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New Partnership Brings Survivor Voices to Hearts and Homes

Alan Rose was repeating himself. He was stuck in a particularly difficult part of his story about being deported from a labor camp to Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Josh Turnil and the guests he had…
Thursday, March 24, 2022

Thousands of Georgia Students Participate in Willesden Lane Education Event

More than 18,000 students and 250 teachers from school districts across Georgia last week experienced famed pianist Mona Golabek's livestreamed performance adapted from her acclaimed book, The…
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

USC Shoah Foundation Mourns the Passing of Survivor, Educator and Friend Helen Fagin

USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of our friend Helen Fagin, who has passed away in Sarasota, Florida at age 104. A Holocaust survivor, English professor and director of Judaic Studies at…
Friday, March 18, 2022

Application Open for Leadership Workshop – Action and Values, presented by the William P. Lauder Junior Internship Program this Summer

USC Shoah Foundation is now accepting applications for rising 8th–12th grade students across the country to participate in its highly competitive week-long summer program, Leadership Workshop –…
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

A Tribute to Sigmund Burke, 1924-2022

USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of Holocaust survivor and accomplished structural engineer Sigmund Burke, who died February 6, 2022 at nearly 98 years old. He recorded his testimony with USC…
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

The Starling Lab for Data Integrity Announces Inaugural Starling Journalism Fellows

The Starling Lab for Data Integrity (Starling Lab) today announced its inaugural class of Starling Journalism research fellows. The annual fellowship helps leading journalists from around the world…
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

“Once We Repel the Aggressors, We Will Get Back to Work,” USC Shoah Foundation Partner Anna Lenchovska, in Ukraine

Two weeks into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, USC Shoah Foundation is extremely concerned for its partners, survivors and friends in both countries and strongly condemns the senseless loss of life. …
Thursday, March 10, 2022

International Women's Day

Today is International Women’s Day and this year we are honoring girls—from Holocaust Europe to Africa, from Central America to the Middle East, from occupied China to pre-war Armenia—who…
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Attack on Ukraine Summons Haunting Echoes of the Past

Above, Alex Redner with his grandparents in 1937 in Lvov As the world watches in horror as millions of Ukrainians resist, take shelter or flee from Russian attacks, news reports stir up…
Monday, March 7, 2022

Lorena Sekwan Fontaine Lectures About Linguistic and Cultural Genocide and Redress in Canada

“Redress for Linguistic Genocide in Canada” Lorena Sekwan Fontaine (University of Winnipeg/San Diego State University) February 17, 2022 For the first lecture in its series of spring…
Friday, March 4, 2022

Ukraine under attack

We stand with our programmatic partners in both Ukraine and Russia who continue the hard work of building more tolerant communities by educating about the horrors of the Holocaust and the…
Thursday, February 24, 2022

Call for Applications: Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship Summer 2022

Call for Applications Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship Summer 2022 Deadline: April 10, 2022 The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced…
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Dimensions in Testimony in IWitness Pilot in South Africa Draws Praise from Students, Educators—and Interview Subject Pinchas Gutter

"I am so sorry for everything you have been through, but thank you for trying to educate us and make something out of your experience" "You are better than a war hero, because you survived" …
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Joe Adamson, Refugee, Interrogator, Regular Dad, Finally Told his Story

For much of their life, Allen and Peter Adamson didn't know that Joe, their easy-going, suburbanite dad, a VP at a New York plastics company, had a remarkable early history. He had escaped Germany at…
Friday, February 11, 2022

2022 Stronger Than Hate Challenge Launched, Inspires Students to Activism and Creative Expression

USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education today launched the fourth annual Stronger Than Hate Challenge offering students the opportunity to win $10,000 in prizes. The challenge encourages…
Thursday, February 10, 2022

USC Shoah Foundation Partners with the Srebrenica Memorial Center, Adds Srebrenica Survivor Testimonies to Visual History Archive

