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POLIN “Museum on Wheels” Brings Testimony Across Poland


Not everyone in Poland has made it to Warsaw to visit POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. But this summer, the museum came to them. Read More

USC Shoah Foundation to Lead Panel at USC Global Conference in Shanghai


USC Shoah Foundation will return to China, where it has collected some of its newest testimonies, to participate in University of Southern California’s Global Conference 2015. Read More

Behind the Music: Music as Resistance in Indonesia


Sandya Maulana’s presentation at the symposium is a chance to discuss an issue from his native Indonesia that has yet to be discussed even in Indonesia itself. Read More

Film Music, Testimony and the Holocaust


When I commenced my PhD journey three years ago at Edge Hill University in northern England, I had little idea of where the journey would take me, both literally and figuratively. Read More

USC Neuroscientists Use Testimony in Groundbreaking Study of Gratitude


When someone gives you a gift or does you a favor, what’s happening in your brain? That’s what researchers from USC’s Department of Psychology and Brain and Creativity Institute have just discovered, with the help of testimony from the Visual History Archive. The research team of Glenn Fox, Jonas Kaplan, Hanna Damasio and Antonio Damasio has revealed its findings in the paper “Neural correlates of gratitude,” now published in the academic journal Frontiers in Psychology. Read More

In Memory of Johnny Strange


USC Shoah Foundation is saddened to learn of the passing of Johnny Strange, a record-holding adventurer and supporter of USC Shoah Foundation. Read More

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