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March 4, 2020 News USC Shoah Foundation Partners with Hold On To Your Music to Create Groundbreaking Resources in Holocaust Education with $10 Million Koret Foundation Grant Event "No Cameras, No Questions!": School Photos in Haunted Concentrationary Sites News Kirk Douglas, film legend and 2008 USC Shoah Foundation Ambassador for Humanity, passes away at 103 News USC Shoah Foundation Partners with Hold On To Your Music to Create Groundbreaking Resources in Holocaust Education with $10 Million Koret Foundation Grant LEARN MORE... Event "No Cameras, No Questions!": School Photos in Haunted Concentrationary Sites A public lecture by Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) and Leo Spitzer (Dartmouth College) February 27, 2020 at 12:00 pm Learn more News Kirk Douglas, film legend and 2008 USC Shoah Foundation Ambassador for Humanity, passes away at 103 LEARN MORE... Latest News Kirk Douglas, film legend and 2008 USC Shoah Foundation Ambassador for Humanity, passes away at 103 Thursday, February 6, 2020 USC Shoah Foundation joins the Hollywood community and people worldwide in mourning the loss of Kirk Douglas, who passed away earlier this week at age 103. Douglas was an acting legend and an icon of the Golden Age of moviemaking, but it was the zeal and empathy that he brought not only to his work as an artist but also to so many humanitarian causes that made him a close friend of USC Shoah Foundation. USC Shoah Foundation Partners with Hold On To Your Music to Create Groundbreaking Resources in Holocaust Education with $10 Million Koret Foundation Grant Wednesday, February 5, 2020 In Memory of Holocaust survivor Hanna Pankowsky Thursday, January 23, 2020 Today we mourn the loss of Hanna Pankowsky, a remarkable woman who gave us her testimony and was one of the subjects in a portrait series of Holocaust survivors painted by David Kassan. A Message of Unity and Action After New York Antisemitic Attacks Sunday, December 29, 2019 The survivors and witnesses of hate violence offer perspective and insight that can bind our communities together and build respect for all human life. Our Top Stories of 2019 Monday, December 23, 2019 Check out our year in review of the Institute's work in 2019, including stories about our new podcast "We Share the Same Sky" and our work with Discovery Education. USC Shoah Foundation partners with Fox Searchlight Pictures to launch JOJO RABBIT Education initiative Thursday, December 19, 2019 USC Shoah Foundation and Fox Searchlight Pictures today announced a partnership to develop classroom curriculum tied to JOJO RABBIT, Taika Waititi’s heartfelt World War II anti-hate satire. Holocaust survivor’s family reads family letters from WWII on stage in Germany Tuesday, December 17, 2019 “The Laskers from Breslau” highlights the terror and agony felt by two Jewish parents as they desperately tried to send their children out of Nazi Germany as war became imminent. Testimonies from 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China fully indexed and subtitled Monday, November 18, 2019 The collection of 101 interviews could be the world’s fullest audiovisual documentation of the Nanjing Massacre. The rampage began during the Sino-Japanese War on Dec. 13, 1937, when Japanese troops arrived by horseback, tank and foot and embarked on a campaign of violence and rape that terrorized the city for several weeks. In memory of Branko Lustig, producer of ‘Schindler’s List’ and a founder of USC Shoah Foundation Thursday, November 14, 2019 Today we mourn the loss of one of our closest friends, Branko Lustig, a Holocaust survivor and two-time Academy Award winner who produced Schindler’s List and played an indispensable role in the founding of USC Shoah Foundation. Panel: Women in media who have worked in dangerous conflict zones share stories Thursday, November 7, 2019 The USC Visions & Voices panel, called “Behind Enemy Lines,” was cosponsored by USC Shoah Foundation and USC Fisher Museum of Art and was followed by a reception and viewing at the museum of the Facing Survival exhibit by artist David Kassan. more Upcoming Events Peter Hayes Gives Annual Shapiro Scholar Lecture: "Makeshift Murder: The Holocaust at its Peak" March 5, 2020 Geographies of Persecution in Occupied Paris: Place and Space in Survivors’ Testimonies March 12, 2020 Visual History Archive Webinar March 16, 2020 Handling History: Memorial Objects of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Artists' Books March 25, 2020 Returning Armenians: Unburying the Silenced Past in the Post-Genocide Landscape March 26, 2020 more Blog: Through Testimony Bodies and the Memory of Emotions in Testimony January 30, 2020 During my dissertation research on the history of fear in the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933, a Corrie ten Boom fellowship provided the opportunity for me to visit the USC Shoah Foundation to explore the visual testimonies of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive. 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