The USC Shoah Foundation joins the University of Southern California and countless communities around the world to mourn the passing of Wallis Annenberg, a Life Member of the USC Shoah Foundation Board of Councilors and a towering figure in American philanthropy who passed away on July 28 at the age of 86.
D. Wes Rist is an atrocity prevention professional with nearly 20 years of experience in international human rights law, transitional justice, and international criminal justice. He previously served as an Atrocity Prevention Officer in the Bureau of Conflict & Stabilization Operations (CSO) at the U.S.
Gerald Molen, Academy Award®-winning producer of Schindler’s List, served on the founding advisory committee.
A production assistant on Schindler’s List, Karen Kushell led the effort to organize a team of experts to realize Steven Spielberg’s project of recording Holocaust survivor testimony.
Academy Award®-winning producer of Schindler's List and the Gladiator, Branko Lustig served on the founding advisory committee. As a Holocaust survivor, Branko also gave his testimony to the institute in 1999.
Director and producer James Moll was one of the two founding executive directors of Survivors of the Shoah. He directed the Academy Award®-winning documentary The Last Days.
Award-winning producer June Beallor was one of the two founding executive directors of Survivors of the Shoah, which became the USC Shoah Foundation. She also produced several documentaries for the institute that drew from survivor testimony.
Recently, 80 years after the men first crossed paths, their lives intersected once again — though this time in Los Angeles, where they both live. Their reunion was arranged by the USC Shoah Foundation, with the goal of bringing together a survivor and a liberator whose lives converged amid the horrors of the war.
“AI is not neutral or impartial.” Dr. Brian Hughes, director of the USC Shoah Foundation Countering Antisemitism Lab, appears on a segment looking at the issue of the chatbot's recent antisemitic posts. He appears at the 2:15 minute mark in the video.