#BeginsWithMe - Changing the world through testimony


If you’ve ever watched genocide survivor testimony from the Visual History Archive and it spurned you to wonder what you can do to help prevent acts of intolerance and inhumanity, USC Shoah Foundation has an opportunity for you this holiday season.

To observe Giving Tuesday, an annual day of philanthropy on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, USC Shoah Foundation again launched its social media campaign  #BeginsWithMe.

Deanna Hendrick

Call for Applications: 2016-2017 Greenberg Research Fellowship for PhD Candidates


The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites research proposals from advanced standing Ph.D. candidates for its 2016-2017 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellowship. The fellowship provides $4,000 support for dissertation research focused on testimony from the Visual History Archive.

Maximilian Strnad Lecture (Summary)


Maximilian Strnad, a young German scholar who is currently a fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s research center, gave a public lecture at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research focusing on the experiences of the last remaining Jews under the German Reich — intermarried Jews.