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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
Barnabas Balint Lectures About Growing Up Jewish During the Holocaust In Hungary
"Growing Up Jewish During the Holocaust in Hungary”
Barnabas Balint (PhD candidate in History, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, UK)
2021-2022 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research…
Friday, April 29, 2022
Shapiro Scholar Sara R. Horowitz Lectures About How Holocaust Survivors Craft Their Stories
"Reclaiming the 'Ruins of Memory': Gender, Agency, and Imagination in Stories of the Shoah”
Sara R. Horowitz (York University, Canada)
2020-2021 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in…
Friday, April 29, 2022
Lilia Tomchuk Lectures About Jewish Women's Agency in Transnistria During the Holocaust
"Shades of Agency: Choice, Survival & Resistance of Jewish Women During the Holocaust in Transnistria”
Lilia Tomchuk (PhD candidate in History, Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt, Germany)
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Friday, April 29, 2022
We Remember Max Glauben
USC Shoah Foundation is saddened to learn about the passing of Max Glauben, a child survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, the Majdanek and Dachau concentration camps, and a veteran of the United States Army…
Thursday, April 28, 2022
One Youth Group, An Army, and Two Uprisings—The Resistance of Joseph Greenblatt
Joseph Greenblatt believes it was the antisemitic taunts he endured throughout his childhood in Warsaw that led him to a life of resistance. He was a key player in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,…
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
A Conversation with Pinchas Gutter
Pinchas Gutter is a survivor of six German Nazi concentration camps who now lives in Toronto, Canada. He has shared his remarkable story with USC Shoah Foundation in a variety of formats—through oral…
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
The Center Searches for Photographs of Nazi Mass Deportations As Part of the #LastSeen Project
The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research is proud to announce its cooperation with a German government funded multi-institutional Holocaust research project entitled #LastSeen -…
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
In the Throes of the Armenian Genocide, His Mother Protected Him and Saved More Than a Hundred Others
When Sam Kadorian was a child, Ottoman soldiers would conduct drills in a field near his home in Mezre (modern-day Elazığ, Turkey), adjacent to the fortress town of Kharpert. Sam would stand close by…
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Renderings of New Holocaust Museum in Orlando reveal “Beacon of Light” Dedicated to Survivor and Witness Testimonies
The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida (HMREC) has unveiled architectural renderings of the new Holocaust Museum for Hope & Humanity in Orlando, Florida that will be the…
Monday, April 18, 2022
Documentary Featuring Visual History Archive Testimony Ignites Debate over Accountability, Memory in Hungary
A powerful documentary that hinges on USC Shoah Foundation testimony raises difficult questions about how Hungary memorializes victims of the Nazi occupation and confronts its own role in wartime…
Saturday, April 16, 2022
Theary Seng
One morning in 1978, Theary Seng awoke alongside her younger brother in their prison cell in Boeng Rai Security Center, about 100 kilometers south of their hometown of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The…
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Four Siblings—Aged 95, 97, 99, and 100—Record “Last Chance Testimony” Stories of Survival
Sally (Fink) Singer still cries over the spilled milk. Yes, it happened more than 80 years ago. And at the age of 100, Sally knows that her siblings – Anne (99), Sol (97), and Ruth (95), who to this…
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
New Partnership with NCFL Producing Testimony-based Educational Offerings to Support Family Literacy Skills
Modern day Kentucky and WWII-era Austria may seem worlds apart, but the far-flung locales and distant timeframes came together last month at a series of educational workshops at the Iroquois Branch…
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
New Srebrenica Survivor Testimonies Recall 1995 Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Earlier this year, thanks to a new collaboration with the Srebrenica Memorial Center, USC Shoah Foundation took possession of a pilot collection of 20 testimonies of survivors and witnesses of…
Monday, April 11, 2022
In The Mountains of Western Rwanda, a Resistance Led By Elders
At one point in the horrific spring of 1994, Narcisse Gasimba had given up.
Since April, Gasimba and other resistors in the mountains of western Rwanda had been using stones and spears to fend off…
Thursday, April 7, 2022
Remembering Gerda Weissmann Klein
Above: Gerda Weissmann Klein with her granddaughter Alysa Cooper
USC Shoah Foundation mourns the loss of Holocaust survivor and Institute friend Gerda Weissmann Klein, who passed away on April 3,…
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
USC Shoah Foundation Mourns the Passing of William (“Bill”) Harvey—Holocaust Survivor, Friend and Cosmetologist to the Stars
USC Shoah Foundation mourns the loss of William (“Bill”) Harvey, a friend of the institute who survived two Nazi concentration camps and later became a well-known cosmetologist with a client list…
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
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