“ We do not want our past to be our children’s future. ”

ROMAN KENT

At the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

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June 2016

Dear Friends,

The highlights of achievement in the following report are due to the support of you, our generous community of donors. Thank you for helping USC Shoah Foundation continue to break new ground in the field of testimony-based research and education and create positive change.

Among many key accomplishments, the Institute recorded dozens of new testimonies in Guatemala and Nanjing. Several Holocaust survivors gave interviews for New Dimensions in Testimony, our interactive 360-degree testimony interface. Postdoctoral fellows, senior scholars, and other researchers propelled our understanding of genocide prevention through collaborations at the Center for Advanced Genocide Research. We launched the Visual History Archive Program to dramatically scale up the reach and influence of our testimony access platforms. And more than 57,000 educators now engage in testimony-based teaching.

These and other important milestones position the Institute to make great strides in the coming year to intervene in the cycle that leads to genocide. Your enduring support will continue to help give the witnesses a lasting voice in the world.

Thank you again.

Sincerely,

STEPHEN D. SMITH STEPHEN A. COZEN Andrew J. and Erna Finci Viterbi Chair, USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Chair, USC Shoah Foundation Board of Councilors UNESCO Chair on Genocide Education Adjunct Professor of Religion USC SHOAH FOUNDATION

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of this terrible time. The Institute also partnered with Discovery Education to bring 25 secondary school THE PAST teachers from 11 countries to Poland for a four-day professional development workshop on the nation’s IS PRESENT history before, during, and after the Holocaust. The USC Shoah Foundation and the World Jewish Congress course also built firsthand knowledge of Auschwitz- collaborated on Auschwitz: The Past Is Present, a global Birkenau and other authentic sites. communication and education program commemorating Program participants spanned generations, with 12 the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation. A total students aged 13-15 completing the Institute’s pilot of 100 Auschwitz survivors traveled with family and Junior Intern program. They explored the sites, met with friends from 19 countries to attend the official ceremony survivors, and worked with educators on testimony- at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Along with based learning. A group of junior interns helped lead Len Blavatnik, Stephen D. government representatives, participating educators, Discovery Education’s Virtual Field Trip to Auschwitz- Smith, and Jonathan Lourie at students, and others, they gathered in a large tent Birkenau State Museum. Auschwitz I Appelplatz (Roll Call Square) erected at the infamous Death Gate. The program also produced two documentaries, This moving event was only part of the Past Is Present launched a social media campaign, and earned extensive activities dedicated to carrying forward the memory media coverage spanning more than 1,000 stories.

“The work of USC Shoah Foundation is extremely important in keeping the memory and lessons of the Holocaust alive.” 1 LEN BLAVATNIK Chairman, Access Industries

h 1 Holocaust survivors gathered with Steven Spielberg, founder of USC Shoah Foundation, and David Zaslav, chairman and president of Discovery Communications and chair of Auschwitz: The Past Is Present committee. 2 Kitty Hart-Moxon on the set of the documentary One Day in Auschwitz 3 Educator session focused on bringing testimony-based 2 3 learning to classrooms.

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COMMITMENT The Institute’s preservation of the ROOM FOR HOPE AND CAPACITY past is crucial, Richard notes. AUSCHWITZ: THE PAST “Historians say that Kathy and Richard Leventhal IS PRESENT institutions have no capacity COMMITTEE are longtime supporters of USC to learn because only people Committee Shoah Foundation because of its have memories. USC Shoah Chair unparalleled capacity to build bridges Foundation is proving David Zaslav of empathy between diverse cultures President and this premise to be false by CEO of Discovery through the novel use of technology. preserving the memories Communications “As a research university that in testimony and thereby Leadership constantly pushes the boundaries for institutionalizing the Circle innovation and imagination, USC memory so that history will— Steven Spielberg can galvanize the Institute’s projects Founder of USC hopefully—not repeat itself.” Shoah Foundation to enlighten students and educators— Len Blavatnik and, hopefully, help to inculcate a When they traveled to Poland Founder and standard for tolerance that will have as part of the Institute’s delegation Gabriel Hackel Chairman of Access Industries real staying power,” says Kathy, who marking the 70th anniversary of A 200-year-old cemetery sits quietly Joel Citron in the gray cold. Its thousands of serves on the USC Board of Trustees. the liberation of Auschwitz, the Managing Director The couple is particularly excited Leventhals were able to see history gravestones, inscribed with curling and Co-CEO of Tenth Avenue about the New Dimensions in firsthand. “No matter how much I Hebrew letters, lay broken and bent, Holdings Testimony project, which allows had previously read of the Holocaust untouched for nearly a century. Stephen A. Cozen testimonies to be shared through and, in particular, about Auschwitz, For Gabe Hackel, USC Shoah Founder and Foundation junior intern, this is the Chairman of Cozen interactive three-dimensional it all paled in the face of seeing O’Connor holograms that facilitate engagement the magnitude of the atrocity,” memory that sticks out most from his Ronald S. Lauder with survivors. “Having seen a Richard says. time in Poland. He journeyed there President of World demonstration and having learned “USC Shoah Foundation resonates as part of USC Shoah Foundation’s Jewish Congress how new technology enables real-time for the educational impact that it delegation to the commemoration of Yuri Milner Founder of DST interaction with a Holocaust survivor can have in understanding yesterday, the 70th anniversary of the liberation Global is extremely powerful,” Kathy says. today, and tomorrow—culturally, of Auschwitz. Hackel remembers Haim Saban “The authenticity of that exchange religiously, psychologically, and staring at the gravestones and Chairman and CEO of Saban leaves an indelible impression.” politically,” Kathy adds. realizing that they had collapsed Capital Group because all the people who would Howard Schultz have tended to them were killed in Chairman, the Holocaust. President, and CEO of Starbucks Coffee The magnitude of the catastrophe Company was reinforced throughout the trip, Committee as Hackel learned from survivors Members who saw it firsthand. Even so, he was Barry Diller left with a strong sense of possibility Ari Emanuel as he considered the potential for David Geffen Andrew Intrater the testimonies of survivors and Jeffrey witnesses to enlighten and inspire Katzenberg resistance to racially and religiously Ron Meyer motivated injustice and hatred. Leslie Moonves “Where there is fear, there is Eric Schmidt always room for hope,” Hackel Diane Von Furstenberg says of his experience. Harvey Weinstein Rob Wiesenthal h Jeff Zucker Kathy and Richard Leventhal

