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Preserving Holocaust Testimonies at Risk of Being Lost
With assistance from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the German Federal Ministry of Finance, and the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future, the USC Shoah…
Thursday, October 22, 2026
An interview with Dr. Khatchig Mouradian
Dr. Khatchig Mouradian is the first Armenian Genocide scholar to record an interactive biography with the USC Shoah Foundation’s Dimensions in Testimony program. Beginning this month, his testimony…
Friday, November 21, 2025
AJC, USC Shoah Foundation Partner to Document and Map Global Antisemitism
American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the USC Shoah Foundation announced today at AJC Global Forum their newly formed partnership to give voice to, document, and map modern-day antisemitism around the…
Monday, April 28, 2025
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
Tablet Studios and The USC Shoah Foundation Join Forces to Launch Multimedia Collection from the October 7 Terrorist Attacks in Israel
In the aftermath of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel, the USC Shoah Foundation and Tablet Studios announced a partnership to collect, archive, and make available testimonies…
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Urgent Campaign Records Eyewitness Accounts of Antisemitic Terror Attacks in Israel
In the moments before Shaylee Atary Winner escaped from her home in the early morning hours of October 7, she saw her husband fighting to close the iron window grates in their safe room over the…
Friday, December 1, 2023
Boredom and Excitement at Sea: Jewish Refugees' Experiences on Shanghai-bound Ships
Between 1938 and 1940 an estimated 17,000 mostly Austrian and German Jews traveled from Europe to Shanghai, many on luxury liners. They were escaping the upsurge of violent antisemitism in Europe and…
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Dimensions in Testimony Education Releases Interview with Nuremberg Prosecutor Ben Ferencz
Ben Ferencz, the last remaining prosecutor from the Nuremberg Trials who passed away in Florida earlier this month, gave countless interviews over the course of his illustrious career.
But surely…
Monday, April 17, 2023
Nearly 80 Years After The Holocaust, A Survivor Tells His Story
Gerald Szames is 2, maybe 3 years old. He is standing at the foot of the bed, looking at his mother. She is sick, propped up on a pile of pillows.
He has other flashes of memories of life…
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
USC Shoah Foundation Ramps Up Survivor Testimony Collection Efforts with New ‘Memory Studio’
Gerald Szames chokes up easily, especially when talking about his mother. So for years, his daughter has taken it upon herself to tell her father’s story of surviving the Holocaust as a small boy…
Thursday, January 19, 2023