News By Year and Month

First Willesden Project Fellow Developing Virtual IWalks Related to Refugee Experiences

How best to fuse compelling testimony with the latest innovative technologies to produce the most effective instructional materials for students and educators around the world? That’s the…
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Remembering Vera Gissing

USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of our friend Vera Gissing, who died March 12 in Berkshire, England at age 93. Vera will be remembered for her extraordinary life, which included escaping…
Friday, March 25, 2022

Last Chance Testimony Collection: A Return to In-Person Interviews Planned for Spring

USC Shoah Foundation continues to record interviews with Holocaust survivors as part of the Last Chance Testimony Collection initiative, an urgent effort to give voice to survivors and witnesses of…
Friday, March 25, 2022

New Partnership Brings Survivor Voices to Hearts and Homes

Alan Rose was repeating himself. He was stuck in a particularly difficult part of his story about being deported from a labor camp to Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Josh Turnil and the guests he had…
Thursday, March 24, 2022

Thousands of Georgia Students Participate in Willesden Lane Education Event

More than 18,000 students and 250 teachers from school districts across Georgia last week experienced famed pianist Mona Golabek's livestreamed performance adapted from her acclaimed book, The…
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

USC Shoah Foundation Mourns the Passing of Survivor, Educator and Friend Helen Fagin

USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of our friend Helen Fagin, who has passed away in Sarasota, Florida at age 104. A Holocaust survivor, English professor and director of Judaic Studies at…
Friday, March 18, 2022

Application Open for Leadership Workshop – Action and Values, presented by the William P. Lauder Junior Internship Program this Summer

USC Shoah Foundation is now accepting applications for rising 8th–12th grade students across the country to participate in its highly competitive week-long summer program, Leadership Workshop –…
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

A Tribute to Sigmund Burke, 1924-2022

USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of Holocaust survivor and accomplished structural engineer Sigmund Burke, who died February 6, 2022 at nearly 98 years old. He recorded his testimony with USC…
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

The Starling Lab for Data Integrity Announces Inaugural Starling Journalism Fellows

The Starling Lab for Data Integrity (Starling Lab) today announced its inaugural class of Starling Journalism research fellows. The annual fellowship helps leading journalists from around the world…
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

“Once We Repel the Aggressors, We Will Get Back to Work,” USC Shoah Foundation Partner Anna Lenchovska, in Ukraine

Two weeks into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, USC Shoah Foundation is extremely concerned for its partners, survivors and friends in both countries and strongly condemns the senseless loss of life. …
Thursday, March 10, 2022

International Women's Day

Today is International Women’s Day and this year we are honoring girls—from Holocaust Europe to Africa, from Central America to the Middle East, from occupied China to pre-war Armenia—who…
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Attack on Ukraine Summons Haunting Echoes of the Past

Above, Alex Redner with his grandparents in 1937 in Lvov As the world watches in horror as millions of Ukrainians resist, take shelter or flee from Russian attacks, news reports stir up…
Monday, March 7, 2022

Lorena Sekwan Fontaine Lectures About Linguistic and Cultural Genocide and Redress in Canada

“Redress for Linguistic Genocide in Canada” Lorena Sekwan Fontaine (University of Winnipeg/San Diego State University) February 17, 2022 For the first lecture in its series of spring…
Friday, March 4, 2022