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The Institute hosts winners of Chapman University’s 20th Annual Holocaust Art and Writing Contest

The USC Shoah Foundation hosted winners of the 20th Annual Holocaust Art and Writing Contest on Monday, June 24.

Participants were asked to create artistic or written responses to Holocaust survivor testimony from IWitness or The 1939 Society’s archives, in the form of poetry, prose, artwork or short film.

Oral history, testimonies of Jewish soldiers who fought in the Soviet Army during World War II added to Visual History Archive

USC Shoah Foundation, Blavatnik Archive partner on adding soldiers’ narratives to searchable database. The project expands focus on veterans discussing their daily lives, Jewish experience before and during WWII.

Our 2018 Year in Review

IWitness Spotlight: Schindler’s List

Coinciding with the 25th anniversary and recent rerelease of “Schindler’s List,” USC Shoah Foundation has produced a suite of learning activities connected to the film. The engaging activities encourage critical thinking; all feature clips of testimony from Holocaust survivors who were saved by Oskar Schindler.

The Stories We Tell: Narratives of Sexual Violence and Concepts of Gender in Post-Genocide Societies

Public lecture by Virginia Bullington (USC undergraduate, Narrative Studies)

In Search of the Drowned in the Words of the Saved: Testimonial Fragments of the Holocaust

Public lecture by Gabór Tóth (University of Oxford, History)

2018-2019 Center Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Partnership will expand the reach of Institute’s educational materials on Armenian Genocide

USC Shoah Foundation is joining forces with The Genocide Education Project, which is dedicated to bringing curriculum about the World War I-era Armenian Genocide into high schools across the United States.

Charlotte McKern

Charlotte McKern, who survived the Holocaust by taking refuge in Shanghai, shares the story of how she met her husband, Robert Grosslight, a physician who’d been released from the Dachau concentration camp in Germany to migrate to Shanghai.

Holocaust survivor celebrates major milestone

Holocaust Museum Houston opens award-winning ‘Dimensions in Testimony’ exhibit featuring Houston-area Holocaust Survivor William J. Morgan

Bill Morgan, now 93 years old, is a survivor of the Stanislawow Ghetto. After obtaining a birth certificate from a Polish Christian, he escaped the ghetto and found work as a farmhand in Ukraine. Museum audiences will be able to ask questions of Morgan about his life experiences and hear his pre-recorded responses in real time.