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2016 IWitness Video Challenge Award Goes to Eighth-Grade Poetry Club Creators


A trio of eighth-graders from New Jersey created a poetry group that has enabled students at their school to express their hardships and appreciation for one another. Read More

Junior Interns Visit Manzanar Japanese Internment Camp


The USC Shoah Foundation Junior Interns learned about Japanese internment on their second annual field trip. Read More

A childhood lost, a childhood found


At its physical core, USC Shoah Foundation is an impressive bank of computers and programs that bring the testimony of genocide survivors to people around the world. It’s a complicated and mysterious process for those who don’t have advanced degrees. But beyond the connections of wires and microchips, there is something far more mysterious and complicated going on: the human connection that takes place between people from different times, different places and different backgrounds when they engage with testimony. Read More

New Monument in Békéscsaba, Hungary, Marks 72 Years Since Transport to Auschwitz-Birkenau


Békéscsaba is the birthplace of survivor Gabor Hirsch, who traveled to Poland with USC Shoah Foundation in 2015 for "Auschwitz: The Past is Present." Read More

UK’s National Holocaust Centre and Museum Commemorates 20th Anniversary


The National Holocaust Centre and Museum, founded by USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith and James Smith, will commemorate its 20th anniversary June 26 with a service at Westminster Abbey in London. Read More

IHRA's Kathrin Meyer Discusses Holocaust Education with Kori Street


Kathrin Meyer concluded her visit to USC Shoah Foundation with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) with an informative conversation with Director of Education Kori Street. Read More

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