News By Year

Remembering those we lost in 2024

The USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of members of our community in 2024, including survivors who have given testimony, Yehuda Bauer, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Dana Schwartz, Abner Delman, Rena…
Friday, December 20, 2024

We Mourn the Passing of Steve Cozen

With profound sadness, we mourn the passing of Steve Cozen, our former Chair of the Board of Councilors. Steve’s passion for fighting antisemitism and educating the next generation led him to join…
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Global Partnership Takes Aim at Rising Antisemitism

The USC Shoah Foundation announced a partnership with the Berlin-based Kreuzberg Initiative against Anti-Semitism (KIgA), a collaboration that will increase European access to testimonies of…
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

XR Experience “Inside Kristallnacht” Takes Audiences Through Pivotal Moment in Holocaust History

The USC Shoah Foundation partnered with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) on the development and launch of Inside Kristallnacht, an innovative mixed-reality…
Thursday, November 7, 2024

A Tribute to Professor Yehuda Bauer

Yehuda Bauer (z”l) was much more than his many well-deserved titles, including (but not limited to) Professor Emeritus of History and Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary…
Friday, October 18, 2024

Ambassadors for Humanity Gala Honors Holocaust Survivors

New York, NY (October 14, 2024) —Nearly 700 guests convened for an unforgettable evening of celebration and inspiration at the USC Shoah Foundation’s Ambassadors for Humanity Gala. This milestone…
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Witnesses and History: October 7 Attacks, One Year Later

The USC Shoah Foundation stands in solemn tribute to the memory of those murdered by Hamas on October 7, 2023, and to those hostages still in captivity. As we mark this day, we reflect not only on…
Monday, September 30, 2024

The USC Shoah Foundation Launches Countering Antisemitism Laboratory

With antisemitic harassment and violence surging ferociously around the globe, the USC Shoah Foundation establishes a Countering Antisemitism Laboratory to research and combat one of…
Thursday, September 12, 2024

USC Shoah Foundation Names Mollie Bowman Managing Director of Living Links

The USC Shoah Foundation and Living Links have named Mollie Bowman Managing Director of Living Links, the first national organization created to engage and empower third-generation (3G) descendants…
Thursday, August 8, 2024

Ita Gordon, 84, Brought Passion and Expertise to Her Work with Testimony

The USC Shoah Foundations mourns the passing of friend and colleague Ita Gordon, an indexer, translator, mentor, and researcher who, for nearly thirty years, channeled her passion for testimony…
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Ita Gordon: A Passion for Testimony

As we celebrate our 30th anniversary, we pay tribute to some of the people who helped build the organization. Ita Gordon has worked as an indexer, translator, mentor, and researcher at the USC…
Monday, July 22, 2024

USC Shoah Foundation Appoints Two New Members to Senior Leadership Team

The USC Shoah Foundation has named two key members to its senior leadership team, Senior Director of Programs Catherine E. Clark and Director of Administration Jenna Leventhal. The appointments…
Thursday, July 18, 2024

Remembering Dr. Ruth Westheimer

The USC Shoah Foundation mourns the loss of Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who fled Nazi Germany without her parents at the age of 10 and went on to become a renowned and beloved sex…
Saturday, July 13, 2024

Holocaust Survivor Dana Schwartz, 89, Recorded Interviews with More Than 125 Survivors

We mourn the passing of Dana Schwartz, 89, a Holocaust survivor and dedicated interviewer for the USC Shoah Foundation, who died on May 9 in Los Angeles. Dana, who later became a teacher and…
Wednesday, July 3, 2024

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

In a five-hour interview with the USC Shoah Foundation, Justus Rosenberg refers to himself as a “small fry,” “a cog,” an unimportant person. And perhaps it was for this reason that for decades, the…
Sunday, June 9, 2024

Dr. Abner Delman, 93, Husband of Survivor, Supported Holocaust Education

The USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of Dr. Abner Delman, a cardiologist and longtime supporter of the USC Shoah Foundation. He was 93. Abner's wife, Ilse-Lore Delman, was a Holocaust…
Monday, June 3, 2024

“Archives in/of Transit” Workshop Investigates Intersections of Migrant Experiences and Archival Collections

The USC Shoah Foundation is proud to co-convene "Archives in/of Transit: Historical Perspectives from the 1930s to the Present," a closed, in-person workshop for scholars that will take place on June…
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Iraqi Survivor Ruth Pearl Fostered Harmony and Understanding in Memory of Son Daniel Pearl

On January 23, 2002, Ruth Pearl dreamt that her son, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, was scared and in trouble. In her dream, she told him she would bring him tea and take care of him. She…
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

USC Shoah Foundation Partners with Living Links, First National Organization for Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors

Living Links, the first national organization created to engage and empower third-generation (3G) descendants of Holocaust survivors, has joined forces with the USC Shoah Foundation. The new…
Thursday, May 9, 2024

Lea Zajac de Novera’s Dimensions in Testimony Brings Spanish-Language Holocaust Education to Classrooms

The USC Shoah Foundation and The Latin American Network for Education on the Shoah (Red LAES) have launched a new educational web page featuring the first Spanish-language Dimensions in Testimony …
Monday, May 6, 2024

Statement from our Executive Director on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day

On April 24, we call on the world to remember the genocide of the Armenian people. 109 years ago, during the First World War, Ottoman authorities arrested hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and…
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Recovered Testimony Brings Light, More Questions, to an Armenian Family

Over the past month, for the first time, I listened to the testimony of my late great-grandmother, Mary Antekelian, a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. The interview is an audio recording, but I…
Thursday, April 4, 2024

Hogan’s Heroes Actor Robert Clary, 96, Survived the Holocaust and Committed Himself to Remembrance

In September 1994, Hogan’s Heroes actor Robert Clary stepped up to be among the first 100 Holocaust survivors to be interviewed by Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, the organization…
Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Olympic Race Walker Shaul Ladany Survived Bergen-Belsen and the Munich Massacre

Shaul Ladany, an 88-year-old world-record holding speed-walker, has defied death multiple times. As a small child, he survived the German occupation of Budapest and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp…
Monday, March 25, 2024

Schindler’s List Survivor Celina Biniaz Warns Against the Corrosive Power of Hatred

For years, Celina Biniaz, one of the youngest people saved by Oskar Schindler, did not tell anyone – not even her children – that she was a Holocaust survivor. She feared no one could comprehend what…
Monday, March 25, 2024

She Smuggled Love, Hope, and Dynamite Over the Ghetto Walls

Not long after Feigele (Vladka) Peltel’s father died of pneumonia in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940, the 17-year-old found herself at a lecture about Yiddish author I.L. Peretz hosted by her social…
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

USC Shoah Foundation Partners with National Library of Israel

Today’s signing ceremony of the MOU between the USC Shoah Foundation and the National Library of Israel. Left: Dr. Robert J. Williams, Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation; Right: Sallai…
Monday, March 4, 2024

Remembering Kia Hays

When one works in the field of Holocaust memory, you tend to find that your colleagues are a mission driven, self-effacing, highly dedicated bunch. We work with hard subjects, care deeply and…
Friday, February 2, 2024

Professor Dan Stone Named the 2023-2024 Shapiro Scholar in Residence

Professor Dan Stone, a renowned historian of the Holocaust, will serve as the 2023-2024 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research and USC…
Friday, February 2, 2024