April 03, 2025 @ 6:30 pm - April 03, 2025 @ 8:30 pm
In honor of Armenian Heritage Month, join us for a conversation with grandchildren of Armenian Genocide survivors and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.
Details:
Start: April 03, 2025 / 6:30 PM
End: April 03, 2025 / 8:30 PM
Where:
Holocaust Museum Los Angeles , Los Angeles , CA
Venue:
Holocaust Museum Los Angeles
100 The Grove Dr, Los Angeles , CA 90036, United States
March 12, 2025 @ 10:00 am - March 12, 2025 @ 1:00 pm
Join us in person for an exclusive screening of For the Living and a discussion with the USC Shoah Foundation Senior Director of Programs, Dr. Catherine Clark, and Executive Producer of the film, Melinda Goldrich.
For the Living is the story of 250 cyclists who travel to Poland and retrace the liberation path of Holocaust survivor Marcel Zielinski from Auschwitz-Birkenau to Kraków. Their 60-mile odyssey inspires an urgent examination of humanity's equally perilous journey from dehumanization to compassion.
Call for Applications: Azrieli Teaching Fellowship for Excellence in Testimony-Based Pedagogy, 2025-2026
Mon, 03/03/2025 - 4:26pm
The Education Division of the USC Shoah Foundation—The Institute for Visual History and Education invites applications for their inaugural Azrieli Teaching Fellowship for Excellence in Testimony-based Pedagogy for the 2025-2026 academic year.
We Remember György Kun
Wed, 02/12/2025 - 4:13pm
We are saddened to learn of the passing of György Kun, who gave his testimony in October 1999 in Budapest, Hungary. His daughter, Andrea Szonyis, an educator and former colleague at the USC Shoah Foundation, authored a story in the series "Voices from the Archive” about her father.
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When the Fragmented becomes the Stitched
Engaging Students through Research
March 27, 2025 @ 1:00 pm
In a follow up to her inaugural lecture series, Mélanie Péron will discuss how she and her students at the University of Pennsylvania drew upon a wealth of different sources such as diaries and archives to reconstruct the individual stories of Jewish children and their families in occupied France before they were reduced to a typed line on a deportation list and the importance of using sources such as diaries and video testimonies to teach about the Shoah despite the inexorable disappearance of the last remaining witnesses.
USC Shoah Foundation Appoints Inaugural Director of Countering Antisemitism Laboratory
Tue, 02/11/2025 - 10:39am
LOS ANGELES, CA (Feb. 11, 2025) — The USC Shoah Foundation announced the appointment of Dr. Brian Hughes as the inaugural Director of its Countering Antisemitism Laboratory, marking a significant expansion of the institute's mission to combat hatred through research, education and action.
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Neonazism in Transnational Perspective
March 13, 2025 @ 11:00 am
Join us as Professors Michelle Lynn Kahn and Steven J. from the University of Southern California’s Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life, explore the lingering international support for Nazism post World War II.
As Survivors Dwindle, We Must Rethink How to Teach the Holocaust
With antisemitism, intolerance and denialism on the rise, we must remember the victims – and the dangers of nationalism and paranoid conspiracies.
Fri, 02/07/2025 - 2:30pm
By:
The Following Op-Ed was published in U.S. News by the USC Shoah Foundation's Finci-Viterbi Executive Director, Robert J. Williams, Ph.D.
January 27, 2025
As we commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day today and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, we find ourselves at a critical juncture in history.
Understanding the experiences of survivors and victims builds an understanding of who these individuals were before, during and, for the few, after the Holocaust. Learning their stories can also introduce awareness of how intertwined our fates can be.
Auschwitz Museum prepares for 80th anniversary of liberation
Robert J. Williams, the Finci-Viterbi executive director of the USC Shoah Foundation, tells Axios that the commemoration provides a venue for survivors to share their voices and "really tell us the world that they want to create before the last of them leave us."
