Spring Release adds Tutsi, Rohingya, and "Last Chance" Testimonies

By: Julie Gruenbaum Fax

Pictured: Holocaust survivor Elly Gotz who gave his testimony to the Azrieli Foundation in 2018. His interview is one of 31 new testimonies from the Azrieli Foundation that have been indexed and catalogued in the Visual History Archive. This week’s semi-annual VHA release adds 128 new testimonies to the 55,000-strong collection. All the updated testimonies are available at 163 access sites worldwide.
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Julie Gruenbaum Fax is a content strategist and writer for the USC Shoah Foundation. She was a senior writer and editor at the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles and has co-authored six personal history books. She is currently writing a book about her grandmother’s Holocaust experience.

Julie Gruenbaum Fax is a content strategist and writer for the USC Shoah Foundation. She was a senior writer and editor at the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles and has co-authored six personal history books. She is currently writing a book about her grandmother’s Holocaust experience.

What is Home? A Conversation

Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - 10:11 AM PDT

Twenty-six years after the Genocide Against the Tutsi, please join Finci-Viterbi Executive Director Stephen D. Smith as he discusses concepts of home with genocide survivor Edith Umugiraneza. Stephen Smith will be joined by Executive Director of Aegis Trust Freddy Mutanguha and Rwandan Ambassador to the United States Mathilda Mukantabana.  

What testimonies teach us: Reflections from 2019-2020 Shapiro Scholar Peter Hayes

By: Peter Hayes

I much enjoyed my stay at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research in early March, just before the pandemic turned all of our lives upside down. Meeting the wonderful members of the staff and seeing how much the operations of both the Foundation and the Center have grown since my last visit in 2014 were remarkable experiences.

Peter Hayes
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