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EXPANDING essential to get this into of the Institute’s international STIRRING places where [the Holocaust] teacher training initiatives THE SCOPE occurred,” Schaeffer says. in Hungary. Among other ECHOES AND Longtime USC Shoah “History constantly repeats accomplishments, the POWERFUL Foundation supporters itself, and it’s necessary to couple’s generosity enabled REFLECTIONS George and Irina Schaeffer remind people with real film, the Institute’s Visual History recently contributed with real survivors—with Archive to become accessible As the 21st century began, significant new gifts that will people who went through this at Eötvös Loránd University and time threatened to help USC Shoah Foundation horrible tragedy.” in Budapest, the largest still the voices of many expand its offices and its To help ensure a sustained university in Hungary. witnesses, Joseph “Yossie” visibility, as well as its and far-reaching presence The Schaeffers’ dedication Hollander became European reach. of testimony in research and to the prevention of The couple made a education, the couple also genocide is deeply personal, concerned about the $5 million gift to facilitate recently established the particularly for George. His state of education on the the Institute’s move from its George and Irina Schaeffer parents met after the Soviets Holocaust. “It was almost Joseph “Yossie” Hollander current location on the first Center for the Study of liberated Ravensbrück, the frozen,” says Hollander, Over the next decade, floor of USC’s Leavey Library Genocide, Human Rights, Nazis’ largest concentration an Israeli technology Hollander hopes to see the to a fully renovated fourth and Conflict Prevention camp for women. His father entrepreneur whose program reach 80 percent floor. When realized, these at American University in was sent there as a laborer. efforts not only will double Paris (AUP). Thanks to the The couple married in 1945, parents survived the of U.S. high schools. “We the Institute’s space but Schaeffers’ foresight, AUP the same year they were freed. Holocaust. want to be the standard also update the technology now has full access to USC By 1956, however, their “At some point, we will for teaching about the needed to keep pace as a Shoah Foundation’s Visual liberators had become the not have the capability Holocaust,” he says. high-functioning operations History Archive. oppressors. The family, now to teach with actual If educator feedback center fostering the “The Schaeffers’ support is including young George, was Holocaust survivors.” is any indication, the Institute’s global activities. In transformative for USC Shoah forced to flee the violence recognition of their generosity, Foundation, and the new of the Hungarian Revolution, Searching for a solution, program is already the space will be named the center in Paris promises to immigrating to the United he entered discussions that achieving the latter George and Irina Schaeffer be a key ally and partner for States on the first plane led to a partnership among goal. “Teachers [say] Hall for Genocide Study at the testimony-based education from Hungary that President USC Shoah Foundation, unequivocally that this USC Shoah Foundation—The and research in Western Eisenhower allowed to land. Yad Vashem, and the is one of the best things Institute for Visual History and Europe,” says Stephen D. Despite the life he has Anti-Defamation League. they’ve taught or learned Education. Smith, USC Shoah Foundation created here, and his An additional gift of executive director. successes in building such The result was Echoes from.” $500,000 will support the George Schaeffer says he leading beauty companies and Reflections, which Through such initiatives, Institute’s education efforts is proud to be a major force as OPI and Aloxxi, the hatred provides training and Hollander sees USC throughout Hungary. “It is in helping expand the reach his family faced is never far multimedia educational Shoah Foundation and its from his thoughts. He remains resources for secondary partners as filling a critical committed to ensuring that school teachers and need. “One of the main the experiences of survivors like his parents—as well students. Hollander and [sentiments] you hear is as the millions who did not his wife, Dana, have ‘never again’—never again escape—are never forgotten, supported the program specifically for the Jewish and are used effectively by from its inception. people, but also never researchers and educators In 2015, Echoes and again around the world,” so that genocides are not Reflections celebrated he says. Hollander believes repeated. its 10th anniversary and we all have an obligation “The world needs to trained 9,000 teachers. to make sure such horrors remember in order to In 2014, the program do not repeat. make sure it doesn’t launched a website “They gave their happen again,” Schaeffer says. featuring free, classroom- testimony for a reason,” ready content and primary he says of the survivors. sources to ensure even “It’s important to use their easier access to these experiences to educate the h Irina and George Schaeffer vital materials. next generation.”

