Priest discusses Holocaust documentation efforts

By Ryan Torok
Published on June 6, 2013

The Rev. Patrick Desbois, secretary to the French Conference of Bishops for relations with Judaism and adviser to the Vatican on the Jewish religion, appeared at Wilshire Boulevard Temple on May 22 to discuss his effort to locate the mass graves of the approximately 1.5 million Jews who were murdered in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust between 1941 and 1944.

Survivor initiative to thrive on common cents

Published on April 3, 2013

Sixty-eight years after being liberated from the horrors of the Holocaust, many aging survivors are living another nightmare — poverty without hope.

Spielberg directs kids to ‘iWitness’ history

By Tom Tugend
Published on March 7, 2013

In a video, a Holocaust survivor remembers how he had to kill the family dog as he faced deportation to a wartime ghetto, where there would not be enough food for humans and none for animals.

Leonora and Herbert Kolischer, Holocaust survivors and entrepreneurs, 88

Published on December 5, 2012

Leonora Kolischer died in her home in Malibu on October 31, followed soon by her husband Herbert Kolischer on November 4. They were both 88.

Jane Fonda to host Holocaust event on sexual violence

Published on October 22, 2012

Jane Fonda will host an event in Los Angeles focusing on sexual violence during the Holocaust. More than 200 people are expected for the invitation-only event on Nov. 8 at the Ray Kurtzman Theater. The event is sponsored by the USC Shoah Foundation and Remember the Women Institute.

An Evening with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute

By Ilana Angel
Published on June 14, 2012

A close encounter with Steven Spielberg’s dad

By Tom Tugend
Published on June 13, 2012

For Arnold Spielberg's birthday in the late 1950s, his wife, Leah, gave him a Brownie movie camera. He had little chance to enjoy the present because it was immediately appropriated by his 13-year-old son, Steven.

Seeking Artifacts and Inspiration, Director of Memorialized Austrian Concentration Camp Visits L.A.

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on May 30, 2012

Like many memorialized Nazi concentration camps across Europe, Mauthausen, the largest such camp in Austria, is in the process of being renovated for a new generation of visitors. First opened to the public in 1970, the exhibition at the camp, which attracted 200,000 visitors each year, was in need of updating in light of new historical research and new ways of presenting that history.

Shoah Foundation presents inspiration award to Steven Spielberg’s father

By Tom Tugend
Published on May 2, 2012

The Four Seasons banquet room was teeming with Spielbergs, but for once it wasn’t producer/director Steven, nor sisters Nancy, Sue or Anne, who were in the spotlight.

Shoah Foundation gathers stories of Rwandan genocide

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on November 15, 2011

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute is home to more than 52,000 videotaped testimonies about the Holocaust, and people searching the archive’s index enter a single keyword into their queries more than any other: “Auschwitz.”

Shoah archive expanding to include testimonies of Rwandan genocide

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on November 8, 2011

When Crystal met Spielberg; A rabbi, a reverend and a pastor walk into a shul

By Danielle Berrin
Published on October 31, 2008

When Billy Crystal met Steven Spielberg at the Oct. 22 Shoah Foundation dinner, the comedian had a beef with the filmmaker.

Vatican invites rabbi to speak; IDF using Facebook to catch draft dodgers

Published on October 1, 2008

The Vatican for the first time invited a rabbi to speak at its World Synod of Bishops

Briefs: Shoah Foundation broadens scope; OU essay contest offers Israel trips

Published on April 26, 2007

Community briefs.

Filming on Babi Yar Genocide Underway

By Yulianna Vilkos
Published on April 13, 2006

A new Holocaust documentary, co-produced by the Los Angeles-based Shoah Foundation, is being filmed in Ukraine and targeted mainly toward a Ukranian and Russian audience. The film should be completed by September, in time for the 65th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre.

Shoah Foundation Makes USC Its Home

By Tom Tugend
Published on October 27, 2005

With a mixture of elation and nostalgia, filmmaker Steven Spielberg last week formally turned over his Shoah Foundation, with 52,000 videotaped testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses, to the University of Southern California.

Survivor Voices Come to Classrooms

By Julie G Fax
Published on August 25, 2005

In the backlot at Universal Studios, somewhere between the lake where Jaws lurks and the courthouse square where Michael J. Fox sped back to the future, researchers in nondescript trailers are finishing up one of the most ambitious projects involving the Holocaust.

Preservation Efforts

By Tom Tugend
Published on December 2, 1999

In a huge tent on the Universal Studios lot, crammed with computer gear and large television screens, Steven Spielberg last week unveiled his high-tech master plan to transmit and preserve the living testimony of Holocaust survivors for this and future generations.