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When I began interning with USC Shoah Foundation nearly “ four years ago, I had no idea that I would become so passionate — so engrossed with the power and potential of archival preservation. Had it not been for the Institute, I would not be embarking on a life-long journey as a writer and researcher in genocide studies, an aspiring academic who now seeks to create and develop my own visual history archive. Thank you to every donor for all of your support, and I hope you will continue to support the mission of the Institute and continue to instill in my peers and colleagues this profound humanitarian spirit I carry with me today.

ORLI ROBIN ”

USC Senior, Creative Writing Major Double Minor in Resistance to Genocide and Judaic Studies Co-Founder and Former President of USC Shoah Foundation Student Association

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November 2014

Dear Friends,

Our 20th anniversary year continues to be one of remarkable growth and achievement, thanks to you, the community of supporters who propel us forward. In the pages of this update, we gratefully share some highlights from the past year: expanding the influence of our values-based education programs; establishing a new Center for Advanced Genocide Research; studying the role of testimony in building social cohesion in Rwanda; combating anti- Semitism in France; and many more activities that have been fueled by donors with a purpose that dovetailed with ours. Testimony reached twice as many people during the past year compared to the prior year. Thank you for helping give the witnesses a voice in the world. Our task remains as urgent as ever: Incidents of violent hatred are rising globally. Headlines continue to spotlight racial, ethnic and sectarian conflicts. There are tremendous challenges ahead that we will rise to meet with the continued leadership of our supportive community. We hope you share our pride in the accomplishments of the past year, and our passion for the work ahead as we strive toward changing the world through testimony.

Sincerely,

STEPHEN D. SMITH ROBERT J. KATZ STEPHEN A. COZEN Andrew J. and Erna Finci Viterbi Chair, USC Shoah Foundation Chair, USC Shoah Foundation Initiative Executive Director Chair, Board of Councilors Member, Board of Councilors USC Shoah Foundation UNESCO Chair on Genocide Education

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Changing the World Through Testimony

107,723 62,000 1.3 million hours of video testimony indexed and searchable to the minute keywords names

53,583 testimonies 61 countries 39 languages

3.4 million 39,000 educators

PEOPLE WHO VIEW TESTIMONIES PER YEAR NUMBER OF EDUCATORS WORLDWIDE FACTS INCORPORATING TESTIMONY INTO CLASSROOM LESSONS

445 courses based on the Visual History Archive (VHA) 2 have been taught at universities on four continents hours

More than 200 educators have participated in advanced training and the Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century programs in the U.S., Ukraine, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. TESTIMONIES AVERAGE OVER TWO HOURS IN LENGTH, INCLUDING PERSONAL HISTORY BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE WITH GENOCIDE.

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The Visual History Archive

50 921,014 partner institutions with access to the entire VHA students reached worldwide

Smaller collections of testimony from the VHA are available at 199 sites in 33 countries, and online, including the full data for the complete collection at vhaonline.usc.edu

279,867 students 400 testimonies

NUMBER OF STUDENTS REACHED FROM SURVIVORS AND WITNESSES OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BEING INDEXED VIA EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH AND WILL BEGIN TO BE INTEGRATED INTO THE VISUAL HISTORY ARCHIVE BY THE PER YEAR 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN APRIL 2015

12    testimonies from witnesses of      the 1937 Nanjing Massacre    

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Milestones

Education Academic Community Advancement

06/17/2013 10/14-21/2013 01/27/2014 03/06/2014 Swedish International Mission to Hungary Steven Spielberg Hungary: ITeach Development Agency and Poland addresses UN Educator Seminar Funds $6.8 Million for International Launches 11/01/2013 Peace-building Program Holocaust Memorial in Rwanda Rwanda Hosts Its Ceremony 03/19/2014 First-Ever IWitness 02/12/2014 Associated Press 10/03/2013 Teacher Training “Big Story” Published Rwandan President George Clooney covering 20th Paul Kagame Visits the Anniversary of USC Honored at New York Institute Ambassadors for Shoah Foundation Humanity Gala 03/24/2014 Memories of the 12/03/2013 Forgotten Holocaust Lecture by Institute Pennsylvania: IWitness Fellow Douglas Community Event Greenberg at Main Line Reform Temple 04/01/2014 Ukrainian Human Rights Teacher’s Guide Posts Online

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10/03/2013 02/20/2014 04/01/2014 Stephen D. Smith Rape as a Weapon USC Genocide Named UNESCO of War: Conversation Awareness Month Chair on Genocide with Zainab Hawa launched by USC Education Bangura, UN Special Shoah Foundation Representative on 11/07/2013 Student Association 09/05/2013 Sexual Violence in Scholars Yehuda Bauer Conflict 03/25/2014 Rwandan Testimonies and Xu Xin Lecture Testimony: The Legacy Added to IWitness at USC 01/29/2014 of Schindler’s List and UNESCO Paris USC Shoah Foundation 07/16-17/2013 Headquarters exhibits Book Release Board of Councilors 10/09/2013 Journeys Through the Retreat China: USC Shoah Holocaust 03/06/2014 Foundation Presents Student Voices Film 05/16/2013 at Association of 01/06/2014 Contest 4th Annual Next Generation Holocaust Organizations IWitness Goes Live on Screening and Award Council Established Conference iPads and Tablets Ceremony

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04/01-08/2014 04/24/2014 05/09/2014 08/21/2014 Mission to Rwanda Armenian Genocide Mohammed Dajani Yom IWitness Commemoration HaShoah Scholar- completes beta at USC: Keynote by in-Residence Lecture with enhanced Stephen Smith 06/07/2014 functionality Crimean Teachers Attend USC Shoah 04/08-05/25/2014 Foundation Oral History and Human Rights Days of Seminar in Kyiv Remembrance: PastFORWARD 06/25/2014 Broadcast via Comcast $5 Million Gift From 05/07/2014 Corporation Andrew and Erna Viterbi President Barack Obama Endows USC Shoah 04/21/2014 Honored at Los Angeles Foundation Executive Armenian Film Ambassadors for Director Chair Foundation Delivers Humanity Gala Digitized Testimony 05/09/2014 Collection Steven Spielberg Dedicates Founder’s Circle Plaque

04/24/2014 06/26/2014 Blavatnik Archive 05/05/2014 Echoes and Exhibit Opens at USC: 08/27/2014 Today Show airs Reflections Debuts Lives of the Great Steven Spielberg New Website and New Dimensions Patriotic War interview by Teacher’s Guide in Testimony 04/14/2014 Maria Shriver 06/11/2014 Pilot Filming Completed Philadelphia High End Sexual Violence 05/02/2014 School Student in Conflict UK Global Ruth Hernandez USA WEEKEND Summit Wins IWitness Video Cover Story on 20th Challenge Anniversary of USC 06/01-07/2014 Shoah Foundation Guatamala Research Trip 04/04/2014 on 1981-1983 Genocide Czech Republic: 04/25/2014 IWalks Educational Center for Advanced 05/21/2014 Walking Tour With Genocide Research UNESCO Publishes Testimony Launches Announcement and Article on IWitness’s in Prague Launch Effect on Students

