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Neonazism in Transnational Perspective

March 13, 2025 @ 11:00 am
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.
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Start: March 13, 2025 / 11:00 AM

As Survivors Dwindle, We Must Rethink How to Teach the Holocaust

With antisemitism, intolerance and denialism on the rise, we must remember the victims – and the dangers of nationalism and paranoid conspiracies.

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.

Auschwitz Museum prepares for 80th anniversary of liberation

Robert J. Williams, the Finci-Viterbi executive director of the USC Shoah Foundation, tells Axios that the commemoration provides a venue for survivors to share their voices and "really tell us the world that they want to create before the last of them leave us."

Morris Dancyger on Liberation

USC Shoah Foundation Commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day

80th Anniversary of Auschwitz-Birkenau Liberation Honors Victims and Survivors

On January 27, 1945, Allied Forces liberated the camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Each year on this anniversary, the world observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a solemn occasion for us all to affirm our commitment to Holocaust remembrance and education and to a world that respects and knows the histories of the victims and survivors of this terrible crime. 

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Fighting antisemitism and preserving the memory of the Holocaust: advances in Greece and Europe?

February 02, 2025 @ 4:00 pm
Please join the USC Shoah Foundation and our partners at UCLA as we hear from Dr. Leon Saltiel who will focus on the challenges of grappling with the past and with current antisemitism.
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Start: February 02, 2025 / 4:00 PM
William McKinney on Community
Daniel and Marisa Klass USC Shoah Foundation Lecture Series
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Jewish Languages Today

Endangered, Surviving, and Thriving

February 21, 2025 @ 12:30 pm
Join Dr. Sarah Bunin Benor as she discusses the historical events that have led to major changes in the linguistic profile of Jewish communities around the world.
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Start: February 21, 2025 / 12:30 PM
The Stanley D. Ginsburg USC Shoah Foundation Lecture Series
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‘How Can They Find You If You Don’t Exist?’

Strategies of Concealment Among Jewish Refugees to Japan

February 13, 2025 @ 12:00 pm
Join us for a talk examining the strategies of concealment described in the USC Shoah Foundation testimonies of Jewish refugees who made the journey to Japan to escape Nazi persecution in the early 1940s.
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Start: February 13, 2025 / 12:00 PM

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