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

Detroit students at Henry Ford Museum with Lesly Culp, USC Shoah Foundation senior content specialist/trainer

, IWITNESS IN DETROIT educational resources, Ford also supports EDUCATORS USE IWITNESS the annual IWitness Video Challenge. For more than a century, Ford Motor Now in its second year, the challenge is a Company has benefited countless competition for middle and high school students in the Detroit area through students. Participating students create financial assistance, community service videos detailing their contributions to the programs, and partnerships with local community and how those efforts were schools and institutions. In partnership inspired by IWitness testimony. In 2015,  , with USC Shoah Foundation, Ford more than 1,300 students from across STUDENTS USE IWITNESS continues building on this history of the country took part. philanthropy and service with its The increased investment in IWitness leadership of the IWitness Detroit aligns with the core mission of the Ford program. Motor Company Fund, which invests IWitness brings the testimonies more than $8 million a year in global of genocide survivors, witnesses, and educational programs and initiatives.  liberators into K-12 classrooms. Already, “The work of USC Shoah Foundation more than 250 Detroit-area teachers is incredibly inspiring, as it is making COUNTRIES WHERE IWITNESS IS USED have attended educator trainings, and a huge difference in so many people’s more than 110 teachers are using the lives,” Ford Motor Company Executive program in their classrooms. In total, Chairman William Clay Ford, Jr. says. IWitness Detroit has reached more “We are excited to partner with than 3,000 students to date. This tally USC Shoah Foundation to engage will grow as Ford’s support enables the young minds, bring history to life, program to extend its services more  and encourage today’s youth to widely throughout the metropolitan area. STATES WHERE IWITNESS IS USED build a better future.” In addition to helping fund the Institute’s development of new

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SINGING INTO live performances by THE LENS OF PROMOTING He co-chaired the 2015 THE LION’S the USC Thornton HISTORY SCHOLARSHIP gala in Michigan, and MOUTH Chamber Singers. hosted special guests at his Pieces were featured by Mickey Shapiro was born home the evening before. Scholars and students artists both famous— in a displaced persons Through his personal from around the world including Beethoven, camp to parents who just outreach efforts, the gathered at USC to Shostakovich, George barely escaped the Nazi event attracted many new take part in Singing Harrison, and the band genocide. His father was and prominent donors. Into the Lion’s Mouth: System of a Down—and sentenced to a Siberian In addition, the gala Music as Resistance to largely unknown— prison before the war and highlighted expansion of Genocide, hosted by the including concentration was later conscripted into the Institute’s IWitness the Soviet army. At age educational platform Center for Advanced camp inmates, residents Julia Werner Julia Werner, a PhD candidate in throughout Detroit. Genocide Research. of Eastern European Over the course of history at Humboldt University of Shapiro’s generosity ghettos, and anti-Apart- Berlin, studies the photography three days, conference also honors the memory heid activists in South of Nazi-occupied Poland, attendees explored the of his many family Africa. examining images that often place of music as a form members who perished Attendees experienced portray astonishing brutality. of resistance to genocide Recently named the second in the Polish (now an overview of the and other forms of state Margee and Douglas Greenberg Ukrainian) town of Korets role that music plays and communal violence. Research Fellow, she traveled during World War II. in preserving identity, to USC Shoah Foundation in Los The conference expressing loss, rallying Angeles to incorporate interviews “My historical focused on 300 years of defiance, and providing from the Visual History Archive knowledge, coupled music from Armenia, into her dissertation research. pleasure and humor— Mickey Shapiro with my deep Chile, China, Europe, Werner, who also delivered emotions, fuel my even in the darkest, the lecture “Beyond the Pictorial 11, his mother survived Indonesia, Bangladesh, need to help ensure most trying, and Frame: The Ghettoization of by becoming a maid after South Africa, and these events do not brutal circumstances Jews in Poland” during her convincing a farmer she other places. Its events fellowship, sees the interviews happen again.” imaginable. was Catholic. included screenings in the archive as powerful tools To honor his parents— While traveling to and lectures as well as to provide context to the images she studies. now aged 93 and 85— Poland for the 70th “Having worked with Shapiro endowed the Sara anniversary of the photography as my main source and Asa Shapiro Annual liberation of Auschwitz, for quite some time now, I was Holocaust Testimony Shapiro encountered a struck by the emotional impact Scholar and Lecture personal example of why that listening to the interviews had on me, a person telling his Fund. The program it the Institute’s educational or her story, seeing the facial supports enables scholars outreach is so vital. He expressions, the gestures, but to spend up to a month in met a pilot who had been also hearing the voice when it residence at USC Shoah concerned about the level changes, when the interviewees Foundation’s Center of Holocaust denial to stumble over words and for Advanced Genocide which his daughter was sentences, when they switch languages, when they turn silent,” Research. Each fellowship exposed until someone Werner says. “The Greenberg culminates in a public from the Institute came Research Fellowship is a lecture. to her school. “Now Center for Advanced Genocide Research staff along with conference great opportunity to deepen A longtime Board she teaches [about] the chairs and panelists pose for a photo. Back row, left to right: Scott this methodological approach Spencer, Nick Strimple, Daniel Newman-Lessler, Tina Fruhauf, of Councilors member, Holocaust,” the pilot told and to further elaborate on Alexandra Birch, Matt Lawson, Sandya Maulana; front row, Shapiro is passionate him. For Shapiro, this was left to right: Wolf Gruner, Barbara Milewski, Janie Cole, Shefali the question of combining Deshpande, Kia Hays, Carla Garapedian these two complex resources about extending the a personal affirmation of as well as to add oral history Institute’s base of support. the Institute’s work. interviews to my toolbox.“

