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Production begins on new 360 testimony featuring Holocaust survivor on site at concentration camp

Up and down, up and down. All day, every day.

From the base of a stone quarry, inmates of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria were compelled by Nazis during the Holocaust to climb 186 steps to the top, lugging boulders that would be used for German state construction projects.

Among those forced to take part in this sadistic form of slave labor was Edward Mosberg.

The Consul General of Austria in Los Angeles pays visit to USC Shoah Foundation

Andreas Launer, who took the position in August of 2017, wanted to see firsthand what he’d heard about the Institute’s growing array of interactive projects, such as Dimensions in Testimony and the Institute's VR films.

What is propaganda? IWitness activity for Czech students explores 1968 Prague Spring

At a time when the term “fake news” has become pervasive – and when rising nationalism worldwide has had an especially pronounced effect on Central Europe – USC Shoah Foundation’s representatives in the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary are introducing high school students to a suite of new IWitness activities that use testimony to provide a deeper understanding of propaganda.

Teens tackle world problems at Institute's first weeklong summer internship program

During the Institute's inaugural summer William P. Lauder Internship Program, about two-dozen young people came to USC Shoah Foundation from across the country to participate in the intensive program, which focused on the causes and impacts of injustice and the ways an individual can respond.

Make a clear choice: Deny all Holocaust deniers

Those who openly deny the Holocaust are either apologists for the Nazis, right wing radicals, religious extremists, and all are antisemites, even if they deny that too.

Educators convene in Hungary and Poland for training on using genocide-survivor testimony in lessons

USC Shoah Foundation’s annual Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century program is a one-year professional development initiative for educators that begins with a six-day seminar for educators.

Former congresswoman who expelled Nazis, gave testimony to Institute quits Homeland Security advisory council in protest

Remembering the Warsaw Uprising

Call for Papers: Memory through the Screen: Polish Cinema and WWII

Call for Papers:

International Conference "Memory through the Screen: Polish Cinema and WWII"

October 18-19, 2018

USC Department of Slavic Language and Literature's 3rd Annual Film Conference at the University of Southern California

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.
–Andrzej Wajda
 

Dr. Anne-Berenike Rothstein to Visit USC Shoah Foundation to Research New Ways of Transforming and Mediating Memory of the Holocaust

Dr. Anne-Berenike Rothstein, a researcher in the Department of Romance and Comparative Literature and an Academic Counselor at the University of Konstanz, Germany, will visit the USC Shoah Foundation this fall to conduct research on methods of transforming and mediating memory of the Holocaust. Dr. Rothstein will be in residence at the Institute for two weeks in September 2018 in order to further research on a project which re-conceptualizes a guided tour for a satellite camp of Dachau.