يعود وجود المدينة إلى القرن الثاني عشر. بعد انقسام بولندا سنة 1772، ضُمّت المدينة إلى الامبراطورية النمساوية، ثم أُعِيدتْ إلى بولندا في فترة متأخرة بعد نهاية الحرب العالمية الأولى. خلال تلك الفترة، أُسوشم أصبحت مركزا صناعيا وملتقى طرق قطارات. كان عدد سكانها من اليهود عام 1921، أربعة آلاف وتسع مائة وخمسين. وعندما اندلعت الحرب العالمية الثانية كان عدد اليهود في المدينة ثمانية آلاف وأكثر من نصف كجموع السكان. احتلت المدينة في بداية الحرب العالمية الثانية وفي تشرين الأول (أكتوبر) عام 1939 ضُمّت إلى ألمانيا العظمى.

Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) Forum, Room 450USC Shoah Foundation's 2013-2014 Institute Scholar, Dr. Douglas Greenberg, will looks at the lives of Jews before, during, and after the Holocaust in the Wolyn district of modern Ukraine.

Agnes Adachi remembers attending the Olympic Games in Berlin 1936; and describes what it was like to watch Jesse Owens compete and win the gold medal. She recalls that the anti-Jewish restrictions and propaganda had been eased at the time because of the international presence in Germany.

The first in-classroom pilot of IWitness in Rwanda will take place next week at Kagarama Secondary School in Kigali.

He just graduated from high school last year, but Manuel Müller has already begun his first full-time job as USC Shoah Foundation’s 2014 Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service intern.

Former USC Shoah Foundation executive director Douglas Greenberg has begun a two-month residency at USC Shoah Foundation as part of his 2013-2014 Institute Fellowship.

USC Doheny Memorial Library (DML), Room 240.The USC Shoah Foundation together with the USC Gould School of Law International Human Rights Clinic, USC Center for International Studies, the USC Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics, and USC Libraries, proudly presents an evening with distinguished guest Ms. Zainab Hawa Bangura, United Nations Undersecretary-General and Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict.  

Sarah Miller remembers fleeing Nazi controlled France and crossing the border into Switzerland in 1944.

I did not sleep well last night. It was not the kind of sleeplessness brought on by jet lag, stress or workload. It is best described as a kind of numbness that leaves one physically discharged, emotionally drained and deeply troubled. I just completed one the most sedentary days I’ve had in months, just sitting in a chair listening to one of the most intelligent, sophisticated, gentle, yet strong people I know tell me about his life.

Sarah Miller gave testimony to the USC Shoah Foundation in 1997 about her family’s experiences hiding in France and Switzerland during the Holocaust – but she wasn’t finished telling her story just yet.

Professors from across the University of Southern California will come together for a roundtable discussion about the effect of new technologies on humanities classrooms, organized by USC Shoah Foundation and the USC Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics.

Dieses Video ist ein herunterladbarer Zusammenschnitt von mehreren Zeitzeugen-Interviews des USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archivs, welche mit jüdischen Überlebenden geführt wurden, die in der polnischen Stadt Oświęcim geboren wurden und aufgewachsen sind. Heute kennt man Oświęcim als eine Stadt, die von dem Lagerkomplex Auschwitz gezeichnet ist.

Die Existenz der Stadt geht mindestens auf das 12. Jahrhundert zurück. Im Zuge der Teilung Polens im Jahr 1772 wurde die Stadt in die österreichische Habsburgermonarchie integriert und erst nach dem Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges wieder ein Teil Polens. In dieser Zeit wurde Oświęcim zu einem Industriezentrum und einem wichtigen Eisenbahnknotenpunkt. Im Jahr 1921 lebten in Oświęcim 4.950 Juden, wobei die Anzahl bis zu dem Beginn des Zweiten Weltkrieges auf 8.000 anstieg, wodurch zu dieser Zeit mehr als die Hälfte der Bevölkerung Oświęcims jüdisch war. Direkt nach dem Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkrieges wurde Oświęcim von deutschen Truppen okkupiert und im Oktober 1939 an das Großdeutsche Reich angeschlossen.

此可下载影片剪辑自南加州大学纳粹浩劫基金会视觉历史档案的犹太人大屠杀惨案幸存者的见证影片，这些幸存者在波兰的奥斯威辛市（Oświęcim）出生和长大，如今该城市因纳粹德国占领统治期间在该地建立奥斯威辛（Auschwitz）集中营而恶名昭彰。在设立奥斯威辛集中营之前，奥斯威辛市原本拥有一个繁荣多元的犹太小区。影片透过在该地长大的人，以第一人称叙述的方式，带领观众一窥该镇历史中经常被忽略的元素。见证影片提供有关此主题的内容。播放时间：28分钟。

这个城市存在的历史至少可以回溯到 12 世纪。继波兰于 1772 年被瓜分后，该市便遭奥地利哈布斯堡王朝（Habsburg Austrian Empire）吞并，直到第一次世界大战结束后才回归波兰统治。在那段期间，奥斯威辛市成为工业中心和重要的铁路枢纽。犹太人口在 1921 年为 4,950 人。二次世界大战前夕，该市约有 8,000 名犹太人，占波兰全部犹太人口的半数以上。奥斯威辛在二次世界大战一开始时即遭到占领。到了 1939 年 10 月，该市被大德意志（Greater Germany）吞并。

The new book, published today, take readers deep into the making of Schindler’s List and the USC Shoah Foundation.

Students and faculty have three unique and exciting opportunities to get involved with USC Shoah Foundation beginning this summer.

Peter Berczi began working as a librarian at Budapest's Central European University in 2009 –the same year that CEU became a Visual History Archive Access site. But more and more, he says, he thinks this coincidence was meant to be. Berczi helps professors at CEU find testimonies to use in their courses and conducts sessions to teach their students how to use the archive. He also conducts Visual History Archive trainings for local secondary educators as part of the Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century professional development program.

President Paul Kagame visited USC Shoah Foundation on Wednesday to learn more about the Institute’s work linking testimony, technology and education.

George and Giselle Weiss are both child survivors and natives of Belgium. George describes when he first met Giselle after he returned to Belgium from his military service in the Israel. Giselle explains how her grandmother disapproved of their romance because George was not orthodox. In 1955 George and Giselle married in Belgium and moved to the United States. February 13 2014 was George and Giselle’s 59th wedding anniversary.

Twenty years since its founding, the USC Shoah Foundation maintains a vibrant presence in the Czech Republic to educate the next generation about genocide and tolerance through the use of its Holocaust survivor testimonies.