News By Year and Month
We Mourn Phillip Maisel, the “Keeper of Miracles”
USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of our friend Phillip Maisel, who died in Melbourne, Australia on August 22 just days after celebrating his 100th birthday.
Born in Vilnus (now Lithuania)…
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
USC Student Leaders Encouraged to Apply for Stronger Than Hate Leadership Summit
USC Shoah Foundation is accepting applications for USC student leaders to take part in the upcoming Stronger Than Hate Student Leadership Summit.
Triggered by the deadly white nationalist rally of…
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
USC Shoah Foundation Conducts Polish-language Interactive Biography with Marian Turski
Inside a Warsaw light stage surrounded by nine cameras, prominent historian and journalist Marian Turski in late June completed the first ever Polish-language interactive biography.
Conducted by…
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
USC Shoah Foundation Launches 500th IWitness Activity with “In Lisa's Footsteps” Virtual IWalk
USC Shoah Foundation today launches its 500th IWitness activity with release of In Lisa's Footsteps, a primary level IWalk based on Mona Golabek’s acclaimed The Children of Willesden Lane books.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2022
USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research Will Host the 2024 International Network of Genocide Scholars Convention
In recognition of its pioneering work advancing Holocaust and Genocide Studies since its inception in 2014, the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research has been awarded the honor of…
Monday, August 8, 2022
USC Shoah Foundation to host two summer events in Aspen, Colorado
USC Shoah Foundation today presents the first of two events in Aspen, Colorado hosted by Melinda Goldrich, a prominent member of the Aspen philanthropic community who serves on USC Shoah…
Monday, August 8, 2022
“I’m Just Acting, But This Was Her Real Life”
When Zuzanna Surowy needed to make herself cry as the lead actress in the Holocaust-era feature film My Name Is Sara, she followed the advice of her co-star to “put a demon inside of her” – to…
Thursday, August 4, 2022
Third Interdisciplinary Research Week Team Will Visit the Center in September
Each year, the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research hosts a team of scholars from different universities, different countries, and different academic disciplines for one…
Thursday, August 4, 2022
“Look and Don’t Forget” Remembrance Initiative Commemorates Roma Genocide Memorial Day at Auschwitz-Birkenau
August 2 was Roma Holocaust Memorial Day, the anniversary of the day in 1944 that nearly 3,000 Roma and Sinti women, men and children in Auschwitz-Birkenau’s Zigeunerlager (then known as the “Gypsy…
Wednesday, August 3, 2022