Leon Leyson remembers working in the Schindler factory as a young boy.
clip, male, Leon Leyson, jewish survivor, schindler jew, Oskar Schindler, childhood / Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Holocaust survivor Leon Leyson passed away this January, but his story of survival as the youngest boy on Oskar Schindler’s “list” will live on in his new memoir, The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible…on Schindler’s List, which was officially released today.
Leon Leyson, book, schindler jew, childhood, memoir / Tuesday, August 27, 2013
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lh, Vera Laska / Wednesday, August 28, 2013
lh, Julia Lentini / Wednesday, August 28, 2013
lh, Nechama Shneorson / Wednesday, August 28, 2013
lh, Alfred Steer / Wednesday, August 28, 2013
lh, Johtje Vos / Wednesday, August 28, 2013
lh, Franz Wohlfahrt / Wednesday, August 28, 2013
lh, Howard Cwick / Wednesday, August 28, 2013
lh, Vera Laska / Wednesday, August 28, 2013
lh, Julia Lentini / Wednesday, August 28, 2013
lh, Nechama Shneorson / Wednesday, August 28, 2013
lh, Alfred Steer / Wednesday, August 28, 2013
lh, Johtje Vos / Wednesday, August 28, 2013
lh, Franz Wohlfahrt / Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Holocaust Museum Houston wrapped up a four-day Echoes and Reflections seminar for Holocaust museum educators today. The seminar focused on how to support the educators' capacity to deploy Echoes and Reflections professional development in their local regions.
education, echoes and reflections, professional development, teacher training / Friday, August 30, 2013
Leo Bach remembers the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. He especially recalls his family’s emotional response upon seeing the bombardment and the movement of German troops in Kraków, Poland, on the first day of war.
clip, male, Leo Bach, Invasion of Poland, Sept 1 1939 / Friday, August 30, 2013
Leticia Villasenor has recently begun a 2013 summer student fellowship at USC Shoah Foundation. Villasenor is working toward her PhD in French from USC, and holds a master’s in international studies at the University of Denver and a bachelor’s in French and international relations at USC. She also interned at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris and has just returned from a year abroad, also in Paris. What research are you doing at USC Shoah Foundation?
/ Monday, August 12, 2013
Gregory Irwin ’14, an international relations major with a minor in screenwriting, has been an intern at USC Shoah Foundation since his sophomore year. He was inspired to get involved by the stories his grandmothers have told him about their experiences during the Holocaust.
Greg Irwin, intern / Monday, August 19, 2013
Kia Hays recently joined the research and documentation staff at USC Shoah Foundation as project specialist. She received a bachelor’s in English and international relations at Hawaii Pacific University in 2010 and a master’s in public diplomacy from the USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism in May 2013. Hays was the associate editor for the online publication PDiN Monitor at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, and the editor-in-chief of the academic journal Public Diplomacy Magazine.
/ Monday, August 26, 2013
Maayan Roitfarb, a master’s candidate in law and diplomacy at Tufts University, is finishing up her position as a 2013 summer research fellow and intern at USC Shoah Foundation. During her fellowship, she conducted research for her master’s thesis about forced migration, relocation and deportation using the Visual History Archive (VHA), transcribed Hebrew sonderkommando testimony, completed a survey of 140 VHA testimonies concerning cultural resistance in the camps, and conducted background research on scholarly discussions of history, memory and emotions.
maayan roitfarb, research fellow, tufts / Tuesday, August 6, 2013

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