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future genocides,” she said. PRESERVING The event featured a lecture on A LEGACY “Memory and Genocide” by New Yorker columnist Philip Gourevitch. In August 2015, USC Shoah A Cornell alumnus, Gourevitch has Foundation staff completed indexing the testimonies that written extensively on the genocide comprise the Jewish Family against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and Children’s Services (JFCS) including his acclaimed We Wish to collection. By doing so, they added more than 1,400 Inform You That Tomorrow We Will testimonies from Holocaust Be Killed With Our Families: Stories survivors, witnesses, and From Rwanda (1998). His talk liberators to the more than focused on the country’s ongoing 53,000 testimonies already in the Visual History Archive. efforts at reconciliation over the Scholars and students will be past 20 years. able to access the testimonies Jonathan Boyarin, director of at any one of 53 Visual History Cornell’s Jewish Studies program, Archive sites around the world. The testimonies will Professor Wolf Gruner conducting lecture at Cornell was among the attendees. “The be searchable by region and archive access is a significant new time period as well as by “It was an honor to help resource for Cornell and offers a topics discussed and emotions NEW ACCESS expressed by the interviewee. facilitate this partnership way to stimulate discussions across POINTS: THE VISUAL The Institute already is planning HISTORY ARCHIVE between two institutions that many disciplines centered on the to take full advantage of these are so important to me,” Katz complex relations among memory, testimonies by integrating them AT CORNELL says. “The presence of the identity, technology, and politics,” into the award-winning IWitness educational platform. In November 2015, Cornell Archive on campus and growing Boyarin said. “We are looking For JFCS staffers, this means University joined the growing facility with its power and forward to the conferences and that their invaluable collection of number of academic institutions potential other exchanges this resource will testimonies will not only survive, that partner with USC Shoah will spur new levels of scholarly doubtless provoke.” but it also will be accessed by a greater number of viewers than Foundation to provide access to and educational activities at Two visiting scholars from ever before. the Institute’s Visual History Cornell in Holocaust and Poland and one from Japan also “We spent decades Archive. Students, faculty, and genocide studies as well as attended the kickoff event. compiling this collection and are thrilled that, staff can now access the archive digital learning more broadly.” To cement the relationship by partnering with USC remotely and through Cornell The late Elizabeth Garrett, between USC Shoah Foundation Shoah Foundation, we University Library computers, Cornell president and former USC and Cornell, Wolf Gruner— will be preserving these thanks to the generosity of an provost, also played a pivotal role in director of the Institute’s remarkable testimonies in perpetuity while also anonymous donor. Visiting fostering the connection and spoke Center for Advanced Genocide ensuring their worldwide researchers, community members, at a ceremony in November that Research—later visited Cornell, access to researchers, and others can also view the more celebrated the launch of access where he gave an academic educators, students, and than 53,000 video testimonies to the archive. It is now part of presentation on “Defiance and the general public,” says Anita Friedman, executive at the library’s public computer her legacy at both universities. Protest: Forgotten Individual director of JFCS of San stations. “Making these unique testimonies Jewish Reactions to the Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin Robert J. Katz—a longtime and other material accessible through Persecution in Nazi Germany.” and Sonoma Counties. member and former chair of Cornell enhances the university’s He also conducted a training USC Shoah Foundation Board ability to support comparative workshop for library staff, of Councilors who also serves as a international and historical faculty, and researchers and built Cornell trustee—was instrumental scholarship of the highest level, as relationships that will help ensure in bringing the two institutions well as to advance education that that Cornell becomes a productive together to make the full Visual encourages humane and ethical locus for testimony-based research, History Archive available at Cornell. behavior and may allow us to avoid campus engagement, and teaching. Anita Friedman