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Improving International Understanding San Diego Friends Testimony-based Education million people who were murdered in France. The Teaching with for no other reason than the Nazis Through the work of Testimony programs are used didn’t like them.” USC Shoah Foundation throughout Europe to train The Wohls are confident that San Diego Friends and educators in fully utilizing the USC Shoah Foundation can make leadership of co-chairs Erna Visual History Archive in their a difference at home and abroad. Viterbi and Phyllis Epstein, classrooms, including testimonies “This work is vitally important. a dynamic and vibrant from the students’ own regions and The Institute knows how to speak to committee has been in their own languages. people through education,” she says. recruited. The purpose of The couple also remains actively the group is to introduce Diane Wohl and her husband, involved as leaders and supporters “The testimonies can educational resources Howard, have supported USC of numerous Jewish nonprofits. chip away at misconceptions developed by the Institute Shoah Foundation since before Diane Wohl first learned about and anti-Semitism and really to schools, educators and it became part of the university. the Holocaust when she was 10 make a difference in people’s students throughout San They appreciate how the Institute years old and her mother told her thinking. The Institute can Diego County. In particular, brings people together and, as about Anne Frank. also be an important advocate the committee members Diane puts it, “can slice out all “It was only later in life that I for justice, for all people, are introducing IWitness, the propaganda and hate with its really felt more connected to the for anybody who fights for the educational website visual testimonies.” Holocaust,” she says. “I wanted to religious freedom and freedom developed by USC Shoah Their gifts through the Diane help educate people, to help them of any sort, to be able to live Foundation which brings and Howard Wohl Family understand that the Holocaust was a fulfilling life.” over 1,300 testimonies Foundation include recent funding a horrific act that happened to the DIANE WOHL to secondary school for Teaching with Testimony: Jews, but that it also affected 11 teachers and students via multimedia learning activities. IWitness Transforms Young Minds “I am excited to see more teachers All around the world, IWitness is taking a stand to fight against in IWitness. The projects in the San Diego area proving a powerful motivator in discrimination. highlighted issues from women’s utilize this curriculum. increasing empathy, responsibility The IWitness program inspired rights to racial profiling. One I facilitated a training and action in young people. Hernandez to take action. student focused on children of at E3 Civic High School Now used in all 50 states and She participated in a peaceful Holocaust survivors who were and the teachers were a total of 58 countries, IWitness protest for immigration reform without parents and eventually impressed with IWitness was developed by USC Shoah in Philadelphia. Protest footage adopted. The student also had as a teaching tool. At the Foundation to connect secondary is included in her video along been adopted, making the learning end of the session, they school students with the Visual with the testimony of Holocaust experience deeply personal. asked when I could come History Archive of testimonies. survivor Leo Fettman talking Michelle explains,“IWitness has back and give them In the United States, the about how he and his family had become an invaluable teaching tool further training!” program has had great impact on 10 minutes to leave their homes for to help students better understand students and teachers from coast the ghetto. the consequences of their own MICHELLE SADRENA CLARK to coast. Hernandez’s exemplary video actions and to have them under- Teacher, High Tech High School When Ruth Hernandez, a student won the 2013 IWitness Video stand the profound impact their USC Shoah Foundation at Esperanza Academy Charter Challenge. words and actions have on the lives Regional Consultant, San Diego High School in Philadelphia worked of other people.” with IWitness, she resonated with “It feels great to help people Holocaust survivors whose families with their battles while learning For further information were torn apart as they were forced from their experiences.” on introducing IWitness to leave their homes. Her own father to educators in your had to leave his home in El Salvador In San Diego County, Michelle local community, please amid a full-fledged civil war. Sadrena Clark, 11th grade teacher contact Melissa Saragosti In the IWitness video she at High Tech High North County at 213-740-3468 or made Voices of Our Journey, Ruth and regional consultant for the [email protected]. features her father, and she speaks Institute’s Southern California in Spanish and English about region, got her students involved

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IWitness

IWitness, an award-winning educational website developed by the Institute for middle and high school teachers, brings testimonies from the Visual History Archive to 1,390 students via engaging multimedia learning activities across a number of disciplines. testimonies in IWitness

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273,552 691 105 58

CUMULATIVE VISITS STUDENT GROUPS ACTIVITIES AUTHORED COUNTRIES WHERE FACTS (2011-PRESENT) PARTICIPATING ON USING IWITNESS IWITNESS IS USED IWITNESS ACTIVITY BUILDER

UNIQUE VISITORS BY YEAR

60,000

50,000 54,373

45,527 40,000 20 minutes 30,000

20,000 24,358 AVERAGE TIME VISITORS SPEND 10,000 ON SITE

1525 0 FY11 FY12 FY13 FY14

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Translating Research to the Public Arena

Douglas and Margee Greenberg University, his alma mater. “The practice of historical may have ended their day-to-day “One of the key reasons for scholarship is being involvement with USC Shoah creating the fellowship is the fact transformed by the use of Foundation when he stepped down that the Institute is now based at visual images, especially as executive director in 2008, but a research university,” explains moving images. The USC Shoah they remain deeply committed Margee. “We wanted to support Foundation archive is actually supporters and benefactors. Their the academic side of the Institute’s precedent-setting at latest gift established the Margee work in a more robust way.” that level as well.” and Douglas Greenberg Research The Institute’s educational DOUG GREENBERG Fellowship, an endowed fund mission is something they both providing permanent support for care passionately about. He has outstanding Ph.D. candidates focused much of his illustrious The couple’s endowed gift advancing testimony-based career on translating scholarly will ensure a consistent funding research. research for use in schools and stream is forever available to Doug Greenberg oversaw the the public arena. Her background further scholarly research at USC Institute’s move to USC, a task includes experience in public Shoah Foundation for generations he calls “the hardest and the best secondary education. to come. thing” he did during his eight-year “Our principal objective is The Greenbergs consider their tenure before leaving to become that the Visual History Archive ongoing support an inadequate Distinguished Professor of History become a truly worldwide resource expression of what the Institute and Executive Dean of the School for scholarship,” Doug says. means to them. “It’s a debt we can of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers never fully repay,” Doug concludes.

Shared Experiences

Although they did not meet until Earlier this year, Ulrika traveled years later in New York, both to Rwanda as part of an Institute Ulrika Citron and her husband, delegation to commemorate the Joel, were born in Sweden, the chil- 1994 genocide, in which nearly a dren of survivors of the Holocaust. million people were slaughtered in “His story is very different just 100 days. The delegation also from mine,” she says. “We’re all experienced Institute programs unique stories.” Her paternal aimed at building peace and grandparents were killed, and reconciliation in a population her father survived in hiding as a still divided and scarred by those child in the Netherlands before events. later emigrating to Sweden. Joel’s “Hatred and dehumanization parents lived through Auschwitz- are all around us,” says Ulrika. Birkenau after being deported Still, she finds hope in the from Hungary at the ages of 12 connections made across cultural and 13. and linguistic barriers. “It was In addition to being children striking to see Rwandan students of survivors, the Citrons share learn from Holocaust survivors’ a passion for supporting USC testimonies.” She also witnessed Shoah Foundation. Joel is the the Rwandans’ interaction with a Vice Chair of USC Shoah 92-year-old Austrian Holocaust Foundation Initiative and sits survivor who was on the mission. “USC Shoah Foundation is the Jewish people. Genocide on the Institute’s Board of They embraced each other in not a museum. It’s about the can happen to any people at Councilors while Ulrika serves on instant friendship forged through future, and about education any time. The only way to stop the Next Generation Council. the shared language of survival. for everybody — because this this in the future is to educate experience is not limited to everyone about the past.”

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Sharing Testimony Across Continents

learning tool to broaden the under- digital educational activities. of the genocide focusing on the standing of the lasting impacts of The ACE Charitable experiences of a survivor named genocide and to motivate social Foundation recently awarded a Kizito. In a collaborative project, change. With ACE’s support, the new three-year grant to incor- the Institute and classrooms in partners preserved and indexed porate Rwandan testimonies New Jersey and Rwanda will a collection of testimonies from into IWitness, the Institute’s complete the activity together, eyewitnesses and survivors of the educational website that enables sharing their insights and learning 1994 Rwandan Genocide Against teachers and students to interact from one another. The ACE Charitable Foundation the Tutsi. Working in Rwanda, with more than 1,300 testimonies has been a generous long-term the partners built local capacity from the VHA. The grant The ACE Charitable supporter of the Institute’s for the development and growth advances the development of Foundation’s support work in Rwanda. Previously, of KGMC’s archive of testimonies an English-language learning is allowing the Institute to the Foundation provided multi- and artifacts documenting the activity that can be accessed by share these stories across year support for the Institute’s genocide. Today, a collection of American and Rwandan students, continents to help build work with local partners Aegis 66 Rwandan testimonies are also and IWitness users around the a more peaceful world. Trust and the Kigali Genocide part of the Visual History Archive world. In April 2014, the Institute Memorial Center (KGMC) to (VHA), and the Institute is com- launched an IWitness activity in explore the use of testimony as a mitted to using them in a range of honor of the 20th commemoration

