Visualizing the Past, a Lesson of Today


Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - 11:47 AM PDT
Join USC Shoah Foundation and The Leichtag Foundation for a dialogue between film producers and scholars, Konstantin Fam, Clint Burkett, Alan Markowitz, Kori Street and Jacqueline S. Gmach

Who is The Memory Generation?


The pages of my copy of The Giver are totally worn. The cover has been folded and there are subsequent pages with the same type of tear. On the bottom right corner is an advertisement for a special low price of $2.99 and in the upper right corner there is the embedded medal of the John Newbery Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes in literature.
Rachael Cerrotti, Storyteller in Residence
Rachael Cerrotti is an award winning author, producer and documentary storyteller as well as the inaugural Storyteller in Residence for USC Shoah Foundation. She is the granddaughter behind 'We Share The Same Sky' and the host of 'The Memory Generation' podcast. Learn more at www.rachaelcerrotti.com.

The Holocaust as a Global Archetype? The Position of the Jewish Genocide in Rwanda’s National Memory Culture


Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - 11:47 AM PDT

A public lecture by Charlotte Kiechel (Williams College)
2021-2022 USC Shoah Foundation Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies
(Join us in person for this lecture or attend virtually on Zoom)

Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the USC Shoah Foundation

The Holocaust as a global archetype?


Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - 11:47 AM PDT

In the wake of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda, government officials, memory workers, and human rights activists have all deployed a litany of Holocaust references — from discussions of “Never Again” to allusions to Primo Levi’s “grey zone.” Drawing upon research conducted with testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, Charlotte Kiechel (Visiting Assistant Professor, Williams College) will illuminate the global uses of Holocaust memory by examining Rwandan governmental forces use of Holocaust references.

 

Oskar Schindler’s Factory Added to USC Shoah Foundation IWalk App


USC Shoah Foundation with its partner the Schindler’s Ark Foundation has added a tour of Oskar Schindler’s former factory in what is now the Czech Republic to its mobile IWalk application, enabling smartphone users to explore the site where the German businessman sheltered more than 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.