The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/usc-shoah-foundation/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:22:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png USC Shoah Foundation | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/usc-shoah-foundation/ 32 32 Shoah Foundation to collect 10,000 testimonies on antisemitism since Holocaust https://www.timesofisrael.com/shoah-foundation-to-collect-10000-testimonies-on-antisemitism-beyond-holocaust/ Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:24:33 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3537085 Research center, which houses over 61,000 people's Holocaust stories, will partner with American Jewish Committee to became largest repository of accounts of postwar antisemitism

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]]> To build empathy around Oct. 7, former USC Shoah Foundation head pushes new VR project https://www.timesofisrael.com/to-build-empathy-around-oct-7-former-usc-shoah-foundation-head-pushes-new-vr-project/ Sun, 19 Jan 2025 13:08:55 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3451574 Holocaust expert Stephen Smith believes disseminating augmented first-person accounts from a freed hostage and Nova survivors will help combat denial on US college campuses

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]]> After reaching Israel days after Oct. 7, USC Shoah Foundation is now helping record it https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-reaching-israel-days-after-oct-7-usc-shoah-foundation-is-now-helping-record-it/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 22:31:35 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3388179 The organization's researchers gathered hundreds of witness testimonies after the massacre and is sharing them with Israel's National Library while advising on forming a collection

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]]> USC Shoah foundation distances itself from canceled pro-Palestinian valedictorian https://www.timesofisrael.com/usc-shoah-foundation-distances-itself-from-canceled-pro-palestinian-valedictorian/ Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:42:13 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3270411 Asna Tabassum, whose commencement speech was called off over 'security concerns' after Jewish backlash, cited Spielberg-founded center as part of her minor in 'resistance to genocide'

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]]> Shoah Foundation launches project to document ‘unspeakable barbarity’ of October 7 https://www.timesofisrael.com/spielberg-launches-new-project-to-document-unspeakable-barbarity-of-october-7/ Sun, 10 Dec 2023 09:19:34 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3174679 130 accounts gathered so far from survivors of Hamas massacre to add to collection of Holocaust testimony; founder Steven Spielberg laments: Antisemitism is again 'standing proud'

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]]> Testimony of Hamas massacre survivors compiled from social media posts on new website https://www.timesofisrael.com/testimony-of-hamas-massacre-survivors-compiled-from-social-media-posts-on-new-website/ Wed, 08 Nov 2023 16:21:02 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3147112 With support from the Shoah Foundation, virtual repository October7.org documents eyewitness accounts of the Hamas atrocities and translates them into four languages and counting

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]]> Back to school: Exhibits custom-tailored for US pupils make Holocaust a local issue https://www.timesofisrael.com/back-to-school-exhibits-custom-tailored-for-us-pupils-make-the-holocaust-a-local-issue/ Fri, 25 Aug 2023 14:00:05 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3039801 Launched last winter, nonprofit 'Common Circles' fights antisemitism by designing ‘museum-like experiences’ with high-tech Holocaust education, art, and storytelling

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]]> In ‘My Name is Sara,’ Jewish girl survives the Holocaust by living as a Christian https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-jewish-girl-survives-the-holocaust-by-living-as-a-christian-in-my-name-is-sara/ Thu, 21 Jul 2022 02:39:27 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2803010 The film, now playing at New York’s Quad Cinema, is a dramatization of the true story of Sara Góralnik Shapiro, who disguised herself and worked for a family of Ukrainian farmers

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]]> Doug Emhoff meets a Holocaust survivor and his AI double at cutting-edge LA exhibit https://www.timesofisrael.com/doug-emhoff-meets-a-holocaust-survivor-and-his-ai-double-at-cutting-edge-la-exhibit/ Sun, 19 Jun 2022 20:31:30 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2778773 America's Second Gentleman explores the new Dimensions in Testimony project at USC's Shoah Foundation, which provides lifelike interactive accounts as the WWII generation wanes

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]]> Shoah Foundation shares ‘lost’ testimony of Holocaust survivor killed in Ukraine https://www.timesofisrael.com/shoah-foundation-shares-lost-testimony-of-holocaust-survivor-killed-in-ukraine/ Wed, 27 Apr 2022 20:13:49 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2752783 1998 video of Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova, who died sheltering from Russian shelling in Mariupol weeks ago, was destroyed in family's home, but rediscovered and posted online

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]]> Behind boxing film ‘The Survivor,’ a personal history of post-Holocaust trauma https://www.timesofisrael.com/behind-boxing-film-the-survivor-a-personal-history-of-post-holocaust-trauma/ Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:16:38 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2751902 Director Barry Levinson agreed to make the movie to help understand his own family's experiences, recounts producer ahead of US premiere Wednesday night

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]]> Digital partnership takes Zikaron BaSalon’s Holocaust testimony events global https://www.timesofisrael.com/digital-partnership-takes-zikaron-basalons-holocaust-testimony-events-global/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 14:25:55 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2750945 Joining forces with the USC Shoah Foundation, Bringing Testimony Home program will allow survivors' stories to be heard globally for generations to come

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]]> New Shoah Foundation podcast connects Holocaust testimony with today’s headlines https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-shoah-foundation-podcast-connects-holocaust-testimony-with-todays-headlines/ Fri, 28 May 2021 00:17:21 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2553652 Drawing from USC Shoah Foundation's audiovisual archive, ‘The Memory Generation’ seeks to 'expand the pyramid of memory' by giving survivors' voices contemporary relevance

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]]> Now’s the time to watch 1998 Holocaust doc ‘The Last Days,’ currently on Netflix https://www.timesofisrael.com/nows-the-time-to-watch-1998-holocaust-doc-the-last-days-currently-on-netflix/ Sun, 23 May 2021 00:23:11 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2548827 Oscar-winning film produced by Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation interviews Hungarian survivors in a jarring but even more relevant wakeup call amid rising global antisemitism

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]]> ‘Amazing detective work’ reunites best friends thought murdered in the Holocaust https://www.timesofisrael.com/amazing-detective-work-reunites-best-friends-thought-murdered-in-the-holocaust/ Sun, 14 Feb 2021 13:58:09 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2479625 82 years after fleeing Nazi Germany with their families, two childhood friends are brought together by USC Shoah Foundation researcher who 'linked' their testimony

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