Supporting Awareness and Action

Carolann S. Najarian, M.D., was physician, working extensively on drawn to USC Shoah Foundation human rights issues, and assisting through her involvement with the Armenian people — including the Armenian Film Foundation spearheading a significant medical (AFF). When she learned that relief effort after an earthquake the AFF’s 400 filmed interviews destroyed most of northern Testimonies from the 1937 of Armenian Genocide survivors Armenia in 1988. Nanjing Massacre, the would be added to the Institute’s “The specifics of genocide Holocaust, and other acts of archives, she and her husband, need to be constantly kept in mass violence can be highly K. George Najarian, made a the forefront of the public’s eye, effective in inspiring students generous gift to support the effort. especially our American public,” to oppose intolerance. “Now our survivors’ stories can she says. “They may know a little They are powerful tools be accessed and used for research, bit more about the Holocaust than that people with diverse and their stories will be heard,” they know about the Armenian backgrounds can use to better says Carolann. “The Armenian Genocide or the Khmer Rouge in understand history and learn people as a whole should be very Cambodia, but many people don’t from past mistakes. excited about this.” know the specifics — and they Her father, Avedis Abrahamian, don’t realize how history can be “All human beings belong to survived the Armenian Genocide repeated.” one another. People need to but lost dozens of family learn from atrocities such as members. He was 9 years old in “We are one world. the Holocaust, the Nanjing 1915 and after journeying for 6 To eradicate any ethnic group Massacre, and other horrific years, arrived in the United States is to diminish the overall acts of brutality. USC Shoah at age 15. Throughout his life mosaic of humanity.” Foundation’s work is vitally he remained keenly aware and important and very worthy outspoken about issues of injustice USC Shoah Foundation expects of global support.” around the world and in his new to have an initial set of Armenian country, having experienced it testimonies integrated into the CECILIA CHAN firsthand in his former homeland. Visual History Archive by April Managing Director of Octonovem, Carolann, inspired by her 2015, the 100th anniversary of USC Shoah Foundation father’s ideals, became a dedicated the Armenian Genocide. Next Generation Council Member

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20th Anniversary HONORING Ambassadors for George Clooney Humanity Galas New York City • October 3, 2013 A B

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From left to right: A Tamar Mashigian, Joanee Hagopian, Toni Hagopian, and Sandra and Paul Kalemkiarian B George Clooney and Steven Spielberg C USC President C. L. Max Nikias, Robert J. Katz, Niki C. Nikias, George Clooney, Steven Spielberg, and Stephen D. Smith D Gabriel Erem, Daniel Erem and Alex Blavatnik E Lily Safra and Daisy Miller F Mark Rounbehler, Nancy Rounbehler, Steven Spielberg, Steve Cozen, Lori Rosenberg, George Clooney, Sandy Cozen, Cathi Snyder, Sheri Resnik, and Ken Resnik G Jim and Andrea Gordon, and Ann and Andrew Tisch H Leon and Leesa Wagner I Rebecca Stern, Jason Stern, Sarah Miller, and Larry Stern J Dr. Samuel and Gail Suede, and Kathy and Richard Leventhal K Trudy Gottesman, Miriam Esterkis, and Judy and Steve Elbaum L Sumreen Meer, Austin Cordero, Steven Spielberg, Farhan Chowdhury, George Clooney, Brandon Eng, and Hope Harris

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President Barack Obama Los Angeles • May 7, 2014

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Dynamic New Vision for the Visual History Archive

Lee Liberman has been a the heart of the Institute’s mission to encourage the growth of USC stalwart supporter of USC and the VHA is the foundation for Shoah Foundation’s educational Shoah Foundation since 1999 every program the Institute offers. and scholarly networks. The and a member of the Board of VHA platform will build global Councilors since 2007. A resident “In teaching with testimony, thought-sharing, scholarship and of Melbourne, Australia, Lee is USC Shoah Foundation interdisciplinary academic coop- a dedicated philanthropist with crystallizes the simple lessons eration. An engaged international charitable interests that extend of humanity; what it means audience will ensure that the to Israel, the United States to be moral and responsible VHA is a living, growing entity and Africa. She has long been citizens of the world.” that helps people make meaningful personally invested in the Visual connections. With Lee’s support, History Archive (VHA) and She is now turning her attention the VHA will become a dynamic was instrumental in establishing to the Visual History Archive self-perpetuating digital facility a VHA access site at Monash Program and is making a major supporting a diverse worldwide University in Melbourne. investment that will allow the community invested in responsible Lee has supported the indexing Institute to rebuild the archive’s civil engagement. of 400 Australian Holocaust infrastructure with new interfaces survivor testimonies, as well as to provide better, broader and more the Institute’s testimony-based seamless access to the testimonies. education programs in both the The grant will also support the U.S. and Australia. Testimony is at development of new functionalities

A Moral Imperative Potential to Reach Millions “Chronicling the moving and “USC Shoah Foundation’s powerful stories of the Holocaust goal of educating about the From April 8 - May 25, 2014, “Through all of our programs is a moral imperative for all, Holocaust serves such an which coincides with National and partnerships, our company regardless of religious faith important role in ensuring Days of Remembrance, works to make a positive and background”, said Dan that our world never sees such 219,000 viewers throughout the difference in our communities, Hilferty, president and CEO of horrors again.” United States watched Days of and equally important, to inspire Independence Blue Cross (IBC). Remembrance: PastFORWARD, others to do the same,” Black said. Hilferty himself is Catholic and IBC has been part of the a suite of Institute-related Comcast is in a position to share his faith is deeply important to him. community for more than 75 content on Comcast’s XFINITY the work of the Institute to a broad “Two of the many shared years, he said, adding, “We want On Demand. audience and is stepping up. values of the Catholic and Jewish our members to know that we’ll This series, which brings traditions are that of the impor- be there for them when they need audiences award-winning films, “At Comcast, we believe tance of education and service to us, sometimes in the most difficult documentaries, full-length the stories of Holocaust one’s community,” Hilferty said, and trying times in their lives.” testimonies and curated videos and genocide survivors explaining why the health insurer Without the work of the will bring fresh Institute are critical to share. And based in Philadelphia has been Institute, thousands of survivor programming to Comcast our company has a unique a loyal supporter of USC Shoah and witness stories would be lost audiences every spring for the opportunity to leverage Foundation. forever, he said. next four years. technology and platforms to During the Days of “I am so proud of our support of Vice President and Executive reach and educate millions Remembrance commemoration the Institute and to be a part of this Director of the Comcast of people about prejudice, this year, Independence Blue Cross incredibly important endeavor.” Foundation Bill Black said intolerance and bigotry.” supported Days of Remembrance: Comcast is committed to broad- PastFORWARD, a suite of ening the reach of important testimony-based programming organizations and causes like brought to viewers by Comcast. USC Shoah Foundation.

