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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
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
CAGR Conference Summary - Heroines of the Holocaust: New Frameworks of Resistance (June 2022)
“Heroines of the Holocaust: New Frameworks of Resistance”
Organized by the Wagner College Holocaust Center
Cosponsored by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide…
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Two USC Students Will Share the 2022 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship
Two USC scholars – graduate students Emily Geminder and Vaclav Masek - will share the Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship for Summer 2022.
The Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research…
Thursday, June 30, 2022
In Grand Sanctuary, Holocaust Survivors Share Their Stories
On a Wednesday morning in New York in the fall of 2021, Rabbi Nicole Auerbach greeted Walter and Phyllis Loeb in Central Synagogue’s majestic sanctuary. She led them through the arch-lined nave, past…
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
New Swedish Holocaust Museum Inaugurated in Stockholm
"It’s very important that the Swedish Holocaust Museum is one of Sweden’s National Historical Museums. We believe the Holocaust is not a Jewish concern, but that it is, and must be, a universal one."…
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Pianist Mona Golabek to introduce The Willesden Project at a Benefit Concert for Ukrainian Refugees at the POLIN Museum in Warsaw
USC Shoah Foundation is bringing The Willesden Project educational initiative to a group of 500 Ukrainian refugees and other guests in Warsaw, Poland this weekend. The event will also feature a…
Thursday, June 16, 2022
Call for Papers: Fifth International Graduate Students' Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Call for Papers
International Conference
Fifth International Graduate Students' Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies
October 16-19, 2023
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Thursday, June 16, 2022
Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff Visits USC Shoah Foundation
USC Shoah Foundation–the Institute for Visual History and Education (USC Shoah Foundation) on Wednesday welcomed Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff to the Institute’s global headquarters on the campus…
Friday, June 10, 2022
Starling Lab and Hala Systems file Cryptographic Submission of Evidence of War Crimes in Ukraine to the International Criminal Court
Legal and technical breakthrough as digital evidence package is registered and preserved on 7 protocols across decentralized web —a first for any court submission in the world.
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Friday, June 10, 2022
USC Shoah Foundation Testimonies to Feature in Hebrew University Study on Survivor Narratives
USC Shoah Foundation has partnered with a group of scholars from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem to provide them with 1,000 transcripts from the Visual History Archive for a study that will…
Monday, June 6, 2022
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