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BREAKING THE OVERCOMING is an exaggerated number—or A SPOTLIGHT ON even deny that the massacre SILENCE: A FOCUS DENIAL OF THE PAST happened at all. NANJING ON GUATEMALA With only some 200 remaining “Germany and Japan were the In 87 years of life, Zhi Qiang Chang survivors of the Japanese major war criminals in World has seen much history-shaping military’s 1937 campaign of War II, but the Germans openly turmoil in his native China, from mass killing in Nanjing, China, acknowledge these horrible World War II and the Chinese Civil firsthand memories might be lost events,” says Ming Hsieh, a major War to Mao Zedong’s Cultural to history if not for USC Shoah supporter of the project. “Not Revolution and the reforms of Deng Foundation and its donors. enough people from Japan truly Xiaoping, as well as the economic “The Nanjing Testimony recognize this genocide.” As a and social transformations of the Delegation from the Guatemalan nonprofit Project enables the world, result, the Nanjing Massacre is past 25 years. More than any of La Fundación de Antropología Forense de through our web-based far less known than it should be these experiences, though, his life Guatemala (FAFG) visits the Institute. From left: Stephen D. Smith, Katia Orantes, Scott educational content, to learn around the world. “I hope future has been marked by an event 78 Greathead, Jessika Osorio, Fredy Peccerelli, about this heinous crime Japanese scholars will tell the years ago, when Japanese forces Sandra Gruner-Domic and Wolf Gruner against humanity,” says Cecilia truth to the Japanese people invaded the city of Nanjing and Between 1960 and 1996, Guatemala was “Ceci” Chan, who initiated the and to the rest of the world, and torn apart by genocide. In a civil war strategy to fund and support help make sure massacres do pitting the Central American nation’s the collection. “The goal is to not happen again,” Hsieh says. tyrannical government against various reach as many people as possible Sophia Wong, director of the opposition groups, government forces worldwide.” She is passionate Nanjing Summer Palace Club and slaughtered an estimated 200,000 about fighting anti-Semitism and project supporter, agrees. “For far people, most of whom were anti- too long, the Nanjing Massacre government activists, indigenous Mayan any form of irrational hatred. people, and the rural poor. A local team in Nanjing filmed has remained an afterthought, In the 20 years since the killing ended, the interviews, which were and we are extremely grateful Guatemala has made strides toward conducted by a researcher at the for USC Shoah Foundation’s From left: Ron Meyer, Xu Xin, Ming Nanjing Massacre Memorial efforts to shine light on this Hsieh, survivor Zhi Qiang Chang and breaking the silence and recognizing and Stephen D. Smith following a Nanjing learning from the experience of victims, Hall. The hall will receive a dark chapter in history,” she panel discussion survivors, and witnesses to the genocide. copy of the completed collection, says. “The wounds continue to In partnership with the Guatemalan which also will be available heal, but the scars must serve as a proceeded to massacre several nonprofit La Fundación de Antropología through the Institute’s Visual constant reminder of man’s ability hundred thousand Chinese Forense de Guatemala (FAFG), USC History Archive. to hate and destroy.” civilians—including his mother, Shoah Foundation is working to record, The testimonies seek to Chan sees the project—along father, and four siblings. preserve, and share the stories of establish full-life histories of with all of the Institute’s work— On October 30, 2015, Chang survivors and witnesses. the survivors, including their as essential. “If people do not act shared his story with attendees Over the past year, 10 testimonies social and cultural life before vigilantly against the insidious at the USC Global Conference have been gathered from survivors and and after the massacre. Most rising tides of ignorance, hatred, in Shanghai. Also present was a witnesses. The Institute and FAFG now delegation of USC Shoah Foundation are working to raise resources to gather Japanese military records on the and violence, humanity will be 150 more testimonies from survivors and killings have been kept secret or severely diminished,” she says. staff. Together, they discussed the witnesses whose lives were upended by destroyed. Even today, a vocal “We are all morally responsible power of testimonies from survivors village massacres and “disappearances” minority in Japan insists that the to work toward a more peaceful and witnesses to the Nanjing carried out under the pretext of fighting approximately 300,000 who died global environment.” Massacre—testimonies that the communism. Interviews will be held Institute is working to collect and in Guatemala as well as among the use for educational purposes in the Guatemalan community in the United United States, China, and around States. The Institute and FAFG also the world. will partner to host an academic “These stories hold deep conference on Genocide and Resistance personal meaning for the survivors in Guatemala, scheduled to take place at and their families, and as they hear USC in September 2016. stories from other survivors— “This pilot project is a reminder to the whether they’re from the Holocaust Americas that genocide also happens or Nanjing or another event—that in the Western Hemisphere,” says story resonates on a very personal Stephen D. Smith, USC Shoah Foundation executive director. “By capturing these level,” says Stephen D. Smith, stories, we are shining light into dark executive director of USC Shoah corners, and helping to prevent this From left: Roger Wang, Cecilia Chan, Eva and Ming Hsieh, and Sophie and Johnny Zhang at Foundation, who participated in history from fading into oblivion.” the USC Global Conference the event.