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Local Testimonies, Connecting in a New Dimension Global Impact Hearing Holocaust survivors Smith splits his time between “The quality of the tell their stories in person is a California and Washington, interviews and the quality of The Koret Foundation in San powerful experience — and one D.C., where he works with the the presentation, is second to Francisco awarded a major that Next Generation Council United States Holocaust Memorial none. And everyone connected matching grant supporting member Louis Smith worried Museum’s First Person speakers’ with the Institute is so a project that is a model would soon be lost forever. So program. He’s witnessed how dedicated.” for the preservation of when he learned about New hearing directly from survivors can Holocaust testimony Dimensions in Testimony engage an audience. By supporting He hopes future generations around the world. The (NDT), a project of USC Shoah USC Shoah Foundation through will also appreciate the oppor- Institute partnered Foundation, he wanted to give to NDT, Louis hopes to preserve tunity for real-time exposure to with the Jewish Family help realize its potential. such opportunities. survivors and their stories. “I can’t and Children’s Services Created in partnership with His devotion to the project grew complain about anything when I Holocaust Center to digitize the USC Institute for Creative after seeing demonstrations of the listen to them. It puts everything and preserve the Center’s Technologies, NDT uses 3D technology. “I feel privileged to in perspective.” videotaped Bay Area videotaping and advanced be a part of it. I thought maybe it testimonies. The tapes, voice-recognition technology to would look a little artificial, but it including discussions create interactive representations doesn’t. Keeping their experiences of Kindertransport and of Holocaust survivors. The digital alive is so important.” resistance groups, are likenesses will be able to field The care taken with the irreplaceable. questions in real time long after Institute’s existing collection of the survivors themselves are gone. more than 53,000 witness testimo- “This project not only “It’s a way to keep their memory nies gives Louis confidence NDT preserves local treasures, and their experiences alive, in kind is in good hands. but makes the material of a real way,” says Smith. available and accessible to scholars worldwide,” said Koret Foundation CEO Jeff Farber. “As the Sharing Testimony through Innovative New Technology generation of Holocaust survivors and witnesses “This extraordinary and receive answers as if he were truly comes to pass, each of innovative project is at the present. This innovation, made these recorded stories cutting edge of technology possible by Pears Foundation, will will be made available and pedagogical thinking to help ensure that the life stories of for future generations preserve survivor testimonies Holocaust survivors are continually through the USC Shoah for future generations.” shared with the public in new Foundation’s efforts.” ways. Long after the last survivor Using the latest in advanced has passed away, NDT will enable The Koret Foundation’s Pears Foundation, based in London, England, is generously digital recording, including young people to ask their own encouragement to engage proprietary Light Stage tech- questions and hear a survivor other supporters will supporting New Dimensions in Testimony (NDT). Developed nology, speech recognition, natural answer, as in a live conversation. greatly benefit the Bay language understanding and This experience will encourage Area, where residents in collaboration with the USC Institute for Creative Technologies dialogue management software, each viewer to reflect on the will be able to hear the the partners are constructing a consequences of the Holocaust and personal stories of local and Conscience Display, and supported by a consortium of com- uniquely interactive approach celebrate and honor the survivors’ Holocaust survivors to audiovisual testimony. The lives and bravery to tell their and witnesses. mitted donors, NDT is pioneering technology that allows visitors to partners recently completed stories, giving invaluable insight to engage in dialogue with photo-real filming NDT’s first interviewee, future generations. projected images of Holocaust Pinchas Gutter, a Polish survivor survivors. “Our family foundation who at age 10 lost his parents and is proud to be supporting New twin sister to the Holocaust. The Dimensions in Testimony,” said project’s final result will be an Pears Foundation Executive Chair educational exhibit that will allow Trevor Pears CMG. viewers to hear Pinchas speak, pose their own questions, and

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Connecting Generations

Susan Crown understands the and those who view it as distant granddaughters can speak to this importance of inspiring future history,” Susan explains. “It history — and the work of the generations to achieve extraordi- becomes ever-more important to Institute — in a uniquely personal nary goals. connect generations by retelling and meaningful way. They can Her industrialist and philan- the powerful stories contained in make a difference.” thropist grandfather, Henry the Visual History Archive. Crown, who founded Material The Next Generation Council Service, which merged with “The rising generation is is hoping to connect with the General Dynamics in 1959, extremely interested in this children and grandchildren of those inspired his son, Lester, who in issue, its potential to teach, whose testimonies are part of the turn, inspired Susan. and its power to move people USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual The Chairman of Owl Creek to action.” History Archive. To learn more, Partners LLP now seeks to herald please contact Lucy Goodman at USC Shoah Foundation’s mission “Holocaust survivors and [email protected]. to the next generation. As chair of witnesses have demonstrated great the Next Generation Council, she courage by sharing their stories leads the effort to educate, inspire with the world,” she continues. and engage the leaders of the future “Now it is up to us to carry in support of the Institute’s work. their messages forward. Second “Each day that passes creates and third generations have a further distance between those unique role to play. These sons who experienced the Holocaust and daughters, grandsons and

Ensuring Wider Reach

Andrew Intrater describes the Council, which promotes the western Ukraine. They later went events leading to his involvement organization’s goals worldwide. into hiding in a farmhouse. with USC Shoah Foundation as Currently, Andrew serves as Andrew has traveled with the “serendipitous.” Andrew, who one of the Council’s vice chairs Institute to Poland and Hungary, speaks Russian and Polish, was and supports efforts to make the witnessing firsthand the effective- traveling to Ukraine with a friend Institute’s educational resources ness of the Institute’s mission and whose parents were born there and available to broader audiences via how it is embraced by educators were Holocaust survivors. technology. and students. He did not know until the trip His company, Columbus Nova “A lot of local folks in Eastern began that his friend, Mickey Technology Partners, invests in Europe, most of them non-Jews, Shapiro, was a member of the world-class information tech- are devoting their time and energy Institute’s Board of Councilors. nology firms — emphasizes the to help put these education and Then Shapiro mentioned in importance of keeping memories cultural programs together,” he passing that Executive Director of genocide alive so that history says. “We just have to make sure Stephen Smith would cross paths doesn’t repeat itself. they’re broadcast using the most with them during the trip. “Time is your biggest enemy. modern communications technol- That fortuitous meeting led to As people get further and further ogies available to reach as many “a couple of days of very intense from events of the Holocaust and people as possible, particularly discussions.” Even though he Rwandan Genocide, they need to young people.” initially “had no intention of be educated. Memories are short.” getting involved,” he emerged from Like many on the Council, “When you put a human face their conversations a firm believer he is the child of a Holocaust on suffering, it’s very powerful, in the Institute’s work and in survivor. His father, aunt, and and I think it sticks with Smith’s vision. “He was just really grandparents survived as an intact people. We are all much more inspiring,” Andrew recalls. family — an unusual occurrence alike than we are different.” Not long afterward, he joined — by working as slave laborers the Institute’s Next Generation in their hometown of Galicia in

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Endowing Leadership

Andrew and Erna Viterbi need they have long supported the no reminders of the Holocaust’s Institute and its educational horrors to realize the value of USC mission. Recently, they endowed Shoah Foundation. “It’s our life the Andrew J. and Erna Finci history, our life story,” Andrew says. Viterbi Executive Director Chair. His family fled persecution in Endowed funds are vital to northern Italy during World War ensuring the Institute’s programs II and, through a complex and and long-term sustainability as difficult process, obtained visas to they provide permanent sources of the United States. Erna’s experi- financial support. ence was also harrowing: She and This is crucial, notes Erna her immediate family left their — who serves on the Board home in Sarajevo for the coastal of Councilors — because the area of Yugoslavia, where they Institute’s work extends beyond were taken prisoner and deported the Holocaust. “They’re forging to Italy. After the Armistice, ahead, including other genocides as the German occupation of and other people who have Northern Italy again placed suffered, and helping document also appreciate how effectively better people and make a better their lives in mortal danger, their stories,” she says. the Institute’s collection engages world for the future,” she adds. they escaped over the mountains The couple, whose name also students. to Switzerland. Tragically, the graces the USC Viterbi School “Exposing young people to this “This will have a big influence, majority of her relatives perished of Engineering, is especially horrific period in history through I believe, on this generation in concentration camps. impressed with the Institute’s these impactful first-hand reports and future generations.” Because the Viterbis understand use of technology to extract both is very important,” Andrew says. ERNA VITERBI the importance of preserving subtleties and general trends “It really gives them a chance to testimonies for later generations, from witness stories. The Viterbis learn and hopefully helps them be

How History Can Change the Future

Arthur Lev believes if young The Institute’s potential to On one such visit, Arthur people can experience history engage students not just in history plans to expose his three children directly rather than just reading but also in current events is to the Institute’s vital work, which about it in a book, they can important to him. “Genocides are he wants to help spread around change the world. That’s why still occurring today. I really hope the world. he and his wife Beth endowed the IWitness tool developed by “The IWitness tool is something an internship program at USC USC Shoah Foundation becomes that should be available on a global Shoah Foundation. a catalyzing force for students to basis,” he says. “The hub is at get involved.” USC, but the spokes are all over “There’s a Jewish phrase, Arthur, a cum laude graduate the world — whether at the ele- tikkum olam — to repair the of USC who went on to Harvard mentary, high school, or university world — that I view as an Law School, is now head of the levels. You have kids looking at a ongoing obligation,” global Long-Only and Alternative testimony and saying ‘That could Investment Partners businesses have been me. I could have been Exposing students to USC of Morgan Stanley Investment in those shoes.’ It’s a very powerful Shoah Foundation’s Visual Management in New York. Even way to create empathy and teach.” History Archive and giving with his busy schedule, he serves them the opportunity to conduct on the Board of Councilors for the research related to the Institute’s USC Dornsife College of Letters, work is one way he hopes to meet Arts and Sciences and makes that obligation. regular visits to campus.

