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Twenty student athletes traveled to Auschwitz, and met with U.S. special envoy Deborah Lipstadt in Washington.
Supported by $300,000 in grants, largely from the Myron and Alayne Meilman Family Foundation, the project is being shaped by technology experts from the USC Shoah Foundation in addition to the USC Libraries.
Debates about terms are a luxury for times of peace. The future of our democracy requires that we understand all forms of antisemitism and emphasize unequivocally that it has no place in America.
In an interview with DW, Robert Williams also urged against the misuse of the term "genocide" and called for a broader discussion on what constitutes antisemitism.
"I hope the Jewish diaspora realizes," says [USC Shoah Foundation executive director Dr. Robert] Williams, "that there are allies at this moment and there is always an opportunity to turn the tide."
Steven Spielberg was at USC to honor Holocaust survivors.