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NORTH AFRICA “It’s important for the AND MIDDLE testimonies of Jews from North EASTERN Africa and the Middle East to be preserved because their EYEWITNESSES experiences were not USC Shoah Foundation’s documented adequately,” says Testimonies from North Africa Ruth Pearl, mother of the late and the Middle East project journalist Daniel Pearl. “It is collects accounts from Jews urgent to do so now while we still who survived the oppression have eyewitness testimonials.” From left: Richard Hovannisian, Karen Jungblut, Bonnie Zev, Michael Amerian, Ari Zev, and violence wrought in those Gmach interviewed Pearl about Heather Maio, Stephen D. Smith, and Wolf Gruner at the Armenian Genocide Memorial regions by Nazi occupiers and being a youth in Iraq during the PRESERVING subtitle the entire collection. The governments aligned with Farhud, or pogrom, carried out THE PAST genocide claimed nearly 1.5 million Germany during World War II. against that nation’s Jews at the Armenian lives from 1915 to the These experiences are crucial to Nazis’ behest. USC Shoah Foundation received early 1920s. understanding the global reach “[The program] is part of donor funding for a dedicated “We are grateful to the of Nazi ideology. Even after the keeping the memory alive, with educator who will accelerate the Armenian Film Foundation and war, many were forced to flee testimonies from Ashkenazim development of teaching activities, Founder, J. Michael Hagopian, their home countries because of and Sephardim,” says Lucy outreach, and community who collected these very important continued persecution. Goldman, a survivor who partnerships focusing on the testimonies,” notes Ari Zev, Born in Tunisia before the was born in Poland and helps Institute’s Armenian Genocide director of administration. war ended, Jacqueline Semha support the project. “The testimony collection. The gift “We’re also grateful for the Gmach brings personal project is introducing the life already has fostered collaboration support from the Armenian experience as well as cultural stories of Jews who lived in with the Armenian Genocide community,” adds Jayne Perilstein, expertise to her direction of Arab countries during World Museum & Institute, with plans managing director of advancement. the project. Over the past War II and found refuge in to integrate its extensive digital “With their help we were able 25 years, she has established different parts of the world— collection of maps, images, and to acquire the testimonies and Holocaust educational programs, hundreds of thousands of them.” documents into USC Shoah have already begun to utilize Jewish music festivals, and the Foundation’s IWitness. them to extend awareness of renowned San Diego Jewish “Their memories need to “There’s a huge amount of Armenian culture, combat Book Fair. So far, Gmach has be kept alive by teaching interest in and demand for this Armenian genocide denial, collected interviews from a new generations so that material,” says Kori Street, director and increase understanding number of respected scholars the story will continue of education. “We’re grateful for through education.” and authors currently living in to be told.” this generous donation that is Leading up to the centennial Paris. The goal is to record 50 LUCY GOLDMAN allowing us to move forward more of the Armenian Genocide, the testimonies, but the project quickly in making the collection Institute debuted a month-long may expand. more widely available.” series of clips from survivor Nearly 400 testimonies are in the and eyewitness testimonies. A Armenian Genocide collection, 90 delegation from USC Shoah of which are currently available for Foundation, including leading viewing. Most interviews were Armenian Genocide scholar conducted in English and Richard Hovannisian and Armenian, with Turkish, Kurdish, Executive Director Stephen D. Arabic, and Greek and other Smith traveled to Armenia to Western European languages participate in official ceremonies. represented as well. In addition Smith also spoke at a special to indexing, the Institute’s team observance in New York’s will transcribe, translate, and Times Square. Jacqueline Semha Gmach Ruth Pearl