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My Family’s Lived Experience

Wendy Smith Meyer first learned of the Institute for more then a about USC Shoah Foundation in decade. 1996, when her parents, Alfred Barry has long been passionate and Selma Benjamin, gave their about supporting Jewish causes. testimony. She attended part of He was at the helm of Warner the interview, when her parents, Bros. when the studio produced who grew up in Nazi Germany, Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of gave their first-person accounts of the Kindertransport, the Academy increasing Jewish persecution. Award-winning documentary Her uncles, Owen and Edgar about a rescue operation that Hirsch, and aunt, Elise Le Hu, saved more than 10,000 Jewish also gave testimony. children from capture during Nazi “The reach, horror and effects Germany. of the Holocaust have been real to “My husband’s critical support me since childhood because they of Into the Arms honored the were a real part of my family’s sacrifices of families torn apart lived experience,” Wendy said. “As during these years in a way similar a young person, I read everything to USC Shoah Foundation’s work,” I could about the Holocaust, in an Wendy said. “He, too, feels a deep “The work of USC attempt to understand how such connection to the mission.” Shoah Foundation is precious. things could have happened.” Together, the couple wants Its role in preserving a painful A clinical associate professor and to help ensure that the Institute part of human history is as associate dean at the USC School continues to educate present important as its role in making of Social Work, Wendy and her and future generations about the future of all peoples more husband Barry Meyer, former the dangers of racism, nation- respectful and accepting of chairman and CEO of Warner alistic extremism and religious difference and variation.” Bros., have been ardent supporters discrimination. WENDY SMITH MEYER

Shared Cross-Cultural Principles

Masako Togo Kasloff and her Foundation, the Malibu couple the Visual History Archive late husband Philip were drawn vowed to help stop discrimination encourages students and all to USC Shoah Foundation after and intolerance through their viewers to become better people. hearing the testimony of Dario work with the Institute. “Tragically, many forms of Gabbai, who was forced to work After Philip’s death in December discrimination and intolerance as a Sonderkommando in the 2006, Masako stayed involved. still exist today,” Masako acknowl- crematoria at Auschwitz during edges. “There are young students the Holocaust. “Any people, anywhere can who fall victim to bullying and Dario shared details of what fall victim to discrimination. bigotry. Through the work of USC he witnessed before his liberation It’s my greatest hope that the Shoah Foundation and the sharing from Ebensee concentration camp work of USC Shoah Foundation of testimonies, the hope is that in Austria when the war ended. will continue to provide young people will be inspired to He was at Auschwitz until it’s the education our society care for the welfare of others and evacuation in January 1945. needs to end all forms of come to the realization that we all “Dario shared many tragic, heart- discrimination.” deserve to be treated with dignity breaking stories with us,” Masako and respect.” recalled. “So painful to hear.” The couple’s foundation She learned more about this promotes cross-cultural under- history through her husband’s standing and education between activities in the Jewish com- America and Japan. munity and the couple’s many The Institute has the same trips to Israel. Founders of the educational and cross-cultural Philip and Masako Togo Kasloff principles, she said, adding that

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Keeping Memories Alive

Worried about conjuring bad certain segments of the population a German business associate of memories, Ilse Delman was virtually deny that the Holocaust Ernest Nathan. In 1946, with the initially reluctant to share her story ever occurred,” says Abner. war over, the family moved to the with USC Shoah Foundation. But That is why they have included United States. after meeting with Institute staff, a major gift in their estate — encouraged by her friend Anita a planned gift honoring the “Besides combating Mayer, who had contributed her memory of Ilse’s parents, Ernest different types of own testimony, and supported and Erna Nathan. discrimination all over the by her husband, Abner Delman, The Nathans, including then world, the Institute provides M.D., Ilse shared her memories. A 6-year-old Ilse, were forced from education, and documents and decade later, she remains grateful their hometown of Frankfurt, records these experiences to Through their planned gift, that her story will live on through Germany, and fled to Tilburg, help to keep the memory of the the Delmans will leave their own the archive. in the Netherlands in 1933. Holocaust alive. This work is a legacy while helping secure the The Delmans, who have been When the German’s invaded the very worthwhile thing to help Institute’s future. married for 41 years, became Netherlands in 1940, Ilse and sustain, and that’s why dedicated supporters after first her parents were forced to go into we decided to make learning about the Institute’s hiding. They stayed for a year with a planned gift.” work. The couple is committed to a Dutch family before having to DR. ABNER DELMAN ensuring the Institute continues to go deeper into hiding — living thrive for generations to come. in the upper portion of a barn for “Increasingly, as the years go by, 18 months, supplied with food by

Eradicating Dehumanization

Dr. Judy Alpert is the child Judy said the gathering and different, based on religion, race, of Holocaust survivors. Born the preservation of testimony are gender, sexual orientation, and a in Hungary during the 1956 profoundly important in educating host of other reasons for dehuman- revolution, she and her parents future generations about history. ization, makes it all the easier to escaped to the United States from “And preventing historical marginalize — or worse.” Budapest when she was 10. Her revisionists from denying and dis- husband, Dr. Mark Alpert, was torting factual events,” said Judy, born during World War II and a jazz vocalist, pianist, arranger, is acutely aware that if he had college professor, and published been born where his grandparents music researcher. fled the pogroms in the late A USC alumnus and the Mark 19th century, he would have not I. Foley’s Professor in Retailing at survived the Holocaust. The University of Texas at Austin, “We owe an unpayable debt to Mark said the Institute’s testi- those who perished,” said Mark, monies can help students develop explaining why he and Judy give to empathy, embrace tolerance and USC Shoah Foundation annually. reject bullying, bigotry and racism. “I visited Dachau [concentration “We want to do everything camp] when I was 22, and I have we can to honor their had a hard time with racial jokes memory. And to remind future and stereotypes ever since,” he generations of the lost lives said. “I realized that anything that and contributions to humanity permits us to think of others as of those whose murders left all less human, or less worthy, based of us poorer as human beings.” on what we want to think of as DR. MARK ALPERT our ‘superiority’ to those we deem

