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Glendale Community Excited to Learn About USC Shoah Foundation at Public Presentation


Over 85 members of the Glendale, Calif. community attended a presentation organized by the Glendale Public Library on Oct. 26 about the Visual History Archive’s Armenian Genocide testimony collection and educational resources on IWitness. Read More

Wolf Gruner Earns Three Awards for New Book on Anti-Jewish Persecution in Bohemia and Moravia


The book just earned second place for the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research for books published in 2015 and 2016. Read More

When Nazis Are Normal


The day after Thanksgiving, the New York Times published an article called “In America’s Heartland, the Nazi Sympathizer Next Door,” by Richard Fausset. It profiles Tony Hovater, a 29-year-old far-right extremist and Nazi sympathizer who lives in the suburbs of Dayton, Ohio. Read More

New IWitness Activity Explores Homecoming after the Holocaust


The critically acclaimed 2017 Hungarian film 1945 is the subject of a new English-language IWitness activity, 1945 – Homecoming. Read More

Renowned Scholar Lucette Valensi Records Interview for Middle East and North Africa Collection


Lucette Valensi, who lived through World War II in Tunisia as a child and is now one of the most influential scholars of North African history, recorded an interview last week for USC Shoah Foundation’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Collection. Read More

Renowned Scholar Lucette Valensi Records Interview for Middle East and North Africa Collection


Lucette Valensi, who lived through World War II in Tunisia as a child and is now one of the most influential scholars of North African history, recorded an interview last week for USC Shoah Foundation’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Collection. Read More

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