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The View commemorates Yom HaShoah


In this 2025 segment for Yom HaShoah, co-host Whoopi Goldberg recognizes the work of the USC Shoah Foundation 

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The Institute in the news

USC Today,

The event commemorating Yom HaShoah explored the power of storytelling to educate, connect and inspire social change.

USC Today,

USC Shoah Foundation and the Big Ten Conference provide Trojans with the opportunity to visit historical sites of the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement.

The Washington Post,

Recently, 80 years after the men first crossed paths, their lives intersected once again — though this time in Los Angeles, where they both live. Their reunion was arranged by the USC Shoah Foundation, with the goal of bringing together a survivor and a liberator whose lives converged amid the horrors of the war.

NewsNation,

“AI is not neutral or impartial.” Dr. Brian Hughes, director of the USC Shoah Foundation Countering Antisemitism Lab, appears on a segment looking at the issue of the chatbot's recent antisemitic posts. He appears at the 2:15 minute mark in the video.

NPR,

Now, both approaching 100 years old, Roth and Moran met to share their stories with the USC Shoah Foundation, which maintains the largest audiovisual archive of Holocaust survivor and witness testimonies.