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USC Shoah Foundation Commemorates Yom HaShoah Around the World


Across the United States and in Europe, USC Shoah Foundation is helping to commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, on May 4 and 5. Read More

Managing Testimony Data Gets an Update


USC Shoah Foundation’s ability to capture and preserve important information about each testimony has gotten a critical update. Read More

Commemorating Yom HaShoah through Testimony


Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom HaShoah as it’s known in Hebrew, commemorates and honors the victims and survivors of the Holocaust. This year, people around the world will remember the victims of the Holocaust May 4-5, 2016.  Read More

Original Manuscript of Armenian Genocide Whistleblower Discovered in San Francisco


Diana Hekimian, an active member of the Armenian community in Los Angeles, found an original copy of one of the earliest reports of the 1915 genocide in Armenia: "The Diyarbekir Massacres and Kurdish Atrocities," by Thomas Mugerditchian. Read More

Berlin Graduate Students Research Holocaust Victims for Stolperstein Memorial


USC Shoah Foundation Teaching Fellows Alina Bothe and Gertrud Pickhan’s course “The Deportation of Polish Jews from Berlin in 1938” has led to another family learning its fate for the first time and receiving a special memorial called a “Stolperstein.” Read More

Holocaust Survivor Zenon Neumark Speaks to Students and Donates Historical Documents


Neumark spoke to undergraduate students in Wolf Gruner's "Resistance to Genocide" class and donated two postcards he wrote while he was evading the Nazis. Read More

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