A pilot collection of 20 testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the 1995 genocide that took place in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina has been added to USC Shoah Foundation’s 55,000-strong Visual…
Thursday, February 10, 2022

Kiss László emlékére

A USC Soá Alapítvány mély megrendüléssel emlékezik meg Kiss Lászlóról, az auschwitz-birkenau-i láger túlélőjéről, akinek meghatározó szerepe volt a USC Soá Alapítvány magyarországi oktatási…
Friday, January 28, 2022

László Kiss, Twin Who Survived Auschwitz, Played Key Role in Hungarian Holocaust Education

USC Shoah Foundation mourns the loss of László Kiss, a survivor of Auschwitz who played an integral role in USC Shoah Foundation’s educational efforts in Hungary. László died January 25 at the age of…
Friday, January 28, 2022

The Willesden Project and The Conscious Kid Launch Hold on to Your Music Reading

To commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, USC Shoah Foundation, The Willesden Project, and The Conscious Kid today launch a video read-along of Hold on to Your Music, the children’s…
Friday, January 28, 2022

Visiting Scholar from Spain Exploring Roma, Sinti Testimonies in Visual History Archive

Annabel Carballo-Mesa is a PhD candidate at the University of Barcelona. Since January 17 she has been in Los Angeles conducting research with Visual History Archive (VHA) testimonies for a…
Thursday, January 27, 2022

New Virtual IWalk Web App Brings Remote Users to Holocaust-Related Historical Sites

USC Shoah Foundation today launches a new Virtual IWalk web app that enables students and teachers to tour historic sites online while watching and listening to witness testimonies from the Visual…
Thursday, January 27, 2022

Liberation Through a 15-Year-Old’s Eyes—Fear, Relief, Uncertainty

For weeks, Eva (Geiringer) Schloss and a small band of young women had been exploring the far corners of the women’s section of Auschwitz-Birkenau, alone and, for the first time in months, unwatched…
Friday, January 21, 2022

Scholar Lab Experiments with Novel Approach to Exploring Antisemitism

Dr. Josh Kun, who won a 2016 MacArthur "genius” grant for his unbounded thinking and artistry, doesn’t like to compartmentalize. A scholar of culture, social politics, history and communications, he…
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

The long arc of history bends towards justice

Rabbi Gunther Plaut was born in Germany and escaped to the United States in 1935, two years after the Nazi rise to power. He later immigrated to Canada, where he became rabbi at Holy Blossom Temple…
Monday, January 17, 2022

He Helped Rescue Thousands from the Nazis, Then Kept His Story Quiet for Decades

In a five-hour interview with USC Shoah Foundation, Justus Rosenberg refers to himself as “small fry,” “a cog,” an unimportant person. And perhaps it was for this reason that for decades, the Bard…
Monday, January 10, 2022

Two Holocaust Survivors and Friends of USC Shoah Foundation Honored By Queen Elizabeth II

Two Holocaust survivors and friends of USC Shoah Foundation, Max Eisen and Dr. Agnes Kaposi, have been recognized by Queen Elizabeth II for their work in Holocaust education. Eisen was appointed…
Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Barnabas Balint Awarded 2021-2022 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship

Barnabas Balint, a PhD candidate at Magdalen College at the University of Oxford, UK, has been awarded the 2021-2022 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship at the USC Dornsife Center for…
Monday, January 3, 2022

Charlotte Kiechel Awarded 2021-2022 Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies

Charlotte Kiechel, a Ph.D. candidate in Global History at Yale University, has been awarded the 2021-2022 USC Shoah Foundation Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies. She will be in…
Monday, January 3, 2022

Lilia Tomchuk Awarded 2021-2022 Greenberg Research Fellowship

Lilia Tomchuk, a PhD candidate at the Fritz Bauer Institute at Goethe University Frankfurt, has been awarded the 2021-2022 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellowship at the USC Dornsife Center…
Monday, January 3, 2022