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“To save Jews and keep the Nazis away, these doctors invented a fake infectious disease”

Jewish Telegraphic Agency, August 12, 2022

For interviews with the others featured in the film, Edwards utilized the USC Shoah Foundation, which has collected and archived interviews with more than 55,000 testimonies now arrived at the University of Southern California. 

“Linguist Isaac Bleaman receives National Science Foundation award to study language of Holocaust survivors”

Forward, July 25, 2022

The five-year $470,000 grant will support research that documents the Yiddish language as it was spoken by survivors who were interviewed for the Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation, an organization that was founded by film director Steven Spielberg in 1994.

“Yeshiva University acquires Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive”

Jewish News Syndicate, June 14, 2022

Along with Holocaust education, it can help people “understand the persistent threat of genocide around the world,” says Paul Glassman, director of scholarly and cultural resources at Yeshiva University.

“Remembering Through Music: An Interview with Badema Pitic”

The Society Pages, May 5, 2022

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the UMN School of Music had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Badema Pitic in March for a talk titled “Remembering Through Music: The Srebrenica Genocide in Bosnian izvorna Songs.” I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Pitic about her research on music, transitional justice, and reconciliation in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina.

“We’re losing the last generation of Holocaust survivors. Can AI keep their stories alive?”

NPR 1A, April 26, 2022

As of 2020, only 400,000 Holocaust survivors were still alive. Archivists, historians, and family members are working to capture their stories before they’re gone. The University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation ois taking recording these survivor testimonies one step further.

“The Next Generation”

Tablet Magazine, April 26, 2022

Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors continue to share their families’ stories.

“Winnipeg siblings add voices to Holocaust remembrance”

The Winnipeg Free Press, April 26, 2022

One of the oldest living groups of Holocaust survivor siblings have called Winnipeg home for decades. Now, they are sharing their stories, via the Last Chance Testimony Collection, part of the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive.

“Museums turn to immersive tech to preserve the stories of aging Holocaust survivors”

National Public Radio, April 10, 2022

Most Holocaust survivors are in their 80s or 90s. With every year, fewer remain to tell us their stories. So museums and archives are using advanced technologies to preserve their testimonies and introduce them to new generations.

“Inside Starling Lab, a moonshot project to preserve the world’s most important information”

Fast Company, March 30, 2022

The foundation’s move to the blockchain is in partnership with Starling Lab, a nonprofit academic research center that’s on a mission to use decentralized ledgers to help preserve historical data of importance to humanity. Its lofty goal is to restore integrity both to data and to the internet itself—starting with some of the most precious information we have.

“Holocaust stories from Florida added to global Shoah Foundation archives”

Miami Herald, February 18, 2022

More than 2,300 testimonies collected by the Holocaust Documentation & Education Center in Dania Beach are now being added to Steven Spielberg’s USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive.

“Imagery and remembrance: photos and artworks that define the Holocaust”

USC News, January 27, 2022

USC experts consider the importance of these photographs and paintings — bringing immediacy to history and conveying the human cost.

“Best friends at 9, they were separated when they fled the Nazis. Now, 82 years later, they finally hugged again.”

The Washington Post, November 24, 2021

The last time Grebenschikoff saw Ana María Wahrenberg was in the spring of 1939, when they were 9 years old. They shared a tearful hug in a Berlin schoolyard before their families were forced to flee the country and the Nazis on the cusp of World War II.They both thought that would be their final hug. But on Nov. 5, after more than eight decades apart, the two women — now 91 years old — embraced once again.

“U.S. Holocaust Museums Are Updating Content and Context”

New York Times, October 8, 2021

Steven Spielberg’s U.S.C. Shoah Foundation, founded in 1994 to record survivors’ stories, is at the forefront of the evolution. In a 2018 New York Times article, Spielberg described the need to broaden the focus, saying: “The presence of hate has become taken for granted. We are not doing enough to counter it.”

“The Best Holocaust Movie You Haven’t Been Able to See—Yet”

Mother Jones, September 9, 2021

At the start of 2020, the film was ready to be released in theaters, but the pandemic intervened, and The Survivor languished as the best Holocaust film that moviegoers couldn’t see. It’s now finally scheduled to have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 13,  but its future remains uncertain.

“Holocaust Museum LA reopens with new virtual installation featuring Auschwitz survivor”

Los Angeles Times, August 2, 2021

“The holographic likeness of Holocaust survivor Renee Firestone, 97, is part of a new exhibit at the Holocaust Museum Los Angeles, which reopens on Saturday more than a year after the pandemic forced museum doors closed.”

“Harvard Event Highlights Power of Stories to Combat Hate”

Jewish Journal, April 28, 2021

The April 27 event was initiated to celebrate Harvard making the Shoah Foundation’s visual history archive available to its community.

“Two best friends who fled Nazi Germany reunited after 82 years”

ABC Action News, April 16, 2021

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A St. Pete woman is reunited with her best friend after fleeing Nazi Germany more than 80 years ago.

“Two best friends separated by the Holocaust as children reunited 82 years later”

CBS News, March 11, 2021

More than 80 years ago, two young girls in Germany were separated by the Holocaust. The friends said their goodbyes and fled from the Nazis. Betty Grebenschikoff and her family moved to Shanghai, China, and then the United States. Her friend Annemarie Wahrenberg moved to Chile. The two friends never saw each other again — until a recent, emotional reunion.

“Best friends separated in the Holocaust just reunited. They were ‘laughing like they were still 9 years old,’ family said.”

The Washington Post, March 9, 2021

Every Sunday, Betty Grebenschikoff and Ana María Wahrenberg have a scheduled phone call. They often lose track of time talking, as best friends tend to do. The weekly calls are only a recent ritual. In fact, just four months ago, both women believed the other had died in the Holocaust.

“Deepfake is the future of content creation”

BBC News, March 8, 2021

"But we shouldn't have an outright ban on deepfakes for satire or freedom of expression. And the growing commercial use of the technology is very promising, such as turning movies into different languages, or creating engaging educational videos," says Professor Sandra Wachter, a senior research fellow in AI at Oxford University. One such educational use of AI-generated videos is at the University of Southern California's Shoah Foundation, which houses more than 55,000 video testimonies from Holocaust survivors.

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