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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.
/ Friday, January 24, 2025
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.
/ Friday, January 24, 2025
Please join the USC Shoah Foundation and our partners at UCLA as we hear from Dr. Leon Saltiel who will focus on the challenges of grappling with the past and with current antisemitism.
/ Thursday, January 23, 2025
The Following Op-Ed was published in U.S. News by the USC Shoah Foundation's Finci-Viterbi Executive Director, Robert J. Williams, Ph.D.
January 27, 2025
As we commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day today and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, we find ourselves at a critical juncture in history.
/ Friday, February 7, 2025
LOS ANGELES, CA (Feb. 11, 2025) — The USC Shoah Foundation announced the appointment of Dr. Brian Hughes as the inaugural Director of its Countering Antisemitism Laboratory, marking a significant expansion of the institute's mission to combat hatred through research, education and action.
/ Tuesday, February 11, 2025
In a follow up to her inaugural lecture series, Mélanie Péron will discuss how she and her students at the University of Pennsylvania drew upon a wealth of different sources such as diaries and archives to reconstruct the individual stories of Jewish children and their families in occupied France before they were reduced to a typed line on a deportation list and the importance of using sources such as diaries and video testimonies to teach about the Shoah despite the inexorable disappearance of the last remaining witnesses.
/ Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Join Dr. Sarah Bunin Benor as she discusses the historical events that have led to major changes in the linguistic profile of Jewish communities around the world.
/ Monday, December 23, 2024
Inside a Warsaw light stage surrounded by nine cameras, prominent historian and journalist Marian Turski in late June completed the first ever Polish-language interactive biography.
Conducted by USC Shoah Foundation and the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw (POLIN), Turski’s interview was a truly international collaboration involving 15 team members from Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Poland, the U.K and the U.S.
DiT / Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Noah joined the USC Shoah Foundation in 2021 as Associate Director of Annual Giving and began his role as Director of Development in 2024. He is responsible for content development, strategy, and general annual fund progress, as well as working with community members at an individual level to grow their engagement. Before joining the Institute’s advancement team, Noah worked in annual giving at Caltech and UCLA and graduated from the University of Michigan.
/ Thursday, April 14, 2022
World War II liberator William McKinney describes the need for communities to come together.
homepage, home page / Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Join us as Professors Michelle Lynn Kahn and Steven J. from the University of Southern California’s Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life, explore the lingering international support for Nazism post World War II.
/ Monday, February 10, 2025
We are saddened to learn of the passing of György Kun, who gave his testimony in October 1999 in Budapest, Hungary. His daughter, Andrea Szonyis, an educator and former colleague at the USC Shoah Foundation, authored a story in the series "Voices from the Archive” about her father.
/ Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Join us in person for an exclusive screening of For the Living and a discussion with the USC Shoah Foundation Senior Director of Programs, Dr. Catherine Clark, and Executive Producer of the film, Melinda Goldrich.
For the Living is the story of 250 cyclists who travel to Poland and retrace the liberation path of Holocaust survivor Marcel Zielinski from Auschwitz-Birkenau to Kraków. Their 60-mile odyssey inspires an urgent examination of humanity's equally perilous journey from dehumanization to compassion.
/ Monday, March 10, 2025
Looking for an opportunity to make a difference in the world? Join the team at USC Shoah Foundation. Our mission is to give opportunity to survivors and witnesses to the Shoah—the genocide of the Jews—to tell their own stories in their own words in audio-visual interviews, preserve their testimonies, and make them accessible for research, education, and outreach for the betterment of humankind in perpetuity.
/ Friday, October 29, 2021
The Center's 2016 International conference began Monday, September 12, and conference organizers Wolf Gruner (USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research) and Victoria Sanford (Lehman College, CUNY).
After welcome remarks, Fredy Peccerelli from the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation (FAFG) presented on “Guatemala: New Testimonies and the Guatemalan Genocide.”
presentation / Monday, October 3, 2016
Watch a virtual panel discussion on the topic of Hate speech and the prevention of genocide through education hosted by UNESCO, jointly with the Permanent Delegation of Rwanda to UNESCO. The institute is joined by many experts from around the world during this virtual panel discussion marking International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
discussion / Wednesday, April 7, 2021
In this clip from her 2019 interview with the USC Shoah Foundation, Ivy Schamis, an educator at Parkland High School, stresses the value of Holocaust education.
More on Ivy Schamis
Listen to Ivy reflect on the importance of reaching out after an act of violence.
Explore our IWitness activity, Bonding Through Adversity.
homepage / Friday, February 11, 2022
Werner recalls his life after the war, starting with a new wife in America.
immigration, post-war, America, survivor / Friday, April 13, 2012
Odoska speaks about hiding Jews in the medical school in Italy where she was training.
Italy, rescuer / Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Alex recalls when he was a little boy hearing Hitler on the radio.
/ Monday, April 30, 2012
LOS ANGELES – April 26, 2012 – Arnold Spielberg, father of USC Shoah Foundation Institute Founder Steven Spielberg, was honored today with the Institute’s inaugural Inspiration Award at a private luncheon in Los Angeles. Arnold was recognized for his many years of mentorship and support of the Institute’s work, especially in the area of humanity through technology.
/ Thursday, April 26, 2012
On April 21 through 23, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute participated in an international conference, "History Unlimited: Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture." The conference asked the question of whether ethical or aesthetic limits should be placed on how the Holocaust is represented in fiction or nonfiction.
conference, Dan Leshem, literature / Wednesday, April 25, 2012
On April 20, at Los Angeles City Hall, Councilmember Paul Krekorian, together with co-host Councilmember Eric Garcetti, recognized the USC Shoah Foundation Institute and the Armenian Film Foundation for working jointly to preserve memories of survivors and other witnesses of the Armenian Genocide.
Armenian / Wednesday, April 25, 2012