On January 25, at the United Nations in New York, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute hosted a reception for the opening of Generations:  Survival and the Legacy of Hope, a video installation which explores the impact of the Holocaust on four families across three generations.  Generations was developed by the UK Holocaust Centre.

Alla giornata di studi promossa a Milano dal Dipartimento di Pedagogia dell’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore con il contributo dell’Associazione “Figli della Shoah,” hanno partecipato esperti delle maggiori istituzioni internazionali, il Memoriale Yad Vashem di Gerusalemme, lo USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education presso la University of Southern California, il Memorial de la Shoah di Parigi.

On November 23, 2009, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute hosted a group of 50 students from the GEAR UP program in San Marcos, California.  GEAR UP is designed to help high school students prepare and plan for their college education.  In addition to receiving a tour of the USC campus, students spent nearly two hours learning about the Institute's educational mission and listening to Renée Firestone, a Holocaust survivor whose testimony is in the Institute archive.  Ms.

On October 27, 2009, Chabad@USC sponsored an evening with Zvi Bielski, son of the late Zus Bielski who, along with his brothers, led the largest Jewish resistance and rescue effort during World War II.  Zvi spoke with students about the true events behind the 2008 film Defiance, which told the story of the Partisans and how they came to rescue more than 1,200 Jewish people by escaping to the deep forest in German-occupied Poland (now Belarus).  The USC Shoah Foundation Institute archive is rich with the firsthand stories of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust, includ