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PERSONAL which not only captures LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION: LEARNING testimonies but also NEW DIMENSIONS IN TESTIMONY uses them in innovative, “We renewed our Melinda Goldrich had exciting educational long known about USC programs to benefit current commitment Shoah Foundation’s and future generations. to the Institute dedication to collecting “From my experiences eyewitness experiences— in traveling, you find out because it her father, Jona, gave there are people without continues to testimony. But it was knowledge or understanding not until 2015 that she of [the Holocaust], whether lead in the learned the full range of they’re educated people or groundbreaking the Institute’s educational not,” Goldrich says. outreach. Traveling to “Part of the challenge use of Poland as part of the is that, for many decades, technology PINCHAS GUTTER ’PILOT INTERVIEW– MARCH „‹ƒAPRIL €, „†€Š Auschwitz: The Past Is the Holocaust was Present program inspired often taught about in to ensure the Aspen, Colorado, uninspiring ways, she testimony-based resident to visit the adds. Educators mostly Institute to find out more showed black-and-white education has a about such programs photographs and newsreel lasting impact as IWitness and footage while empha- New Dimensions in sizing the number of for future Testimony (NDT). people killed.” generations.” Heartened by what Programs like New she saw, Goldrich hosted Dimensions in Testimony TREVOR PEARS an event in Aspen with and IWitness enable Executive Chair, Pears Foundation USC Shoah Foundation students to get a much more titled, The Digital Future personal understanding. ANITA LASKER‡WALLFISCH SEPTEMBER „€ƒ„‡, „†€‡ of Holocaust Memory and “It’s presented as being Education to spread the about people, not word to potential numbers,” Goldrich says. NDT FACTS supporters. Executive “Not everybody’s going Director Stephen D. Smith to have a Holocaust spoke, and attendees survivor in their family included survivors and or in their community  USC Shoah Foundation to relate it to, so you TESTIMONIES RECORDED Board of Councilors need organizations like members, as well as area USC Shoah Foundation residents who started off to provide that for interested and quickly others, especially as the % became riveted. generation of survivors INCREASE IN STUDENTS SAM HARRIS OCTOBER ‡ƒ‚, „†€‡ Goldrich says she is available to share KNOWLEDGE ABOUT committed to supporting firsthand information is WORLDWIDE ISSUES FRITZIE FRITZSHALL OCTOBER €‚ƒ„ , „†€‡ the Institute’s work, rapidly diminishing.” AARON ELSTER NOVEMBER „ƒ‰, „†€‡

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LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION: CONNECTING pass them on to the next NEW DIMENSIONS IN TESTIMONY PEOPLE generation so those lives will not have perished Concerned about the in vain,” says Leesa, a global rise of intolerance, member of the Next Leesa and Leon Wagner Generation Council. have added the anti- Semitism fund to their “Their memory must portfolio of support for serve as a constant USC Shoah Foundation. reminder that this Their family histories are must not happen filled with reasons why ever again.” combating hatred is so important to them. On a personal level, she The testimonies of adds that it’s special to Leon’s late parents, Sima her that her children and Allan Shapiro, second generation survivor and witness to the events in Copenhagen and Rubin, in the Visual future generations will be History Archive attest able to watch stories of COUNTERING The interdisciplinary, research initiatives with to the power of love and their own relatives. ANTI‡SEMITISM research-based program the Institute’s Center never giving up. Married will approach anti- for Advanced Genocide before the war, the couple USC Shoah Foundation Semitism as one form Research, and targeted was torn apart when the continues to raise of hatred among many outreach programs for Nazis sent them to sepa- funds for a vital new confronting our world scholars, educators, rate camps. Miraculously, program, Countering today and will use decision-makers, Rubin somehow kept Anti-Semitism Through multiple approaches to organizations, and his ring and, after the Testimony, which will combat it. At the center communities. Each war, convinced an officer document, analyze, of the program are new group will learn of the to take it to the nearby personalize, and humanize collections, including ongoing human impact women’s camp, in the the experience of historical recently recorded inter- of anti-Semitism and hope that Sima was alive and current anti-Semitism. views with witnesses gain insight into their and would recognize it. “We need to change the to the February 2015 own power to counter The couple soon reunited. Leesa and Leon Wagner public voice countering attacks in Denmark at anti-Semitism and other Leesa’s grandfather, The New York City- anti-Semitism,” USC Copenhagen’s Great forms of hatred by taking who immigrated to the based Wagners also Shoah Foundation Synagogue. These and action to build a more U.S. before the war, enjoy connecting the Executive Director other recent eyewitness civil society. returned to his hometown Institute to new supporters Stephen D. Smith says. accounts will be employed “Anti-Semitism in Poland, married her through events, such as “Jewish people have along with the 50,000+ demonizes. Testimony grandmother, and took co-chairing the 20th every right to defend Holocaust testimonies humanizes,” Stephen her back to his adopted anniversary Ambassadors themselves, but the in the Institute’s Visual D. Smith summarized, country. However, Leesa’s for Humanity Gala. widespread silence History Archive. Each noting the Countering great-grandparents, all of others all too often interview gives a personal Anti-Semitism Through nine of her grandmothers’ “I try to put big makes anti-Semitism an perspective of anti- Testimony program is brothers and sisters, and numbers of people exclusively Jewish issue. Semitism, from its often- a top priority. To date, many of their children together and get In fact, anti-Semitism is subtle beginnings to its the Institute is halfway were killed. great speakers to a threat to the values of most violent dimensions. towards the one million “It’s important to motivate and move our civilization. When These stories will dollars needed to launch preserve the memory, them to action.” Jews are targeted, we propel new educational the first year of the images, stories, and names LEESA WAGNER are all targeted.” workshops and resources, three-year initiative. of those who perished and

