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USC Shoah Foundation

Stephen Smith in Tel Aviv, February 22, 2024. (Shoshanna Solomon)
January 19, 2025, 3:08 pm
To build empathy around Oct. 7, former USC Shoah Foundation head pushes new VR project
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
By Shoshanna Solomon
Destroyed houses from the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on southern Israel, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, September 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 7, 2024, 1:31 am
After reaching Israel days after Oct. 7, USC Shoah Foundation is now helping record it
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
By Matt Lebovic
Students are seen on campus at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, California, on April 16, 2024. (Robyn Beck/AFP)
April 17, 2024, 1:42 pm
USC Shoah foundation distances itself from canceled pro-Palestinian valedictorian
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’
By Andrew Lapin
Director Steven Spielberg expresses shock at the atrocities of Hamas terrorists against the Jewish people on October 7 in announcing a project to document its horrors (Screenshot: Fox News, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 10, 2023, 11:19 am
Shoah Foundation launches project to document ‘unspeakable barbarity’ of October 7
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’
By ToI Staff
Family and friends attend the funeral of three members of the Sharabi family, Lian, Noya and Yahel, who were murdered by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2023, in Moshav Kfar HaRif, southern Israel, October 25, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
November 8, 2023, 6:21 pm
Testimony of Hamas massacre survivors compiled from social media posts on new website
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
By Mati Wagner
Students ask questions of 'Dimensions in Testimony' eyewitness holograms, part of a partnership between USC Shoah Foundation and the nonprofit Common Circles, White Plains Middle School, New York, June 1, 2023 (Matt Lebovic/Times of Israel)
August 25, 2023, 5:00 pm
Back to school: Exhibits custom-tailored for US pupils make Holocaust a local issue
Launched last winter, nonprofit ‘Common Circles’ fights antisemitism by designing ‘museum-like experiences’ with high-tech Holocaust education, art, and storytelling
By Matt Lebovic
Polish actress Zuzanna Surowy in 'My Name Is Sara.' (Strand Releasing/ via JTA)
July 21, 2022, 5:39 am
In ‘My Name is Sara,’ Jewish girl survives the Holocaust by living as a Christian
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
By Andrew Lapin
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, second from left, speaks to an interactive artificial intelligence video of Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter. (Jacob Gurvis/ JTA)
June 19, 2022, 11:31 pm
Doug Emhoff meets a Holocaust survivor and his AI double at cutting-edge LA exhibit
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
By jacob gurvis
Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova records her Holocaust survivor testimony for the USC Shoah Foundation in 1998. (Screenshot via JTA)
April 27, 2022, 11:13 pm
Shoah Foundation shares ‘lost’ testimony of Holocaust survivor killed in Ukraine
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
By Andrew Lapin
Ben Foster as Harry Haft, a Holocaust survivor who becomes a professional boxer, in HBO's 'The Survivor.' (Jessica Kourkounis/HBO)
April 27, 2022, 7:16 pm
Behind boxing film ‘The Survivor,’ a personal history of post-Holocaust trauma
Director Barry Levinson agreed to make the movie to help understand his own family’s experiences, recounts producer ahead of US premiere Wednesday night
By Jessica Steinberg
Israelis watch the testimony of a Holocaust survivor during a meeting as part of 'Zikaron Basalon' project, on the eve of the Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Moshav Kidmat Tzvi, April 7, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
April 25, 2022, 5:25 pm
Digital partnership takes Zikaron BaSalon’s Holocaust testimony events global
Joining forces with the USC Shoah Foundation, Bringing Testimony Home program will allow survivors’ stories to be heard globally for generations to come
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Tova Friedman, an 82-year-old Polish-born Holocaust survivor, holds a photograph of herself as a child with her mother, who also survived the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, in New York, December 13, 2019. (World Jewish Congress via AP)
May 28, 2021, 3:17 am
New Shoah Foundation podcast connects Holocaust testimony with today’s headlines
Drawing from USC Shoah Foundation’s audiovisual archive, ‘The Memory Generation’ seeks to ‘expand the pyramid of memory’ by giving survivors’ voices contemporary relevance
By Matt Lebovic
Irene Zisblatt visits her grandparents' grave with her daughter Robin in the 1998 documentary 'The Last Days.' (Courtesy)
May 23, 2021, 3:23 am
Now’s the time to watch 1998 Holocaust doc ‘The Last Days,’ currently on Netflix
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
By Jordan Hoffman
An episode of "The Memory Generation" will include Betty Grebenshikoff (left) and Ana Maria Wahrenberg, who reunited on Zoom after 82 years of not knowing what happened to each other after Kristallnacht in Nazi Germany (courtesy: USC Shoah Foundation)
February 14, 2021, 3:58 pm
‘Amazing detective work’ reunites best friends thought murdered in the Holocaust
82 years after fleeing Nazi Germany with their families, two childhood friends are brought together by USC Shoah Foundation researcher who ‘linked’ their testimony
By Matt Lebovic
Filmmaker Steven Spielberg speaks as he introduces President Barack Obama at the Righteous Among the Nations Award Ceremony at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
February 11, 2021, 1:00 am
Steven Spielberg wins Israel’s prestigious Genesis Prize for films, philanthropy
For 1st time, public involved in choice; director wins $1 million award for contribution to cinema, philanthropic works, efforts to preserve the memory of Holocaust
By Josef Federman
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