At age 4, Morris Dancyger witnessed the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet forces. In his 2008 testimony held by the Calgary Jewish Federation and part of the USC Shoah Foundation archive, Morris recalled the moment he and his family realized Soviet troops had entered their barracks. Shortly after liberation, a Soviet military crew filmed Morris revealing his concentration camp tattoo. This historic footage later appeared in the 1945 documentary "Oswiecem" (Auschwitz), which documented evidence of Nazi crimes and atrocities.

On January 27, 1945, Allied Forces liberated the camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Each year on this anniversary, the world observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a solemn occasion for us all to affirm our commitment to Holocaust remembrance and education and to a world that respects and knows the histories of the victims and survivors of this terrible crime. 

Dr. Brian Hughes directs the Shoah Foundation’s Countering Antisemitism Laboratory (CAL). In this role, he develops evidence-backed interventions to prevent and reduce antisemitic attitudes and behaviors. These interventions address the problem of antisemitism at scale, online and offline, with a focus on the needs of impacted communities and victim-survivors. A media and communication scholar by training, Dr.