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.
USC Shoah Foundation Launches New IWalk at the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan
The USC Shoah Foundation has released a powerful new testimony-based walking tour (IWalk) of the Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex in Yerevan, Armenia, on its IWalk app ( IOS/
For The Living
USC Doheny Library (DML 241)
United States
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.
We Remember György Kun
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.
When the Fragmented becomes the Stitched
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
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.
Neonazism in Transnational Perspective
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
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.
