In February 1942, a 12-year-old girl escaped a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Belarus. A champion swimmer, she coated herself in goose fat and swam under ice to evade guards before fleeing into a ...

Ranging from micro-aggressions to blatant instances of race- and gender-based discrimination and sexual harassment, cultural workers are speaking out against the culture inside modern museums. On a ...

“Every year at school in Israel we used to get a lecture from a Holocaust survivor,” said Tomer Peretz. “I was always getting bored listening to him like, ‘OK, OK, we got it, OK. So, they killed you ...

The new testimonies will help link Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks to global history and will join nearly 120,000 hours of existing video footage in the Shoah Foundation’s collection. (Emma Silverstein / Daily ...

On the streets of the Tenderloin and Mission, chalk memorials, spray-painted confessions and discarded objects form a public record of a crisis For those passing through quickly, the scrawls on the ...

Next year marks the 20th anniversary of the end of the civil war in Guatemala. During the conflict that spanned more than three decades, tens of thousands of indigenous Mayans were killed in what is ...

For decades, the USC Shoah Foundation has amassed testimonies of Holocaust survivors, with the goal of preserving stories before they cannot be told firsthand. Now, with survivors dwindling, the ...

NEW HAVEN — To Lawrence Langer, the purpose of interviewing survivors of the Holocaust is not to prevent such a monumentally horrific event from happening again. History has shown that, to some degree ...