A musical tribute to the victims of the Cambodian Genocide

By: Alex Biniaz-Harris

Musician Alex Biniaz-Harris, a former employee at USC Shoah Foundation, writes about his inspiration for a piano composition he is co-writing with Ambrose Soehn, a former intern at the Institute. The duo plans to perform the piece in Cambodia in January to commemorate that country’s upcoming 40-year anniversary of liberation from the genocide at the hands of the Khmer Rouge regime.
Alex Biniaz-Harris

PBS special “We’ll Meet Again” features Institute’s role in helping a Holocaust survivor search for a long-lost friend

"We'll Meet Again," the PBS series that featured a Holocaust survivor who came to USC Shoah Foundation in hopes of reconnecting with the family of another Holocaust survivor he met at a displaced-persons camp in the waning days of World War II is now available for streaming.

Newly published book of lost Armenian towns ‘puts Armenians back onto the map of Turkey’

Hailed by some as a milestone in Ottoman Empire scholarship, the new book “Armenians in Ottoman Turkey, 1914” was the product of a manuscript that was donated to the Institute’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research in 2016. It will be a boon for testimony indexers and other researchers at the Institute.

Teaching 'Schindler's List' with Testimony

Wednesday, July 9, 2025 - 02:13 AM PDT

4 p.m. (PST) Nov. 20.

Participants will explore multimedia resources available on IWitness that enhance the teaching of Schindler's List with testimony.

Participants will access best practices for integrating testimony into the classroom to support student's learning before, during and after viewing the film. More information here.

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