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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
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
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
“Righteous Diplomats” Testimony Added to Visual History Archive, Featured in New Video and Educational Material
Fifteen hours of interviews describing the actions of a group of World War II-era diplomats who defied official policies to save tens of thousands of lives during the Holocaust have been added…
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
California Governor Declares Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day a Statewide Holiday, Junior Interns Use IWalk to tour Montebello Monument
California Governor Gavin Newsom recently declared that Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day—observed annually on April 24—will become a statewide holiday to be known as Genocide Awareness Day.
A…
Friday, October 28, 2022
July 11 Commemorates Srebrenica Genocide Day
July 11 marks 26 years since the Srebrenica genocide, the biggest in a cluster of massacres that occurred as part of the campaign of ethnic cleansing in eastern parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina during…
Monday, July 11, 2022
In Grand Sanctuary, Holocaust Survivors Share Their Stories
On a Wednesday morning in New York in the fall of 2021, Rabbi Nicole Auerbach greeted Walter and Phyllis Loeb in Central Synagogue’s majestic sanctuary. She led them through the arch-lined nave, past…
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
New Swedish Holocaust Museum Inaugurated in Stockholm
"It’s very important that the Swedish Holocaust Museum is one of Sweden’s National Historical Museums. We believe the Holocaust is not a Jewish concern, but that it is, and must be, a universal one."…
Tuesday, June 28, 2022