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Honor Roll of Donors

USC Shoah Foundation $1,000,000 and Above The Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund Stiftung EVZ Trudy Elbaum Gottesman & Sullivan & Cromwell wishes to thank the following Ulrika & Joel Citron Robert W. Gottesman Ann & Andrew Tisch Comcast Corporation individuals, foundations Margee & Douglas Greenberg United Armenian Charities, Sandy & Stephen Cozen Marcy Gringlas, Joel Greenberg and Melanie Dadourian and corporations for their Dana & Yossie Hollander Seed the Dream Foundation Sanford B. Weiss generous support. Koret Foundation Mellody Hobson & George Lucas Xbox Entertainment Studios Lee Liberman Charitable Foundation Independence Blue Cross Roy J. Zuckerberg Family Foundation Erna & Andrew Viterbi This list acknowledges supporters, Robert J. Katz Zynga.org Leesa & Leon Wagner who made outright gifts, grants Deborah & Wayne Zuckerman and Ruth & Steven Katz $25,000 - $49,999 and pledges from January 1, 2013 $500,000 - $999,999 Kathleen Kennedy & Frank W. Marshall Nicole & David Abrams through June 30, 2014. Pears Foundation Caroline & Sidney Kimmel Hallee & David Adelman Madeline & Bruce Ramer, Eileen & Howard William P. Lauder Paul G. Allen Brown, Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown Ricky & Ralph Lauren Michael Aram Mickey Shapiro Leichtag Foundation Avenue Capital Group Louis Franklin Smith Foundation and Lee Liberman & Leslie Reti Jacqueline & Howard Banchik Louis F. Smith Beth & Arthur Lev Leslie Berger Stanley’s Garden Foundation Karen & Herb Lotman Foundation The Stanley and Joyce Black Participant Media Family Foundation $250,000 - $499,999 Tyler Perry Sandra & Sidney Brown Victor Pinchuk Foundation Cecilia Chan Betsy & Philip Darivoff John & Lisa Pritzker Family Foundation Department for International Development, Anne & Kirk Douglas Harry L. Robinson United Kingdom DreamWorks Studios Monica & Philip Rosenthal, Carmel & Eric Greenberg Beverly & Daniel Floersheimer Rosenthal Family Foundation Jewish Family and Children’s Services of Jami Gertz & Antony Ressler Lily Safra, The Edmond J. Safra Foundation San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin, Andrea & Jim Gordon, Judges Judy & Jerry Sheindlin and Sonoma Counties The Edgewater Funds Marta Kauffman & Michael Skloff Harry Krakowski Helene & George Gould Rebecca & Lawrence Stern George & Irina Schaeffer Foundation Ann & Kenneth C. Griffin 20th Century Fox Film & 21st Century Fox Skirball Foundation International Holocaust Viacom/Paramount Pictures Swedish International Development Remembrance Alliance The Walt Disney Company Cooperation Agency Tammie & Daniel Kramer Warner Brothers Entertainment Turner Broadcasting System Aliza & Guillermo Liberman Diane and Howard Wohl Theodore and Renee Weiler Foundation, Inc. Beverly Spector & Kenneth Lipson Family Foundation McKinsey & Company Alice & Lorne Michaels $50,000 – $99,999 “Young people, and even JP Morgan Chase & Company Terry & Russel Bernard Beth & Joshua Nash middle-aged people these days, Joyce Klein & Jerry Breslauer, Eva & Mickey Marcia & Ron Rubin do not know the history even of Rutman, Tammy & Steve Anderson, Wendy & Kenneth A. Ruby their own country, but certainly Breslauer, Rutman & Anderson Saint James Trust Barbra Streisand & James Brolin Wendy & Edward O. Sassower not of the world and what it went Cinemark USA Mary B. Scanlan Family Foundation through for a horrendous period Discovery Communications Jane & Terry Semel in the middle of the 20th century. Susan & Robert Downey, Jr. Jocelyn Strauber & Mark Gordon Embraer Executive Jets Tapper Charitable Foundation Exposing them to the history is Feintech Family Foundation Robert & Jane Toll Foundation very important, especially through Lori, Mark & Elizabeth Fife Union Bank first-hand reports, which are the Rita Wilson & Tom Hanks Harriet & Larry Weiss, CRW Graphics Hawthorn PNC Family Wealth Samantha & John Williams most impactful.” IAC Foundation Wunderman Family Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles Nanar & Tony Yoseloff ANDREW VITERBI Stacey Snider & Gary Jones Marilyn & Jeffrey Katzenberg $10,000 – $24,999 KCD, Inc., Multidisciplined Creative Source $100,000 - $249,999 Joseph Alexander Foundation Wendy & Barry Meyer Alpern Family Foundation Katie McGrath & J.J. Abrams Carolann S. Najarian, M.D. & Michael Richard Amerian Family Foundation K. George Najarian Anastasia Beverly Hills, Inc. ACE Charitable Foundation NBC Universal Entertainment Media LLC Armenian Film Foundation Lynne & Marc Benioff Robin Chemers Neustein Avanessians Foundation The Blavatnik Family Foundation News America, Inc. Bank of America Charitable Fund Broadway Video Entertainment Ellen Porges & Andrew Dannenberg Belz Foundation Cozen O’Connor Foundation Sari & Israel Roizman Nvair & Zareh Beylerian Creative Artists Agency Courtney Sale Ross Franci Blassberg & Joe Rice The Crown Family Marilyn & Barry Rubenstein Bloomberg Susan Crown & William Kunkler Jonathan Sacks, Steven Shapiro & Carole & David Blum Ide & David Dangoor Steven Tananbaum Skip Brittenham & Ziffren Brittenham LLP Katherine Farley & Jerry Speyer Jessica & Jerry Seinfeld Eli & Edythe Broad Foundation Fischmann Family Foundation Beth & David Shaw Dr. Leon Bromberg Charitable Trust Lana & Victor Fuchs Skechers Foundation CBS Corporation The David Geffen Foundation Esta Eiger Stecher

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BOARD OF COUNCILORS FRONT ROW: (left to right) Anita Friedman, Erna Viterbi, Mickey Shapiro, Steven Spielberg, Lee Liberman, Marcy B. Gringlas, Stephen D. Smith and David Eisman BACK ROW: (left to right) Eric Greenberg, Yossie Hollander, Phyllis Epstein, Bruce Ramer, Jerome Coben*, Gerald Breslauer*, Stephen A. Cozen, Michael Rutman*, Russel S. Bernard and Robert J. Katz (Chair)

