"When collective hate organizes and gets industrialized, then genocide follows," said Spielberg. "We have to take it more seriously today than I think we have had to take it in a generation," he said during a time of heightened identity politics and the massacre of 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in which the suspected shooter left a trail of anti-Semitic posts online.
Marking the 85th Anniversary of the 1932-1933 Ukrainian Famine
Eighty-five years ago, millions of residents of Ukraine were starved to death as a result of the Soviet-era policies under Joseph Stalin’s totalitarian regime. The man-made famine of 1932-1933, also known as Holodomor, is part of my home country’s history that I grew to fully understand only through my work at USC Shoah Foundation.
Inna Gogina has worked at USC Shoah Foundation in a variety of capacities since 1999, including assistant production coordinator, historical content analyst, coordinator of international programs, international digital education associate, and, currently, an archivist.
Survivors and Soldiers: Revolutionary Technology Preserves Living Testimony of Soviet Jewish Experience of Holocaust and WWII
USC Shoah Foundation and Genesis Philanthropy Group partner to create first Russian-language interactive biographies for award-winning Dimensions in Testimony program.
Missing Links: Social Bonds and Barriers amongst Italian Jewish Deportees
Doheny Memorial Library 241
United States
Public lecture by Bieke Van Camp (PhD candidate, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France)
2018-2019 Katz Research Fellow
Afterlives: Memories of the Displaced Persons Camps in Italy
Social Sciences Building (SOS) 250
United States
Public lecture by Danielle Willard-Kyle (PhD candidate, Rutgers University)
2019 Center Graduate Research Fellow
Kristallnacht conference convened scholars from around the world
The event hosted by USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research appears to have been the only international academic conference to mark the 80th anniversary of this fateful event of November 1938, during which Nazis and ordinary Germans murdered more than 100 Jews and destroyed thousands of synagogues, Jewish institutions, stores and homes across Germany.
Steven Spielberg discusses lessons he hopes students will take away from rerelease of ‘Schindler’s List’
In a webinar interview, the film’s director and the Institute’s founder says he believes that 25 years after the release of 'Schindler's List,' the film is more important than ever. “Especially for the young people today, who face a country and a world where democracy is threatened.”