Ivan Wolkind, 56, Worked to Secure Jewish Los Angeles
June 12, 2024
Wolkind committed himself to protecting synagogues, schools and hundreds of other Jewish sites — and he did it with love, resolve and foresight.
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Urgent Campaign Records Eyewitness Accounts of Terror Attacks in Israel
December 4, 2023
USC Shoah Foundation Founder Steven Spielberg Reflects on Importance of October 7 Testimony Collection
Defying Horrors of Teenage Years in Auschwitz, Joshua Kaufman, 95, Embraced Life
June 30, 2023
Joshua’s reunion with the American soldier who liberated him at Dachau Concentration Camp was captured in the 2015 History Channel documentary The Liberators: Why They Fought.
Nearly 80 Years After the Holocaust, A Survivor Tells His Story
April 18, 2023
Gerald Szames was four years old when the Nazis invaded his Polish shtetl of Trochenbrod in 1941, but the images are vivid…
With Passion and Commitment, Kim Simon, 52, Shaped Vision and Culture of USC Shoah Foundation
March 10, 2023
Among her many roles, Kim served as interim executive director and managing director during her 28 years at USC Shoah Foundation-The Institute for Visual History and Education.
Rosh Hashanah Without Shul: 1939 and 2020
September 16, 2020
I know that my traumatized but fortified DNA can get through this, and much worse.
Philanthropist Anne Bernstein, 105
July 31, 2020
Anne Bernstein, matriarch of one of the founding families of the Los Angeles Orthodox community, died on June 17. She was 105.
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