News By Year and Month

NEH Grant to Fund Transcription, Translation of Guatemalan Genocide Survivor Testimonies

A longtime scholar affiliate of the USC Shoah Foundation has received a $50,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to transcribe and translate the Maya-Kaqchikel and Spanish-language…
Thursday, June 29, 2023

We Remember Damas Gisimba, 61, Savior of More than 400 Rwandans During Genocide

The USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of Damas Gisimba, the director of a Kigali orphanage who sheltered and saved the lives of over 400 people, mostly children, during the 1994 Genocide…
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Defying Horrors of Teenage Years in Auschwitz, Joshua Kaufman, 95, Embraced Life

The USC Shoah Foundation mourns the June 6, 2023 passing of Joshua Kaufman, who survived Auschwitz and was liberated at Dachau Concentration Camp at the age of 17, and was recognized at the 2019…
Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Judge Thomas Buergenthal, 89, Pioneer of International Human Rights and One of Auschwitz’s Youngest Survivors

The USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of Thomas Buergenthal, one of the youngest known survivors of Auschwitz who later became an esteemed human rights attorney and United States representative…
Monday, June 12, 2023