USC Special Panel Discusses Challenges to Holocaust Memory Amidst Rising Antisemitism
Fri, 09/08/2023 - 10:15am
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More than 300 people turned out Wednesday for a public convening at which a high-level panel discussed threats to Holocaust memory caused by growing antisemitism and revisionist campaigns that deny and distort details of the Shoah.
In this video series following the release of the White House’s National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, Dr. Robert J. Williams, our Finci-Viterbi Executive Director Chair, reflects on how the battle against antisemitism is a fight for democratic values.
USC Shoah Foundation Launches Lecture Series on Understanding and Responding to Antisemitism
Tue, 08/29/2023 - 3:45pm
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With anti-Jewish violence and rhetoric on the rise around the world, the USC Shoah Foundation this fall launches a new Antisemitism Lecture Series where leading scholars will guide audiences through the latest research on this persistent and shapeshifting bigotry.
Nimrod "Zigi" Ariav's message to future generations
Nimrod “Zigi” Ariav, 96, Took Up Arms Against the Nazis
Thu, 08/17/2023 - 3:35pm
The USC Shoah Foundation mourns the August 3, 2023 passing of Nimrod “Zigi” Ariav, a Holocaust survivor who fought in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and Israel’s War of Independence before becoming a leader in the Israeli aeronautics industry. He was a longtime supporter of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. He was 96.
Join author Wolf Gruner as he discusses his new book, a highly original and compelling account of individual Jews who resisted Nazi persecution, challenging the traditional portrayal of Jewish passivity during the Holocaust.