the Center in July
In the month of July, Julia Calderón, PhD candidate in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Los Angeles, will work with the Center as a visiting scholar and summer…
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
LGBTQ Filmmaker Puts His Faith in ‘Gifting The Story’
Actor, director, filmmaker and advocate Yuval David has a weapon of choice he employs to attract audiences and disarm would-be haters: a positive embrace of his story and a persistent belief in…
Friday, June 25, 2021
Dr. Ruth Shares Message of Strength, Inclusion with New York City Second Graders
A group of 30 second-grade children in New York City took part in a Tour for Tolerance event earlier this month that featured a virtual read-along given by famed broadcaster and Holocaust survivor Dr…
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Remembering Fritzie Fritzshall
USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of Fritzie Fritzshall, president of the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, whose story of survival and will to share it has inspired thousands…
Monday, June 21, 2021
60 Minutes segment featuring Dimensions in Testimony wins award
The Institute congratulates Lesley Stahl and her 60 Minutes team for winning a 2021 Gracie Award for their segment “Talking to the Past,” which focused on Dimensions in Testimony and featured live as…
Monday, June 21, 2021
Celebrating Juneteenth
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed legislation into law establishing June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day—a US federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.
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Friday, June 18, 2021
She Smuggled Love, Hope, and Dynamite Over the Ghetto Walls
Not long after Feigele (Vladka) Peltel’s father died of untreated pneumonia in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940, the 17-year-old found herself at a lecture about Yiddish author I.L. Peretz hosted by her…
Friday, June 11, 2021
Was Her Sister’s Life Too High A Price?
For decades, Anna (Wajcblum) Heilman struggled with the question of whether she and her sister Esther had done the right thing. If smuggling little packets of gunpowder out of the munitions factory…
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Armed With A Camera and a Gun, She Fought The Nazis
On the day that Faye Schulman’s parents and siblings were killed, along with almost all the Jews of her Eastern Polish town of Lenin, Schulman (then Faigel Lazebnik) was pulled aside by a Nazi…
Friday, June 4, 2021
“Tiny Screen Concert” is Huge Gift for Teachers, Students
USC Shoah Foundation and Mona Golabek had an end-of-school-year gift for Zoomed-out teachers: a 30-minute, all-inclusive concert/history lesson/social-emotional learning tutorial with messages about…
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Filmmakers Launch Search for WWII Testimonies Starting on Memorial Day
The Joyce D. Mandell Rescuers Collection, a new collection of testimonies about righteous diplomats turned rescuers during the Holocaust, to be showcased at USC Shoah Foundation this Fall.
The…
Tuesday, June 1, 2021