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USC Shoah Foundation’s Stephen Smith among group of Holocaust experts to reach out to Mark Zuckerberg


USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith joined a group of leaders from Holocaust and genocide-awareness organizations who signed a letter offering to meet with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who sparked controversy last month by saying he wouldn’t shut down accounts of Holocaust deniers. Read More

"The Girl and the Picture" wins top doc award


The film was honored with the Impact DOCS Award for outstanding achievement. Read More

Polish educators complete first phase of annual teaching-with-testimony program


Over six days, teachers from all over Poland learned how to best integrate USC Shoah Foundation's testimonies of genocide survivors into their classroom experiences. Read More

Herman Shine, who escaped Auschwitz, passes away at 95


As he described in the testimony he gave to USC Shoah Foundation in 1997, it was one stroke of luck after another that allowed Herman Shine to become one of only a few hundred people to escape the Auschwitz death camp. Read More

We Remember: Roma Holocaust Memorial Day


On August 2, 1944, nearly 3,000 Roma and Sinti women, men and children were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Read More

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