Hosted by USC Shoah Foundation Executive Committee member Trudy Elbaum Gottesman, join moderator Finci-Viterbi Executive Director Stephen D. Smith in an intimate conversation with journalist Rachael Cerrotti, whose grandmother Hana, a Holocaust survivor, is the subject of her podcast series We Share The Same Sky, recognized by the Huffington Post as one of the top recommended podcasts of 2019.
27 May 6:00PM EDT | 3:00PM PDT | 8:00AM AEST 28 May
In this graduate seminar in psychology, students learned how to apply the theories and research from social and personality psychology to real world situations in order to gain a better understanding about how otherwise psychologically healthy individuals cope with psychological problems and distress caused by uncontrollable situations. In addition, they learned how social and personality processes impact clinical and social problems, such as depression and genocide.
USC Shoah Foundation mourns the loss of Luke Holland who passed away this week, a transformative figure in the field of historical documentation and a dear friend of the Institute. “Luke guided us all to face our pasts—to face our fears—as pathway to living a more informed, peaceful life,” said Stephen Smith, Finci-Viterbi Executive Director of USC Shoah Foundation.
Two promising USC scholars – undergraduate student Lucy Sun and graduate student Rachel Zaretsky -- will share the Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship for Summer 2020.
The Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship provides support for USC students at any academic level and from any discipline to conduct a month of research in residence at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research focusing on testimonies of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive (VHA) and/or other related USC resources and collections.
Malmö Museums invites you to the grand opening of Speaking Memories — The Last Witnesses of the Holocaust on June 11, 2020 at 6:00 PM GMT+2 (9:00 AM PDT) at Slottsholmen, Malmö Museums
Participants include:
“You can’t just close your eyes and pretend that the history goes away,” says Mickey Shapiro the eldest son of two Holocaust survivors who just finished a four-year-long journey to create a film about his mother’s story. “I am stuck with this for life, but I think it makes me more motivated. When you hear a story like that from your parents, you want to make things better.”
“You can’t just close your eyes and pretend that the history goes away,” says Mickey Shapiro the eldest son of two Holocaust survivors who just finished a four-year-long journey to create a film about his mother’s story. “I am stuck with this for life, but I think it makes me more motivated. When you hear a story like that from your parents, you want to make things better.”