The Consul General of Austria in Los Angeles pays visit to USC Shoah Foundation
Andreas Launer, who took the position in August of 2017, wanted to see firsthand what he’d heard about the Institute’s growing array of interactive projects, such as Dimensions in Testimony and the Institute's VR films.
Production begins on new 360 testimony featuring Holocaust survivor on site at concentration camp
Up and down, up and down. All day, every day.
From the base of a stone quarry, inmates of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria were compelled by Nazis during the Holocaust to climb 186 steps to the top, lugging boulders that would be used for German state construction projects.
Among those forced to take part in this sadistic form of slave labor was Edward Mosberg.
William P. Lauder Junior Internship Program in Full Swing
All this week, 25 middle and high school students from across the United States will be at USC Shoah Foundation to gain a deeper understanding of the causes and impacts of injustice and to learn about becoming active participants in civil society.
Holocaust Deniers Gaining a Foothold in our Democracy
It’s hard to imagine I’m even typing this sentence, but an avowed Holocaust denier is the official Republican nominee for an upcoming congressional election in Illinois, while a man whose website warns of a “Jewish supremacy” is running in California.
A Boy from Bustina: A Son, a Survivor, a Witness: Andrew Burian
Andrew Burian survived both the Birkenau and Mauthausen concentration camps as well as the infamous death march evacuations of each camp. Today, he uses the lessons of his childhood as a catalyst to fuel his lasting dedication to Holocaust education and remembrance.
Claude Lanzmann passes away at 92
USC Shoah Foundation is saddened to learn of the passing of Claude Lanzmann, whose monumental film "Shoah" introduced a new way of telling the story of the Holocaust. He died in Paris on Tuesday. He was 92.
Born Nov. 27, 1925, in Paris to Jewish parents, Lanzmann went into hiding during World War II.
Linguistics professor mines the Archive for material that will augment his research on marginalized languages
Aria Razfar, a fellow in residence this summer at USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research, sees parallels between the status of Yiddish in pre-war Germany and the status of Black English in the U.S. public school system.
80 years ago: An international conference to discuss Jewish refugees ends in failure
Eighty years ago, at the behest of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, representatives from 32 countries convened for a refugee conference in Evian-les-Bains, France to address a gathering storm in Nazi Germany – and discuss what to do about the intensifying persecution of Jews throughout Europe.
The event from July 6-15, 1938 would end in failure.