* Emeritus member

“Research is like a pebble thrown William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Susan Barba Teitler & Teitler into a pond. One scholar does some Neuberger Berman Jean & Charles Barsam Toufayan Bakery New 38th Floor Productions, Inc. Cecile and Fred Bartman Foundation Carol & Jerome Turk research, discovers something new, Frederick C. Nix Newton & Rochelle Becker Foundation Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and then that becomes something Gerald S. Papazian Belnord Hotel Corporation The Rafael & Diana Vinoly Foundation that ripples outward to touch Shirley Press & William Rapoport Renee Berliner Rush & Wylie Rush Stephanie & Allan Walsh The Erwin Rautenberg Foundation Lynn & Arthur Beylerian Wuliger Foundation students at every level.” Jessica & Tom Rothman Rafael Bild Zilkha Foundation, Inc. Hon. Nicole A. Avant & Ted Sarandos Helene Rosenzweig & Richard Block DOUGLAS GREENBERG Charles & Mildred Schnurmacher Foundation Lorig Boyajian & Ara Chorluyan $2,500 – $4,999 Debbie & Steve Shapiro Pearl & Paul Caslow and Bobbye Acopian Allen Shay The Paul Caslow Foundation Virginia & Andrew E. Adelson Cedars-Sinai Medical Center The Sheinberg Family Foundation Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Lana & Tom Areton Cheadle/Coutler Family Trust Eva & David Sheinberg Jean & Sanford Colen John & Hilda Arnold Foundation City National Bank The Sidney Milton and Leon & Toby Cooperman Family Foundation Bonnie Arnold & Robert Puglisi Carol & Jerome Coben Leoma Simon Foundation Dallas Holocaust Museum Gabriel T. Aslanian Crystal & Company SJS Charitable Trust Defamco, L.P. Deborah & Mark Attanasio CSM Foundation Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP Sam Devinki & Mary Stahl, Richard & Paola & Gevik Baghdassarian Ronnie & Louis Davidson Stuart & Susan Snyder Jennifer Devinki, Ethan Pack Leigh Randall Bass Deluxe Michael Sonnenfeldt Dinovo Price Ellwanger Hardy LLP Jenny Batlay DeWitt Stern Stila Cosmetics Sam Domb Shelly & Gary Belz Marsha & Lawrence Dworkin Honorable Cynthia Stroum Nancy Fisher & Mark Kirschner Mem Bernstein Jennifer & David Eisman Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Jennifer & Michael Forman Beth & Howard Bidna Tamar Ekeles & Larry Michaels Culture Artyn & Max Gardner Marcelline Block Phyllis & Dan Epstein Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation Barbara & James Gilmore Wendy & Morton Branzburg Calista Flockhart & Harrison Ford Robbi & Bruce Toll Arlene & Stanley D. Ginsburg Nicholas Brill Domenic Forino USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Sheila Goldman Laura & Michael Briller Michael Francis Amy & Jeffrey Verschleiser Dorothee Gottschalk Revocable Trust Gila Bronner Philip M. Friedmann Family Foundation Meryll & Joseph Warner Beth & David Greenwald Abbott Brown Barbara & Stephen Friedman Mary & John Wells Teni & Roger Hajjar Celia & Silas Chou Front Porch Digital Wilf Family Foundation Jane-Howard Hammerstein Ellen & Win Churchill Lucy Goldman Orna & Keenan Wolens Hilda & Saro Hartounian Suzanne & Norman Cohn Goldman Sachs Gives Harvard University Connelly Foundation Denise & Michael Goodman Heaton-Hunt Family Foundation Barbara & Gil Dembo Patrick E. Guilfoyle Louise Horvitz “The population is increasing so much Ann & Laurence Denihan Robert & Jane Harrison Family Foundation James Family Foundation Daniel J. Denihan Hasbro Studios that in order to keep ahead of the Hilda Jonas Donald G. Denihan Juliane Heyman curve and keep this at the forefront Ruth Kamaiko Flora & George Dunaians Home Box Office Carol & Edward Kaplan Foundation of people’s thinking, there have to Linda & Jeffrey Eisikowitz Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. Keith Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Howard D. Fabrick and EMC be really expansive and dynamic Carmela & Miguel Jack Koenig John Ferrari JLab Audio programs for education so we don’t Lynn & Jules Kroll Family Foundation Nila & Nazareth Festekjian Charles R. Johnson, Jr. Shirley & Major Langer look back 100 years from now and Firstrust Bank Lindy Snider & Larry R. Kaiser Laura & Gary Lauder Susanna & Michael Flaster Sandra & Paul Kalemkiarian, say, ‘Hey, we should have done this.’” Julie & Jerrold Levy Debra & Tim Fletcher Wine Club of the Month Margaret & David Mgrublian ANDREW INTRATER From You Flowers Masako Togo Kasloff J. M. Morgenstern Jennifer & Lionel Glancy Keck School of Medicine of USC Northern Trust Company Ann & Brad Globe Mark and Anla Cheng Kingdon Foundation Olitsky Family Foundation $5,000 - $9,999 Mike, Neil & Steve Goldberg Sidonia Lax Gayane & John Pridjian Susan Gooch & Harry S. Lederman Lazard Freres & Company Susanna Lachs Adler Patty Elias Rosenfeld & Michael Rosenfeld Shari & Michael Goodrich Lewie’s Group LLC Vandana Agarwal, M.D. Georgina & Thomas Russo Diane & Michael S. Gorfaine Jerome & Kenneth Lipper Foundation AJW Properties Management Peggy & Robert Shapiro Lois & Jack L. Graller MetricUSA Nicole Alper Patricia & Stanley Silver and Vera & Paul Guerin Mimi Alpert Feldman Bank of the West Leo S. Guthman Foundation Morgan Stanley & Company, LLC Guterman Family Foundation

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NEXT GENERATION COUNCIL Judy & Mark D. Lerner Richard and Emily Levin Foundation From left to right: Stephen D. Smith, Rachel Levin Melanie Dadourian, Marcy B. Gringlas, Carol Schild Levy & Marvin Levy Marsha Dworkin, Steven Spielberg, Robin & Benjamin Levy Dan Adler, Cecilia Chan, Zita & Morris Liebermensch and Mark Gordon George J. London Memorial Foundation Susan Lowenberg Susan & Michael Mann Christine & Shant Mardirossian Lori Rochelle Mars & David Fields Martha & Jeff Melvoin Minow Family Foundation Julie & Ken Moelis Madeleine & Jeffrey Moskowitz Jonathan Mostow Anne Meredith Mullaly Karen & Steven Nargizian Lourdes Nark The Haas Family Trust Amy & Jeffrey Louis Verschleiser Pearl Cohen Brooke & Daniel Neidich Joanne Hagopian & John Eknoian Judith and David Wachs Family Foundation Ronni Coulter Judi & Alfred Netter Irivng Harris Foundation Halina, Suzette & Arthur Wachtel Dauphin County Technical School Northwestern Mutual Life Jerry J. Hornstein Sharon & Peter Weinstein Sophie Degan Insurance Company Reena & Sam Horowitz Tali & Boaz Weinstein Kate Delacorte Valeria & Dario Nul Louise Horvitz, M.D. Tatyana & Michael Wexler Tracy Denmark & Marc Schwimmer Carolyn Okin Cheryl & Ron Howard Vicky White Frieda Dym Deborah A. Oppenheimer Tiffany Joy Israel Elizabeth G. & Steven Zaillian Shawn Dym Marcy C. Panzer Drs. Susan Jerian & David Essayan Barbara & David Zalaznick Foundation Tracey B. Early Jonathan Paret Laura, Ricki & Joel Kanter Ruth Ziegler Eileen & Dave Edman Deborah Paul Ronald Kaplan Marcy Epstein Sidney Phelps Lenore Katz-Cohen Vicky & Gary R. Erlbaum Jill & Jon Powell Phyllis & William Kessler Shirley Familian “A genocide is a genocide. Jeneane Prevatt Ellen & Robert Klapper Jill & Lenny Feinberg Helen & David Pudlin Joan Binder Koransky We’re all people. It can happen Elizabeth Garrett & Andrei Marmor Sandra Rocks & Bernard Plum Bob Leibowitz to any people at any time. That’s Lynne & Steven Gellman Drs. Susan Roitman & Alan Silverberg Anne Claire Lester Foundation Rebecca Gellman why USC Shoah Foundation’s work Daniel & Joanna S. Rose Fund Kelsa & Sheldon Liber Beverly & Joseph Gerber Joseph Rosen Foundation Gayle & Richard Milling is so compelling. To have these Rhona & Iche Gewelber Joyce & Edwin Rosenberg Mitchell & Hilarie Morgan testimonies as a teaching tool, Deborah & Max Gogut Helene Rosensweig, M.D. & Family Foundation Ilene & Stanley Gold to preserve the memory and then Richard Bock, M.D. Annika & David A. Muyres Susan & Jeffrey Goldberg Lyn M. Ross Myra & Stephen Nourmand share them throughout the world: Beverly Goldner Sheila & Richard Rozman Gohar & Diron Ohanian That’s a big takeaway.” Deborah & William Gorin Barbara Brown Ruttenberg & Genine & William Osher Patsy Graham John Ruttenberg Hermineh & Galoust Pakhanians ULRIKA CITRON H. Jane Gutman Ilene Safron Susan & David Pechman Mr. & Mrs. Andrew E. Haas Jeffrey Sanderson Penn Emblem Company Helen Haig Sauer Family Yom Hashoah Fund Sandra & David Perlmutter $1,000 - $2,499 Andrea & Barry Halejian Lillian Scharlin Irene Pletka Harco Industries, USA Janice & S. Peter Albert Eric Schiffer Samuel H. Pond Andrea & Brad Heffler Alpha General Contractors of NY, Inc. Segal Family Foundation M. Stephen Rasch Ira Hirschbach Sharon & Craig Altman Shirley & Ralph Shapiro Edith Ressler Sue & Larry Hochberg Ararat Home of Los Angeles Inc. Marcy & Robert Shoemaker Vicki Reynolds & Murray Pepper Lotte Hoffman Cecelia & Jeffrey Assaf Gloria Shulman Linda & Owen Robinson Marjorie & Jeffrey Honickman Carine & Bob Avakian Peggy Siegal Barbara & Richard Rothschild Henry H. Hoyt Michael A. Azarian Vicki & Leslie Silverman Lisa A. Rotmil Tamara R. Igel Mira Becker & Laura Becker Sandi Slap Nina Sabban Paula & Joseph Israel Hagop Belekdanian Ken Smuckler Pamela Schmider Ralph Italie Terry & Lionel Bell Constance Smukler Jodi & Steven Schwartz Lisa D. Janian Leslie & Alan Beller Cathi Cozen Snider Kimberly Schwartz & Bob Leibowitz, M.D. Andrea & Warren Kantor Martha & Barry Berkett Robin & Benjamin Steinman Roberta & Peter Schwartz Kimberly Katzovitz Lisa Berlin Linda & Murray Stempel Linda Shahinian Yuji Randall Kawana Steven Berlinger Mickey Stern W. Scott Shepherd Denise & Kenneth Kazarian Andrew D. Bernstein Margery Tabankin & Earl Katz Rebeka & Paul Sinclair Anahid Khatchian & Walt Logue Richard Bloom Newman Tanner Foundation Anna Slotky-Reitano & Lyn Slotky Christina Kind Virginia & Norman Bobins Jordan & Irene Tark Foundation Sidney Stern Memorial Trust Kimberly & Brett Kirchick Ellen Beth Bogolub & Neil Friedman Hermine & Malcolm Tarkanian Beth & David Sufian Mike Knaisch Lourdes Bottger Eva Teilmann Barbara & Dave Sylvan Lisa & Victor Kohn Jacob Burns Foundation, Inc. Anita Tetrault & Alan Charles Krieger Steven Tanenbaum Charles James Kramer Christine Chakmakian Jeanne Tumanian Linda & Dennis Tarzian Alan Krieger Carol & David Cislowski UJA Federation Elisa & Alex Taub Nancy & Morris Kurtzman Abby Cohen Andree Waid Temple University School of Medicine Ann Lander Jean E. Cohen Kim Wainwright & Seth Grosshandler TIOGA Foundation Marion Laurie Joseph M. and Barbara Cohen Foundation Waldman Foundation

