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Dr. Dan Leshem on Hitler Letter Exhibited at Museum of Tolerance

First evidence of Hitler's anti-Semitism.

Award-Winning Filmmaker Michael Apted to Give Keynote Address at USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Student Voices Master Class Presented by HBO

In-depth introduction to video testimonies.

Spell Your Name Screening at the Ukrainian Cinema Club in Berlin

Honoring the 70th anniversary of the Babi Yar tragedy, the Ukrainian Cinema Club in Berlin presented a screening of Spell Your Name, a documentary film by Sergey Bukovsky, co-produced by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. The screening was followed by a discussion with Cristoph Filinger, a journalist and a freelancer at the American Jewish Committee office in Berlin. Leonid Zozovskii, an Institute-interviewed survivor who lived through the Holocaust under false identity in Zelenchukskaia (Ordzhonikidze, Russia, then USSR), attended the screening.

Wolf Gruner Becomes First Senior Fellow

USC Professor Researching Forms of Jewish Defiance

Italian-Language Memories of the Holocaust

Italy’s National Archives to Launch Web Portal to Survivor Testimonies

Research fellow from Tel Aviv University lectures at the Institute

Hannah Pollin-Galay discusses how culture and language inform Holocaust testimony

Nazi hunter for U.S. Dept of Justice speaks at USC

Doctoral student from Tel Aviv University becomes Institute's first research fellow

Hannah Pollin-Galay to study how culture and language inform Holocaust testimony

Institute trains teachers in Czech Republic

Workshops highlight testimonies of local historical importance

Martin Šmok, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Senior International Program Consultant, gave presentations at a training event for teachers organized by Pant o.s. The event took place at the Summer School of Modern History in Ostrava, Czech Republic on August 29 and 30.

Stephen D. Smith lectures in Ukraine on "Testimony in an Age of Violent Ideologies"

On September 8, Stephen D. Smith, Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, gave a lecture, titled "The Power of Words: Testimony in an Age of Violent Ideologies," and demonstrated the Visual History Archive at the Interdisciplinary Judaic Studies Program of the National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (view photos).  Smith founded the UK Holocaust Centre in Nottinghamshire, England, and cofounded the Aegis Trust for the prevention of crimes against humanity and genocide.