In memory of Holocaust Survivor Anneliese Nossbaum
Wed, 04/01/2020 - 2:27pm
USC Shoah foundation is saddened to learn of the recent passing of Anneliese Nossbaum, who survived a Jewish ghetto and three concentration camps.
Anneliese passed away March 23, 2020 after falling ill within weeks of returning from a trip that commemorated the 75-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. She was 91.
She was born on January 8, 1929 in Guben, Germany as Anneliese Winterberg. At the age of two, her family moved to Bonn where her father later became the rabbi of their synagogue.
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Dario Gabbai, Auschwitz Sonderkommando survivor, dies at 97
Fri, 03/27/2020 - 9:47am
The portrait I have been working on of Dario isn’t complete yet, but what an honor it was to have met him and is now to engage with his testimony through the act of painting,” said David Kassan of hi
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USC Research With Testimonies: Featuring the Center's Summer 2017 Research Fellows
In Memory of Asa Shapiro
Fri, 06/16/2017 - 12:12pm
The staff at USC Shoah Foundation is saddened to learn about recent the passing of Asa Shapiro, father of board member Mickey Shapiro and Holocaust survivor.
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Commemorating Yom HaShoah 2017 through Testimony
Mon, 04/10/2017 - 8:37am
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Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom HaShoah as it’s known in Hebrew, commemorates and honors the victims and survivors of the Holocaust. This year, people around the world will remember the victims of the Holocaust April 23- 24, 2017.
Testimonies of Jews in Morocco During the Holocaust to be Recorded for Middle East and North Africa Collection
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 5:00pm
USC Shoah Foundation’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Collection will gain at least five more testimonies this spring when Project Director Jacqueline Semha Gmach travels to Paris for four months.
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It's "Impossible to Miss" Themes Linking 1933 With 2017
Tue, 01/31/2017 - 10:02am
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At a first glance The Yellow Spot: The Extermination of the Jews in Germany is a book about the Holocaust. But in fact, it was published in 1936, after just three years of Nazi rule — and a full five years before the first gas chambers were commissioned for the murder of European Jewry. The authors spend 287 pages detailing a series of laws and actions taken against the Jews. Their conclusion was that the “legal disability” being imposed by the Nazis upon the Jews ultimately would result in their elimination. (Originally published by The Hollywood Reporter.)