USC Shoah Foundation

This Sunday, join us in partnership with Cantors Assembly for a menorah lighting and retrospective honoring Hazzan Moshe Taube zl, a Holocaust survivor saved by Oskar Schindler who gave testimony to the Visual History Archive and went on to become one of the great cantors of his generation. In this clip from the VHA, Moshe speaks of the influence opera and folk music had on him as a young boy and he shares a short and powerful song that he loved as a child. Register now for this wonderful event at at http://sfi.usc.edu/events/shloshim-retrospective

Wishing all of our followers a happy and peaceful first night of Hannukkah and a wonderful reminder of the power of hope, a message particularly important these days: light in the darkness. In this clip from the Visual History Archive, Holocaust Survivor Olga Menczer shares her Hanukkah memories as a young girl in Hungary: https://shar.es/ao2eIf

For Oculus Rift users, we are thrilled to announce that The Last Goodbye is now available for download on the Oculus store! Four years ago, we traveled with Pinchas Gutter to the Majdanek concentration camp where he was imprisoned as a 12-year-old boy. Pinchas shared his story with us and we filmed the experience in 360 to create the first-ever Holocaust Survivor Testimony in Virtual Reality. Now, you can experience Pinchas’ testimony firsthand from home in The Last Goodbye, ...a roomscale virtual reality experience. Learn more about the film at sfi.usc.edu/thelastgoodbye Now available for download for the Oculus Rift: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/1973329179388804/

Silence is not an option. Today's #GenocidePreventionDay marks 72 years since The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which was adopted on December 9, 1948. The Convention was the first to define genocide, and did so as acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.... In this definition, the is what matters. In Executive Director Dr. Stephen Smith's latest opinion piece in the @jdforward, he explores this definition in the context of current events. Learn more at http://jd.fo/bxTP

Screening Now! Join us in our screening and Q&A of The Tattooed Torah at the link below! - - - If you missed the event, the film will be available to watch for the next 24 hours only. Check it out while there's still time!