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What sets the project’s videos apart from other survivor testimonies — like those collected by the USC Shoah Foundation or the U.S. Holocaust Museum — is their brevity.
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Christine Dimattei, Sun Sentinel, 18 June 2025
For contemporary audiences, the description can also evoke the death marches of Jewish prisoners during the Shoah, the Hebrew term for the Holocaust.
—Agnes Mueller, The Conversation, 18 June 2025
Steinmetz shared her family’s story with the USC Shoah Foundation in an interview in 1998.
—Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 5 June 2025
Israel-Palestine sharpened the divide: Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre re-traumatized a community still marked by the Shoah, even as images of Gazan suffering resonated with Black memories of state violence.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 24 May 2025
From early on, the team was in touch with the USC Shoah Foundation, an organization founded by Steven Spielberg shortly after his 1993 film Schindler’s List.
—Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 12 May 2025
Even well-meaning efforts like Holocaust-education mandates and Shoah memorials ignore the layers and layers of Jewish history and complexity, leaving Jews as convenient abstractions for antisemites and conspiracy theorists.
—Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2025
The rabbi intones psalms and speaks about his mother, offering recollections of her and the principal details of her life: birth in the embers of the Shoah, Yiddishkeit, Soviet existence, antisemitism, immigration, courage, struggle, family, community, legacy.
—David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
In other words, the mindful recording of Holocaust survival stories for future generations (think Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation at the University of Southern California).
—Josh Weiss, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
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Christine Dimattei, Sun Sentinel, 18 June 2025
For contemporary audiences, the description can also evoke the death marches of Jewish prisoners during the Shoah, the Hebrew term for the Holocaust.
—Agnes Mueller, The Conversation, 18 June 2025
Steinmetz shared her family’s story with the USC Shoah Foundation in an interview in 1998.
—Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 5 June 2025
Israel-Palestine sharpened the divide: Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre re-traumatized a community still marked by the Shoah, even as images of Gazan suffering resonated with Black memories of state violence.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 24 May 2025
From early on, the team was in touch with the USC Shoah Foundation, an organization founded by Steven Spielberg shortly after his 1993 film Schindler’s List.
—Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 12 May 2025
Even well-meaning efforts like Holocaust-education mandates and Shoah memorials ignore the layers and layers of Jewish history and complexity, leaving Jews as convenient abstractions for antisemites and conspiracy theorists.
—Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2025
The rabbi intones psalms and speaks about his mother, offering recollections of her and the principal details of her life: birth in the embers of the Shoah, Yiddishkeit, Soviet existence, antisemitism, immigration, courage, struggle, family, community, legacy.
—David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
In other words, the mindful recording of Holocaust survival stories for future generations (think Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation at the University of Southern California).
—Josh Weiss, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
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“Shoah.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Shoah. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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