Paul Parks talks about witnessing the aftermath of the Holocaust and what it meant to his work in the civil rights movement, including his work with Martin Luther King, Jr.

David Jakubowski talks about the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the various physical confrontations that occurred on April 19, 1943.

U.S. liberator Walter Mason reminisces on his efforts to liberate the prisoners of Buchenwald concentration camp. Although they were warned about the conditions of the camp, he discusses that there was no way of being prepared for what they saw that day.

       

In this program, Stephen D. Smith, the Finci Viterbi Executive Director of USC Shoah Foundation, and Mary Pat Higgins, President, and CEO of the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, will discuss the cutting-edge new technologies in storytelling and virtual reality and how they are being implemented in the museum space.

In this clip from the Visual History Archive, Elise Taft describes a moment of hope and joy in her family’s darkest times. It’s with those sentiments that we wish all of our Armenian friends and colleagues a Merry Christmas. May the holiday be as bright as the stars described by Elise in her poignant testimony.

As we watched the violence unfold at the US Capitol, accompanied by documented displays of white supremacy, antisemitic tropes and other forms of hate, we are reminded of the words of United States Congressman Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor to have served in congress. In this clip, Rep. Lantos describes his motivation to serve his country...and the emotions he felt each morning as he approached the Capitol Building.

Institution subscribing to USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive: The Bancroft Library University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 Tel: 510-642-6481 Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu Website: https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/bancroft-library

Now, many (many) months into this fight against Covid-19, it feels like we are rewriting our own story. It is like our obsession with separation has been viewed in a new lens, a wider one. The stories we are now drawn to are those of connections, even if experienced by individuals who are thousands of miles apart. And, once again, when digging into the Visual History Archive for stories of the past that exemplify this idea, there is no shortage of testimonies to lean on. One story in particular involves a reunion between Betty Grebenschikoff and Ana María Wahrenberg.

Institution subscribing to USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive: Langson Library University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697 Tel: 949-824-6842 Email: https://www.lib.uci.edu/ask-librarian-email Website: https://www.lib.uci.edu/langson

Institution subscribing to USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive: Boston University Law Libraries 765 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 Tel: 617-353-3151 Email: https://www.bu.edu/lawlibrary/research-2/get-research-help/ Website: https://www.bu.edu/lawlibrary/

Institution subscribing to USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive: University of Wyoming Libraries Dept. 3334 1000 E. University Ave. Laramie, WY 82071 Tel: (307) 766-3190 Email: libcirc@uwyo.edu Website: https://www.uwyo.edu/libraries/

Institution subscribing to USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive: The University of Manchester Library The Main Library Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PP Tel: +44 (0)161 275 3751 Email: uml.eresources@manchester.ac.uk Website: https://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/locations-and-opening-hours/main-li...

Institution subscribing to USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive: UC Davis Library 100 NW Quad University of California, Davis Davis, CA 95616 Tel: (530) 752-8792 Email: library@ucdavis.edu Website: https://www.library.ucdavis.edu/

Institution subscribing to USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive: Randall Library 601 S. College Rd. Wilmington, NC 28403-5616 Tel: 910-962-3272 Email: libref@uncw.edu Website: https://library.uncw.edu/

Institution subscribing to USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive: National Association for Armenian Studies and Research 395 Concord Avenue Belmont, MA 02478 Tel: (617) 489-1610 Email: hq@naasr.org Website: https://naasr.org/

Institution subscribing to USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive: The University of Iowa Libraries 100 Main Library (LIB) 125 West Washington St. Iowa City, IA 52242-1420 Tel: 319-335-5299 Email: https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/forms/email/ Website: https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/

Institution subscribing to USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive: Memoria Abierta Av. Corrientes 2554 3ºB (C1046AAQ) Buenos Aires, Argentina Tel: (54 11) 4951-4870 / 3559 Email: contacto@memoriaabierta.org.ar Website: http://www.memoriaabierta.org.ar/

Institution subscribing to USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive: Kenyon College Library and Information Services 103 College Drive Gambier, OH 43022-9624 Tel: (740) 427-5186 Email: reference@kenyon.edu Website: https://lbis.kenyon.edu/

As a violent mob invaded the United States Capitol in an attempt to derail the electoral process, documented instances of antisemitism, anti-black racism, and other forms of hatred emerged.  

An online lecture by Wolf Gruner, Founding Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, organized by The Wiener Holocaust Library

The USC Casden Institute presents a Casden Conversation featuring Dr. Wolf Gruner in conversation with Dr. Steve Ross

Commissioned by Carnegie Hall and presented as part of the 2019 Create Justice forum, The Just and the Blind is a powerful multimedia experience that illuminates the unseen and under-heard experiences of incarcerated youth and their families. Artfully and powerfully combining live performance, short films, and honest conversation, spoken-word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph, composer Daniel Bernard Roumain, and street-dance pioneer

Two new books published today capture the extraordinary story of Lisa Jura, an Austrian Jewish refugee who survived the Holocaust and then pursued her dream to become a concert pianist.  

This documentary chronicles the Holocaust as experienced in Italy, from the racial laws Mussolini enacted in 1938 through the German invasion in 1943 and the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945. The experiences are made personal through the use of testimony from the archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education. Nine Italian citizens, all survivors of Auschwitz, share their stories; their testimonies are woven among personal and historical photographs and additional archival footage.

In January 2017, USC Shoah Foundation launched 100 Days to Inspire Respect to provide teachers of civics, history, English and other subjects new thought-provoking resources for the first 100 days of the incoming administration.   

1:00 pm PST/4:00 pm EST/8:00 am AEDT (+1)  Join USC Annenberg for a conversation about combatting anti-Semitism in the United States.

11:30 am PST/2:30 pm EST/6:30 am AEDT (+1) The film will be available to stream for a fee of $12 between Jan. 25-28.  Live Virtual Conversation event is free and features:  Zuzanna Surowy, Lead Actress  Steven Oritt, Director/Producer Mickey Shapiro, Executive Producer, USC Shoah  Foundation Board of Councilors Exec. Committee Member Moderated by Stephen D. Smith, Co-Producer and Finci-Viterbi Executive Director, USC Shoah Foundation