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UC Berkeley Linguist Awarded $470K Grant to Analyze Yiddish-Language Testimonies in Visual History Archive

A University of California linguist has been awarded a $470,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to analyze Yiddish-language testimonies contained in USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History…
Thursday, July 28, 2022

USC Shoah Foundation 2022 Summer Leadership Workshop Welcomes Students Back to Campus

For the first time in two years, USC Shoah Foundation welcomed students to its international headquarters at USC for the fifth annual Leadership Workshop-Action and Values. Eighteen rising…
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Friend and Educator Pinchas Gutter Turns 90

Our longtime friend Pinchas Gutter turns 90 today! The survivor of six German Nazi concentration camps has shared his remarkable story with USC Shoah Foundation in a variety of formats over the…
Thursday, July 21, 2022

Dimensions in Testimony Interview with Max Eisen Added to IWitness

Holocaust survivor and USC Shoah Foundation friend Max Eisen passed away earlier this month, leaving a unique legacy forged by harrowing wartime experiences, 20 return trips to Auschwitz-Birkenau as…
Thursday, July 14, 2022

July 11 Commemorates Srebrenica Genocide Day

July 11 marks 26 years since the Srebrenica genocide, the biggest in a cluster of massacres that occurred as part of the campaign of ethnic cleansing in eastern parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina during…
Monday, July 11, 2022

USC Shoah Foundation and the Museum of Jewish Heritage to Host New York Premiere of Strand Releasing’s My Name Is Sara

USC Shoah Foundation and the Museum of Jewish Heritage are joining forces on July 12 to host the official New York City premiere of My Name Is Sara, a feature film based on the true story…
Friday, July 8, 2022

We Mourn Max Eisen

USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of our friend Max Eisen, a Holocaust survivor who returned to Auschwitz-Birkenau more than 20 times as an educator and testified at the trials of two SS guards…
Thursday, July 7, 2022

Ryan Cheuk Him Sun Awarded 2022-2023 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship

Ryan Cheuk Him Sun, a PhD candidate in History at the University of British Columbia, Canada, has been awarded the 2022-2023 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship at the USC Dornsife…
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Carli Snyder Awarded 2022-2023 USC Shoah Foundation Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies

Carli Snyder, a PhD candidate in History at the City University of New York (CUNY), has been awarded the 2022-2023 USC Shoah Foundation USC Shoah Foundation Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in…
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Raíssa Alonso Awarded 2022-2023 Greenberg Research Fellowship

Raíssa Alonso, a PhD candidate in Social History at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, has been awarded the 2022-2023 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellowship at the USC Dornsife Center for…
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

July 4 is Rwanda Liberation Day

July 4 is Kwibohora, also known as Rwanda Liberation Day. On this day in 1994 the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) secured the capital of Kigali and ended the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda…
Monday, July 4, 2022