We Remember

In memory of Selma Engel, one of the few to survive Sobibor

We are saddened to hear of the recent passing of Selma Engel, who, after becoming one of the few people to escape the Sobibor death camp in Poland during the Holocaust, immediately began telling the…
Thursday, December 13, 2018

In memory of Selma Engel, one of the few to survive Sobibor

We are saddened to hear of the recent passing of Selma Engel, who, after becoming one of the few people to escape the Sobibor death camp in Poland during the Holocaust, immediately began telling the…
Thursday, December 13, 2018

In memory of Randolph Louis Braham

USC Shoah Foundation today honors the memory of dear friend and devoted historian Randolph Louis Braham, born Adolf Abraham on Dec. 20, 1922 in Bucharest, Romania. His lifelong commitment to the…
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

In memory of Randolph Louis Braham

USC Shoah Foundation today honors the memory of dear friend and devoted historian Randolph Louis Braham, born Adolf Abraham on Dec. 20, 1922 in Bucharest, Romania. His lifelong commitment to the…
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

In Memory: Holocaust survivor Henry Bawnik

USC Shoah Foundation is saddened to learn of the recent passing of Henry Bawnik, who survived a Jewish ghetto and four concentration camps during the Holocaust, only to nearly die on one of the last…
Thursday, September 13, 2018

In Memory: Holocaust survivor Henry Bawnik

USC Shoah Foundation is saddened to learn of the recent passing of Henry Bawnik, who survived a Jewish ghetto and four concentration camps during the Holocaust, only to nearly die on one of the last…
Thursday, September 13, 2018

In Memory: Holocaust survivor Henry Bawnik

USC Shoah Foundation is saddened to learn of the recent passing of Henry Bawnik, who survived a Jewish ghetto and four concentration camps during the Holocaust, only to nearly die on one of the last…
Thursday, September 13, 2018

Herman Shine, who escaped Auschwitz, passes away at 95

As he described in the testimony he gave to USC Shoah Foundation in 1997, it was one stroke of luck after another that allowed Herman Shine to become one of only a few hundred people to escape the…
Monday, August 6, 2018

Claude Lanzmann passes away at 92

USC Shoah Foundation is saddened to learn of the passing of Claude Lanzmann, whose monumental film "Shoah" introduced a new way of telling the story of the Holocaust. He died in Paris on Tuesday. He…
Thursday, July 5, 2018

In Memory of Gena Turgel, the 'Bride of Belsen' who cared for Anne Frank

USC Shoah Foundation mourns the recent passing of Gena Turgel, a Holocaust survivor who married a British liberator of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, where she was…
Thursday, June 14, 2018