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Naomi & Michael Weinberger Sturges Karban A.H. and Helen L. Weiss Foundation David M. Kies Make a Difference. Western Digital Technologies Sidney Kuflik Hope & Alan Winters Alfred Landess One person really can make a difference. If you Randi Zemsky Esther & Daniel Levy Debra & David Magerman would like to support USC Shoah Foundation, Matthew Manuelian here are some ways you can help: “The phrase ‘a picture is worth a Neiman Marcus Michael L. Meyer thousand words’ really does hold Debra & Alan Mibab CASH DONATIONS: Gifts may be made by cash, true. IWitness is a very powerful way Diana & Charles Mkhitarian check, or credit card. to create empathy and teach. If it’s Rose Moskowitz Sam Nash PLEDGES: Make a gift that is paid over several years, read about in textbooks, it doesn’t Mary & Denise Papazian have the same punch.” Russell Peterson on a payment schedule that is most convenient for you. Larry Raiman ARTHUR LEV Barry Ritholz PLANNED GIFTS: Planned gifts include wills, Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence L. Ronson charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts, Jonathan Rosenstein and annuities and may help you reduce or avoid $500 - $999 Jeffrey M. Rothstein income, gift, and inheritance taxes. Adrienne G. Alexanian Cele H. & William B. Rubin Family Fund Aine & Ara Araz Marian G. Sanders MEMORIAL OR TRIBUTE GIFTS: Honor special Shirley Saunders Thomas V. Ashbahian occasions such as birthdays, weddings, or births; Lee B. Balefsky Steven Schindler Robyn & Michael Barrett Valerie & Will Schwartz memorialize a friend or family member; send a tribute Garbis Baydar Robin Shaffert card from the Institute announcing the gift. Sharon Bellows Paul Shahinian Linda & Richard Berenson Mr. & Mrs. Carleton B. Shay IN-KIND GIFTS: Donate goods or services that fulfill Mark Sherman Alice Berglas programmatic needs. Jack Bienenfeld Stan Shore Reid N. Bodek Fred Silton Marcia McInnis Bond Sandra Bensman Silverstein To donate online visit: sfi.usc.edu/support Graydon H. Brittan Alex Sneiders Martin Brochstein Babette & Harvey Snider Amy & Marc Brownstein Robert Soergel For further information, contact: Jennifer Elaine Burns Dennis Andrew Sokol Aroussiag Christianian Janine & Adam Sokoloff NICOLE WATKINS Giuseppe Civitella Irwin Solomon Director of Donor Relations Olivia Cohen-Cutler Takouhy Soultanian USC Shoah Foundation Bernice & Arnold Spielberg John Cooke The Institute for Visual History and Education Elisabeth Depicciotto Russell Lewis Steinweg DeRossi & Sons, Company Donna & Harvey Sternberg University of Southern California Kathy & Jerry Drew William & Anna Tenenblatt Foundation Phone: (213) 821-9337 Helaine Dubner Ms. Monica Timpe-Godfrey Gail M. Title Bonnie & Jay Eisner For further information on Planned Giving, contact: Scott Evans Eva Vollmer Karen L. Farage Mr. & Mrs. Paul Vonberg Marjory & Brian Wargon STEVEN KLAPPHOLZ Stuart Feen Executive Director of Development Phyllis Fischer Faith & Sol Weiss Thomas Flesh Linda & James Wimmer USC Shoah Foundation Sam Fogel Justin and Genevieve Wyner Trust The Institute for Visual History and Education Zemeckis Charitable Foundation Cheri & Steven M. Friedman University of Southern California Julie Garcia Salvatore Zizza Hildegard H. Gernsheimer Renne & Joseph Zuritsky Phone: (213) 740-6051 Elizabeth Gevelber Janet R. Zykorie Tracy & Marc Ginsburg Jodi Dubner Gordon If you wish to change the way Jill M. Greenberg your name is listed, please Renee Joy Herst ANNUAL IMPACT REPORT • FALL 2014 Carole E. Heyl contact Nicole Watkins at Dr. Daniel D. Hillman (213) 821-9337. MANAGING EDITOR Nicole Watkins, Director of Donor Relations Steven Hitter Richard Hochman EDITORIAL TEAM Doris and Martin Hoffman Katie Alheim, Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations Family Foundation June Beallor, Founding Executive Director Nadia Hofmann Steven Klappholz, Executive Director of Development, Los Angeles Adrienne & Ira Holtzman Dawn & Ara Hourdajian Jayne Perilstein, Executive Director of Development, Philadelphia Annette Insdorf Sal Rivas, Executive Director, Corporate Relations Jackson Jewish Welfare Fund Melissa Saragosti, Advancement Coordinator Ned J. Kaplin Aaron Zarrow, Program Administrator Wendy & Theodore Kapnek WRITERS Pamela Johnson • Susan Wampler DESIGN Warren Group | Studio Deluxe

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BOARD OF COUNCILORS Steven Spielberg Founder/Honorary Chair Edgar M. Bronfman Honorary Co-Chair in Memoriam NEXT GENERATION Renée Crown COUNCIL Honorary Co-Chair Susan Crown Lew Wasserman National Chair Honorary Co-Chair in Memoriam Dan Adler Vice Chair Robert J. Katz Chair Marcy B. Gringlas Vice Chair Susan Crown Vice Chair Andy Intrater Vice Chair Harry L. Robinson Vice Chair Edward Sassower Vice Chair Wallis Annenberg Russel S. Bernard Wendy Sassower Gerald Breslauer* Vice Chair Joel Citron David Adelman Jerome Coben* Carole Blum Stephen A. Cozen Cecilia Chan David Eisman Ulrika Citron Phyllis Epstein Melanie Dadourian Anita Friedman Marsha Dworkin Emanuel Gerard* Lori Fife Eric Greenberg Rachel Cohen Gerrol Marcy B. Gringlas Mark Gordon Yossie Hollander Freddie Kotek William Lauder Harry Krakowski Lee Liberman Thom Melcher Bruce Ramer Joshua Nash Michael Rutman* Sam Pond Mickey Shapiro Allie Pyke Tad Taube Louis Smith Erna Viterbi Lindy Snider Leesa Wagner *Emeritus member Michael Wunderman Annual IMPACT Report 2014

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