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USC Shoah Foundation is dedicated to making audio-visual interviews with witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides a compelling voice for education and action. The Institute currently has over 57,466 testimonies recorded in 45 languages in 70 countries that allow us to see the faces and hear the voices of those who witnessed history, allowing them to teach, to memorialize, and to inspire.
/ Sunday, March 24, 2019
Dr. Robert J. Williams is the Chief Executive Officer and Finci-Viterbi Chair of the USC Shoah Foundation. He is UNESCO Chair on Antisemitism and Holocaust Research and the Advisor to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, where he also served for four years as chair of the Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial.
/ Monday, October 31, 2022
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.
/ Friday, January 24, 2025
Svetlana Ushakova provides the service of research, annotation, and evaluation to the Dimensions in Testimony program. In 2014-2018, she worked at USC Shoah Foundation as an indexer and research assistant. Before she moved to the USA, she worked for ten years as a researcher at an academic institution in Russia and has several publications. Svetlana received her doctorate in Russian History from Novosibirsk State University, Russia, and her master in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University.
/ Thursday, February 15, 2018
Alla Svitlynets graduated with honors from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, holding a bachelor's degree in history and a master's degree in anthropology. She started her career in Kyiv, but after the outbreak of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, Alla made the courageous decision to relocate to Los Angeles. She joined the USC Shoah Foundation team in March 2024.
/ Friday, August 23, 2024
As a lawyer at the Nuremberg Trials, Harriet Zetterberg made breakthrough discoveries. But as the only woman on the prosecutorial staff, she had to look on as male members of the team presented her work.
Women at Nuremberg, Nuremberg / Friday, May 4, 2018
The Armenian Genocide testimony collections include several categories of individuals linked directly or indirectly to the calamity. The vast majority are Armenian Genocide survivors, while others are Armenian descendants (second and third generation), scholars, rescuers and aid providers, foreign witnesses, and Yezidi survivors, as well as Arab and Greek eyewitnesses. The interviews were recorded in 10 languages in 13 countries.
/ Monday, October 21, 2019
In this talk, Miriam Udel will consider the place of the children’s Yiddish Holocaust canon within a broader set of Jewish literary resources for depicting anti-Jewish violence, resistance and survival.
/ Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Made possible by the generous support of the Epstein Family Foundation.
/ Friday, November 8, 2024
Cate Wilson is the Interim Deputy Director of Programs. She earned an MA in Religion and completed her PhD, both from Claremont School of Theology. She joined the Institute in 2016. In addition to community engagement and outreach, she draws on 15 years of experience as a line-producer and production manager in the film and television industries contributing to project management for the education department. She earned her PhD in Practical Theology from Claremont McKenna College.
/ Monday, May 16, 2016
The USC Shoah Foundation has released a powerful new testimony-based walking tour (IWalk) of the Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex in Yerevan, Armenia, on its IWalk app ( IOS/
armenia, Armenian Genocide, iwalk, education / Tuesday, April 22, 2025
The Education Division of the USC Shoah Foundation—The Institute for Visual History and Education invites applications for their inaugural Azrieli Teaching Fellowship for Excellence in Testimony-based Pedagogy for the 2025-2026 academic year.
/ Monday, March 3, 2025
USC Shoah Foundation announced today the upcoming release of the Searching for Never Again Podcast which launches on April 22nd. From the heartbreaking to the inspirational, the podcast explores the past and present of antisemitism and hate, and how together we can understand and resist it.
/ Wednesday, April 23, 2025
As the 110th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide approaches on April 24, the USC Shoah Foundation is proud to announce the landmark partnership with the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies, a hub of research and learning at USC dedicated to studying the contemporary Armenian diaspora and the Republic of Armenia.
DiT, iwitness, education, Armenian, Armenian Genocide / Wednesday, April 23, 2025
The USC Shoah Foundation has partnered with the National Library of Israel to provide Israelis with the first countrywide access to the Institute's entire Visual History Archive, including testimonies from more than 52,000 Holocaust survivors and hundreds of survivors of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks.
/ Monday, March 4, 2024
United Nations, USC Shoah Foundation Institute, and Yad Vashem to release new educational resource.
/ Monday, January 24, 2011
JANUARY 6, 2011—JERUSALEM—Sixteen college professors from across the United States are attending a special seminar at Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies this week to study about the Holocaust and antisemitism. The weeklong “Echoes and Reflections Professors’ Study Tour” opened January 5, 2010. Some of the professors will remain for additional study days.
/ Thursday, January 6, 2011
The first phase of the program in which educator teams developed multimedia lessons from the Hungarian-language testimonies of the Institute’s Visual History Archive ended on April 17, 2010 with an official ceremony at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest. The program was based on a three-way partnership between the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, the Holocaust Memorial Center and the Educational Research and Development Institute (OFI) of the Hungarian Ministry of Education.
/ Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010. Steven Spielberg, Founder of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, presented DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s highest honor, the Ambassadors for Humanity Award.
/ Monday, December 13, 2010
Alice Herz-Sommer plays the radio broadcast recording of her performance at eight years old of two piano pieces by German composer, Robert Schumann. Alice died February 23, 2014 in England; she was 110 years old and the oldest known Holocaust survivor.
clip, female, alice sommer, musical performance, piano / Tuesday, February 25, 2014
On December 9, 2010, Steven Spielberg, Founder of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, will present Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks, with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s highest honor, the Ambassadors for Humanity Award. Craig Ferguson will host, with Grammy® and Academy Award® winner Jennifer Hudson as special musical guest.
/ Thursday, December 2, 2010
On September 21, 1920, the Hungarian Parliament passed Law XXV, now known as the Numerus Clausus Law (a system of “closed numbers”), introduced to limit the number of Jewish students in higher education. To mark this dark period of Hungarian history, the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest has organized an exhibition commemorating the 90th anniversary of this event.
/ Tuesday, November 23, 2010