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The antisemitic vandalism of Elie Wiesel's house hits home


My father was born and raised in Sighet, Romania, just down the road from the Elie Wiesel's simple blue childhood home. When the Nobel laureate's house was spray-painted with antisemitic slurs this summer, it felt like an attack on my own familial history. Read More

'The Girl and The Picture' is open to general audiences


Starting today, "The Girl and The Picture," USC Shoah Foundation’s documentary about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, is being shown for one week at the Laemmle Monica Film Center in Santa Monica. Read More

'The Girl and The Picture' is open to general audiences


Starting today, "The Girl and The Picture," USC Shoah Foundation’s documentary about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, is being shown for one week at the Laemmle Monica Film Center in Santa Monica. Read More

'The Girl and The Picture' is open to general audiences


Starting today, "The Girl and The Picture," USC Shoah Foundation’s documentary about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, is being shown for one week at the Laemmle Monica Film Center in Santa Monica. Read More

In Memory: Holocaust survivor Henry Bawnik


Bawnik survived a Jewish ghetto and four concentration camps, only to nearly die on one of the last days of the war, when British warplanes bombed a German ocean liner that he and thousands of other Jewish prisoners had been forced to board. Read More

In Memory: Holocaust survivor Henry Bawnik


Bawnik survived a Jewish ghetto and four concentration camps, only to nearly die on one of the last days of the war, when British warplanes bombed a German ocean liner that he and thousands of other Jewish prisoners had been forced to board. Read More

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