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2021 Lev Student Research Fellows Share Their Research With Testimonies
"Research With Testimonies: Featuring the Center's 2021 Lev Student Research Fellows”
Nicholas Bredie (USC PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing) and Atharva Tewari (USC undergraduate…
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Flight Decisions
As a novelist, I am fascinated by decisions. Choice, real or imagined, is what separates tragedy from mythology. Decisions, always made with incomplete understanding, shape the arc of lives and…
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Survivors of 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda Gather in Salt Lake City
Hundreds of survivors of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsi congregated in Salt Lake City over the weekend for the largest-ever international gathering of survivors.
Organizers say the…
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
IWalk Mobile App Named Finalist for 2022 EdTech Awards
USC Shoah Foundation’s interactive IWalk mobile app has been named a finalist in the Cool Tool Mobile App Solution category in the 2022 EdTech Awards, the world's largest recognition program for…
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
A New Generation Embraces Music the Nazis Tried to Stifle
Alexa Dollar flings open her arms and spins across the stage, relishing the moment as if she’s just arrived at a party thrown in her honor. She kicks out her leg and flutters back across the floor,…
Monday, May 23, 2022
With Music and Poetry, Herbert Zipper Reached for Humanity in Dachau
Herbert Zipper, a world-renowned conductor, composer and pioneer of the community arts movement in the United States, grew up in a Vienna of extremes: From his birth in 1904 until he fled in 1939,…
Monday, May 23, 2022
Stronger than Hate: Our Response to the Buffalo Mass Shooting
We mourn the loss of ten innocent lives in yet another mass shooting fueled by hate, this time at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
According to authorities, the 18-year-old alleged shooter…
Monday, May 16, 2022
Junior Interns Program Concludes with Address from Jewish Survivor Dr. Elena Nightingale
The 2021-2022 William P. Lauder Junior Interns program wrapped up last month with special guest Jewish Holocaust survivor Dr. Elena Nightingale calling on participants to speak up when confronted by…
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Ruth: A Little Girl’s Big Journey Nets Atlanta Jewish Film Festival Audience Award
An animated short film that brings to life the remarkable childhood journey of media personality, author and Holocaust survivor Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer netted one of the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s…
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
California Armenian Genocide Martyrs Monument Added to IWalk App
USC Shoah Foundation has added a tour of the Armenian Genocide Martyrs Monument in Montebello, California to its IWalk mobile application, making it the first Armenian Genocide site of memory to be…
Monday, May 9, 2022
Hidden in the Archive: An Unknown Leaflet from a Jewish Aid Organization in 1948
In the Special Collections at the University of Southern California Libraries there is a book – large, heavy, and musty, it contains the names of thousands of Holocaust survivors who lived in the…
Friday, May 6, 2022
White House Screens The Survivor Film During Holocaust Remembrance Week Observances
USC Shoah Foundation last week joined President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden for a screening of HBO’s new Holocaust film The Survivor—the first official showing of a film in the White House…
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
An Interview with Institute Curator Crispin Brooks
USC Shoah Foundation worked closely with The Survivor team to bring the important film to the screen and received a production credit. Assistance included providing access to Haft’s and other…
Wednesday, May 4, 2022