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Spring Release adds Tutsi, Rohingya, and "Last Chance" Testimonies

Above: Holocaust survivor Elly Gotz who gave his testimony to the Azrieli Foundation in 2018. His interview is one of 31 new testimonies from the Azrieli Foundation that have been indexed and…
Thursday, April 9, 2020

Spring Release adds Tutsi, Rohingya, and "Last Chance" Testimonies

Above: Holocaust survivor Elly Gotz who gave his testimony to the Azrieli Foundation in 2018. His interview is one of 31 new testimonies from the Azrieli Foundation that have been indexed and…
Thursday, April 9, 2020

USC Shoah Foundation redoubles efforts to collect testimonies of Holocaust survivors before it is too late

Miriam Katin survived the Holocaust as a toddler because her quick-thinking mother faked their deaths in Budapest at a historically perilous time for Jews in Hungary. Now 77, Katin has a thriving…
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

USC Shoah Foundation redoubles efforts to collect testimonies of Holocaust survivors before it is too late

Miriam Katin survived the Holocaust as a toddler because her quick-thinking mother faked their deaths in Budapest at a historically perilous time for Jews in Hungary. Now 77, Katin has a thriving…
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

USC Shoah Foundation redoubles efforts to collect testimonies of Holocaust survivors before it is too late

Miriam Katin survived the Holocaust as a toddler because her quick-thinking mother faked their deaths in Budapest at a historically perilous time for Jews in Hungary. Now 77, Katin has a thriving…
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

USC Shoah Foundation redoubles efforts to collect testimonies of Holocaust survivors before it is too late

Miriam Katin survived the Holocaust as a toddler because her quick-thinking mother faked their deaths in Budapest at a historically perilous time for Jews in Hungary. Now 77, Katin has a thriving…
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Donor enables indexing of Lithuanian testimonies, unlocking history of one of the hardest-hit countries in the Holocaust

When it comes to implementing Nazi Germany’s Final Solution, few places were more successful than Nazi-occupied Lithuania. More than 90 percent of the country’s wartime Jewish population of 250,000…
Friday, June 14, 2019

Oral history, testimonies of Jewish soldiers who fought in the Soviet Army during World War II added to Visual History Archive

Editor's note: Today, as part of its periodic Visual History Archive update, USC Shoah Foundation is adding 43 testimonies to the Archive. This story highlights a partnership that played a crucial…
Friday, April 19, 2019

Oral history, testimonies of Jewish soldiers who fought in the Soviet Army during World War II added to Visual History Archive

Editor's note: Today, as part of its periodic Visual History Archive update, USC Shoah Foundation is adding 43 testimonies to the Archive. This story highlights a partnership that played a crucial…
Friday, April 19, 2019

Oral history, testimonies of Jewish soldiers who fought in the Soviet Army during World War II added to Visual History Archive

Editor's note: Today, as part of its periodic Visual History Archive update, USC Shoah Foundation is adding 43 testimonies to the Archive. This story highlights a partnership that played a crucial…
Friday, April 19, 2019