The research team of Glenn Fox, Jonas Kaplan, Hanna Damasio and Antonio Damasio has revealed its findings in the paper “Neural correlates of gratitude,” now published in the academic journal Frontiers in Psychology.

Tobi Abelsky recalls two times she and her sister were allowed to stay together after selections at Auschwitz. She and her sister remain grateful for one Nazi who said that because they were sisters, they should be together, and thus saved her sister's life.

Tsilah Zak"haym lived in the Naliboki Forest in Poland with the Bielski Partisans, a Jewish resistance group. She says that in the evenings the camp would sing songs together -- especially when they were hungry and during Jewish holidays.

USC Shoah Foundation is saddened to learn of the passing of Johnny Strange, a record-holding adventurer and supporter of USC Shoah Foundation.

Muscologist Matt Lawson recently submitted his PhD thesis, focussing on the music used in German depictions of the Holocaust on screen. His early research has been disseminated at conferences across the UK, and also at international events in Australia, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Germany and the USA. He completed his undergraduate honours degree in Music at Huddersfield in 2009, and his MA with distinction from the University of York (2012). He was also a postgraduate participant in a HEA collaborative project between Edge Hill University and the University of Roehampton.

When I commenced my PhD journey three years ago at Edge Hill University in northern England, I had little idea of where the journey would take me, both literally and figuratively.

Sandya Maulana’s presentation at the symposium is a chance to discuss an issue from his native Indonesia that has yet to be discussed even in Indonesia itself.

USC Shoah Foundation will return to China, where it has collected some of its newest testimonies, to participate in University of Southern California’s Global Conference 2015.

Holocaust survivor Edith Meyer, mother of NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Ron Meyer, gives her advice for future generations.

The hero of Alex Teplish’s graphic novel Survivor: Aron’s Story isn’t a crime-fighter or science-fiction creature – it’s his grandfather, Holocaust survivor Aron Rabinovich.

Auschwitz: The Past is Present helped Ingrid Alexovics feel connected to teachers all over the world who share her passion for Holocaust education. But it also reminded her how much work is still to be done.

Not everyone in Poland has made it to Warsaw to visit POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. But this summer, the museum came to them.

Nelly Cesana remembers happy times with her family in Warsaw before the war.

Aron Rabinovich describes how he helped guard the "Polizei," who had collaborated with the Nazis, after he was liberated and gave testimony about the crimes they had perpetrated against him and his family.

Robert J. Aumann remembers the phone call notifying him he won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2005. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to the understanding of conflict through game-theory analysis at the University of Jerusalem in Israel.

Jack Adler remembers arriving to Ellis Island and decribes the first time he earned American currency.

A collection of clips featuring Holocaust survivor Paula Lebovics speaking about her experiences before, during, and after World War II, including the conditions she had to undergo as a child at Auschwitz.

Au sens le plus basique et le plus littéral, un itinéraire signifie un déplacement d’un point à un autre. Ce déplacement peut être physique, comme cela fut le cas pour des milliers de personnes, avant, pendant et après l’Holocauste, mais il peut aussi être métaphorique, émotionnel, psychologique… Les événements de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et l’Holocauste ont conduit les individus à emprunter différents types d’itinéraires, et leurs conséquences ont plongé le monde dans un abîme de réflexion, toujours actuel, autour du « plus jamais ça ».

Forty-eight testimony clips have been added to the popular “Watch” page on IWitness.

The conference included a night of films, an academic symposium and a concert, all exploring music as it has been used as a form of resistance to genocides throughout history.

Jehovah's Witness survivor Simone Maria Liebster describes her last night with her mother in a hotel before her mother had to leave her at a Jehovah's Witness re-education center in Germany. They prayed and sang together.

Joseph Horn describes the Auschwitz camp orchestra, which was made up of some of the best musicians in Europe. He distinctly remembers that the orchestra's concerts every Sunday were scheduled so the local townspeople could come into the camp after church and attend the concert. 

Musicologist Matt Lawson came to “Singing in the Lion’s Mouth: Music as Resistance to Genocide” conference hoping for feedback on one of his newest research ideas, and he wasn’t disappointed.

A few weeks ago, USC Student Body President Rini Sampath posted on her Facebook page about incidents of hatred and intolerance on campus. A Saturday night after a USC football game, Sampath had been walking down USC’s Fraternity Row when a man leaned out his frat house window and hurled a racial epithet and a beverage cup at her.

Vera Laska describes how, as a teenager, she helped Jews and French political prisoners cross the mountains from Slovakia into Hungary. This clip is part of the new Facing History and Ourselves IWitness activity Choosing to Rescue.

Dead Loop, a new book written by Holocaust survivor Moris Bronshteyn, was born out of a promise he made to the other survivors he interviewed for USC Shoah Foundation.

USC Shoah Foundation and Facing History and Ourselves have established a partnership in order to develop meaningful and engaging learning resources centered on Holocaust survivor testimonies.

Bronia Furst talks about being reunited with her family in the concentration camp in Pechora, Soviet Union. She says that her daily life was terrible because the camp was like a starvation camp and she would watch dead bodies be taken from the barracks everyday. Everyone continuously lived in fear.

Laura Pritchard Dobrin, an IWitness Teaching Fellow and educator who participated in Auschwitz: The Past is Present, gave a presentation about IWitness at the Virginia Association of Teachers of English (VATE) 2015 Annual Conference last weekend.

Liesl Loeb describes how her home was attacked during Kristallnacht. Her family's non-Jewish tenant hid the family upstairs and they listened as vandals destroyed the entire first floor of their house. This clip is part of the new IWitness activity Information Quest: Kristallnacht.