Like many of you, I sat in front of my television on the evening of Friday, November 13, 2015 and watched in horror as news of the terrorist attacks in Paris flooded the airways. "Not again," I thought to myself. My heart ached for people whom I had never met and for a city and country thousands of miles away.
MyGivingStory, GivingTuesday, beginswithme, op-eds / Monday, November 23, 2015
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clip reel / Wednesday, November 13, 2013
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In this activity, students examine stories that have the power to strengthen our human connection or create deep divides leading to hate, intolerance and violence.
iwitness, IWitness Spotlight, stronger than hate / Friday, October 26, 2018
Steve Kay, dean of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, believe that the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive holds many keys to unlocking the enigmatic conditions that have led to genocides throughout history.
pastforward, steve kay / Tuesday, July 15, 2014
A daughter discovers her father’s secret past and shares his story with the world.
holocaust survivor, Noemie Lopian, memoir / Monday, August 20, 2018
With nearly 52,000 interviews from survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides, the archive of audio-visual testimony assembled and maintained by USC Shoah Foundation is so abundant it would take at least 12 years to watch it from beginning to end. And that’s assuming the footage would be rolling 24 hours a day, seven days a week. When I started my new job here at the Institute, I was struck by this statistic, which adequately conveys the scope of this incredible resource.
testimony, research, op-eds / Monday, October 13, 2014
vedi anche le foto collegate con questo articoloQuesto bellissimo documentario realizzato dall'Archivio Cinematografico della Resistenza, è basato sulle interviste italiane raccolte dallo USC Shoah Foundation Institute soprattutto in Piemonte, dove numerosi sono stati i partigiani ebrei che hanno contribuito attivamente alla lotta contro fascisti e nazisti.
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Join this webinar to learn how to access these digital resources on both USC Shoah Foundation’s educational website IWitness and the Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program website.
education, iwitness, webinar / Tuesday, January 4, 2022
If Anne Frank hadn't perished, would her feelings about people have remained the same?
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On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, listen to the testimonies of 70 Holocaust survivors, drawn from the Visual History Archive at USC Shoah Foundation, as they recall their personal experiences in the Nazi extermination camp.
tcv / Monday, December 1, 2014
"My Story Matters" focuses on the importance of individuals sharing stories of survival for their own benefit, for the benefit of others, and for the collective benefit to the world.
iwitness, IWitness activity / Thursday, December 18, 2014
Check out our year in review of the Institute's work in 2018, including stories about our new collection of testimonies from survivors of anti-Rohingya violence and the work we have done with the United Nations.
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This webinar examines the stories of Black G.I.s featured in Echoes & Reflections who liberated concentration camps, including Leon Bass and Paul Parks. It will also focus on the experience of facing the reality of Nazi genocide, while balancing the impact of discrimination and violence at home in the United States.
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View “The USC Shoah Foundation Story,” a video about the Institute's history and its current mission at the University of Southern California.
shoah, promo / Wednesday, May 15, 2013
This webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, will demonstrate the power of using audiovisual testimony to promote student learning, information and digital literacy, as well as critical thinking within the context of Holocaust curriculum. Participants will learn guidelines and instructional strategies for using audiovisual testimony found in Echoes & Reflections and the IWitness website. For more information and to RSVP for this webinar
education, iwitness, webinar, echoes and reflections / Tuesday, May 2, 2017
This webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, will demonstrate the power of using audiovisual testimony to promote student learning, information and digital literacy, as well as critical thinking within the context of Holocaust curriculum. Participants will learn guidelines and instructional strategies for using audiovisual testimony found in Echoes & Reflections and the IWitness website. For more information and to RSVP for this webinar
education, iwitness, webinar, echoes and reflections / Tuesday, May 2, 2017
The academic conference hosted by USC Shoah Foundation last week was an excellent opportunity for me to hear the personal stories of survivors alongside academic analysis of modern-day events and future challenges. I attended the keynote panel discussion and the final discussion on the future of testimony and genocide study.
rwanda, conference, holocaust, Holocaust Studies, op-eds / Tuesday, November 25, 2014
This webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, will demonstrate the power of using audiovisual testimony to promote student learning, information and digital literacy, as well as critical thinking within the context of Holocaust curriculum. Participants will learn guidelines and instructional strategies for using audiovisual testimony found in Echoes & Reflections and the IWitness website. For more information and to RSVP for this webinar
education, iwitness, webinar, echoes and reflections / Tuesday, May 2, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Armenian Genocide survivor Elise Taft reads from the preface of her book about why she decided to tell her story.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Tuesday, January 31, 2017
In commemoration of the Armenian Genocide Centennial, the USC Shoah Foundation will be co-sponsoring "Sharing Our Stories: Voices of Survivors." The event will bring together a panel of speakers representing the Holocaust and the Armenian, Bosnian, Cambodian, and Rwandan genocides. The speakers will share their personal experiences, and their paths toward healing, forgiveness, and re-establishing livelihoods in Los Angeles.
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Jewish survivor Dennis Urstein explains the importance of learning from the past, which is why he dedicates a lot of his time speaking with young children. He also describes a difficult situation he handled when speaking with a group of young people.
clip / Friday, July 15, 2016
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Seven Holocaust survivors and liberators share their perspectives and recollections of liberation. Click on the thumbnails to watch.
/ Tuesday, April 30, 2013
As the Allies retook control of lands that had been occupied by the Germans, they came across many Nazi camps. In some instances, the Nazis had tried to destroy all evidence of the camps, in order to conceal from the world what had happened there. In other cases, only the buildings remained as the Nazis had sent the prisoners elsewhere, often on death marches.
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promo / Wednesday, May 15, 2013

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