Please consider making a gift to the USC Shoah Foundation this holiday season.

Please consider making a gift to the USC Shoah Foundation this holiday season.

When asked what her family means to her in light of surviving the Holocaust, Saba called her children and grandchildren her naches, her "pride and joy." Please consider making a gift to the USC Shoah Foundation this holiday season.

In the aftermath of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel, the USC Shoah Foundation and Tablet Studios announced a partnership to collect, archive, and make available testimonies of survivors, bereaved family members, and rescuers who risked their lives to save others during the assault.

Jennifer Rodgers is a historian of modern Germany and Europe. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania, where she wrote a dissertation on the International Tracing Service (ITS), the first study of this Holocaust-era humanitarian organization.

Elia Groode is a student majoring in Law, History, and Culture and minoring in Consumer Behavior. As an intern at the USC Shoah Foundation, Elia helps to train the dimensions in testimony (DIT) system in both English and Hebrew. She also works on some writing projects, such as curating short biographies for survivors. In addition to her work with the Shoah Foundation, she is the political director for Trojans for Israel and a TAMID strategy consultant.

Soumya Nambi Ganesh is a Metadata Analyst Intern at the USC Shoah Foundation. Primarily tasked with cleaning, tagging and annotating video interview - data for an AI Chatbot that enables virtual interactions with genocide survivors. Prior experience includes Data Analytics and Business Intelligence in technology.

Adriana Reynoso is a Holocaust Indexer for USC Shoah Foundation. She also supports the training program of new indexers for Holocaust and Guatemalan Genocide testimonies.

Tom indexes Holocaust survivor testimonies for the Visual History Archive. He joined the Shoah Foundation in 2022 after earning a MSt in Yiddish Studies from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the University of Pennsylvania. He spent one year in Vienna as a Fulbright Fellow researching his dissertation on Jewish Thought in Franz Werfel’s dramatic works.

She is responsible for inputting and organizing metadata associated with the Foundation’s vast collection of audiovisual testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses.

Hamza Kamil, a junior undergrad in the Interactive Media and Game Design program at USC, has had the privilege of serving as a Media Production Intern at the USC Shoah Foundation.

Harold is a South Carolina State University graduate with a B.A. in Political Science. A career educator with a keen interest in History, Harold introduces new guests to our interactive lobby, which demonstrates the transformative power of Holocaust testimonies delivered through interactive technology as well as artistic expression. Harold also coordinates with facilities and DPS to ensure the maintenance and safety of the work environment. 

Ari Şekeryan received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2018 and has since held research positions at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, California State University–Fresno, the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and the University of Cambridge.

Julie Gruenbaum Fax is a content strategist and creator on our communications team, responsible for institutional storytelling, feature writing, and strategic messaging.

In the moments before Shaylee Atary Winner escaped from her home in the early morning hours of October 7, she saw her husband fighting to close the iron window grates in their safe room over the hand of a terrorist who was reaching in. With a glance, Shaylee and her husband silently agreed she would take their baby and run.

In this November 8, 2023 talk, Dr. Matthias Becker elaborates on his interdisciplinary and transnational project Decoding Antisemitism, which aims to develop tools for recognizing and tracking down various forms of online antisemitism, including its open and covert forms that exist in and circulate both in fringe communities as well as in mainstream discourse.

We are grateful that so many of these survivors, partners, friends, and family members have entrusted us to share their stories for future generations, and for the passion and dedication they brought in support of our mission.