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2015 AMBASSADORS FOR HUMANITY GALA Steven Spielberg presented USC Shoah Foundation’s 2015 Ambassador for Humanity Award to William Clay Ford Jr., executive chairman of Ford Motor Company, at the Institute’s annual gala. Mickey Shapiro, a longstanding member of the Institute’s Board of 1 2 Councilors, co-chaired the event. He was joined by Golden Globe- winning, Emmy-and Academy Award-nominated actor Steve Carell, who served as host; Emmy- and Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry, who joined as special guest; and Grammy Award winner James Taylor, who provided a special musical performance. Held in Detroit on September 10, 2015, the event highlighted the Institute’s global efforts and a partnership with Ford to expand IWitness in the metro Detroit region. A portion of the 3 4 funds raised will support IWitness Detroit, which provides teacher education and academic resources to enable students to engage with eyewitness testimony. The Institute joined forces with Ford on the national IWitness Video Challenge, which kicked off in January 2016. More than 700 people attended the gala, including leaders from the business, real estate, cultural, entertainment, media, finance, and technology communities from Michigan, Illinois, New York, Los Angeles, and around the nation. “The commitment of Bill 5 6 Ford and Ford Motor Company to support new approaches 1 Marcy Gringlas, Joel Greenberg, Reli Gringlas, Steven Spielberg, Joseph Gringlas, and Bill Ford 2 Steve Carell, to learning, to provide Mickey Shapiro, Bill Ford, and Steven Spielberg 3 Ronald Davis, Mickey Shapiro, and Barbara Rom 4 Dana and scholarships, and to help Yossie Hollander, Stephen A. Cozen, Andrew Intrater, Sandy Cozen, and Samantha Resnik 5 Joey and Ellie Cobb, Will deserving students attain Ford, Martha Ford, Steven Spielberg, Bill and Lisa Ford, and Nick Ford 6 Melanie Dadourian, Jerry Papazian, and higher education, makes him Sandra Shahinian Leitner 7 Evgeny Belov, Dr. Qanta Ahmed, Nathan Ngan, Cecilia Chan, and Harry Krakowski a great ambassador, and I am 8 Henry Ford Academy students with Kori Street, Bill Goodwyn, Steven Spielberg, Bill Ford, USC President C. L. Max proud to recognize him for his Nikias, and Stephen D. Smith 9 Tiffany Taylor, Margaret Cooney Casey, and Madeline and Sydney Forbes 0 Yvette efforts,” Spielberg said. and David Bing James Taylor and Owen Young Bill and Lisa Ford, Kim Smedvig Taylor and James Taylor, Halle Berry, Steven Spielberg, USC President C. L. Max Nikias, Mickey Shapiro, and Stephen D. Smith

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Mickey Shapiro hosted an exclusive evening at his home the night before the Ambassadors for Humanity Gala for committee members and those who supported the Gala with leadership gifts. Edward Shapiro, Mickey Shapiro, and Steven Shapiro Front row: Francis Eisenberg and Eugene Applebaum; back row: Kenneth Eisenberg, Marcia Applebaum, and Mickey Shapiro Back row: Stephanie Langer, David Shapiro, Steven Shapiro, Mickey Shapiro, Erica Kives, Spencer Shapiro, Edward Shapiro, and Michael Shapiro; front row: Margie Shapiro, Asa and Sara Shapiro, and Samantha Shapiro

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CHANGING for the better. She became ANNUAL GIVING accompanied USC Shoah LIVES the Peace Corps’ first female CAMPAIGN Foundation staff to Guatemala training officer and later to help prepare and train staff Juliane Heyman’s story of worked as an advisor for The Annual Giving Campaign of the Institute’s partner, La escaping the Holocaust is as educational and social projects builds a broad foundation of Fundación de Antropología harrowing as the rest of her throughout Africa, Asia, and sustaining support that touches Forense de Guatemala, on how to life has been inspirational. Latin America. Today, she all areas of the Institute’s work. collect and record testimonies At age 12, she and her shares her story with at-risk Annual Fund gifts form the of genocide survivors in the family were forced to flee youths to teach resilience. She foundation of the organization’s country, giving them a voice their home in what is now is a staunch supporter of USC philanthropic support to provide for the first time. Gdansk, Poland. In a scene Shoah Foundation’s mission flexible and critical funding for • IWitness Presentation in that could have inspired The and Annual Fund. areas of greatest need. New York Sound of Music, she once had Due to the generosity of New York-based regional to perform in a violin recital “The stories in the Annual Fund donors throughout consultant Liz Bommarito so as not to raise suspicion. archives have the last year, the Institute supported introduced her colleagues at potential to change important activities such as: Midwood High School in lives.” • International Conference Brooklyn to IWitness. She gave A three-day interdisciplinary a presentation on how to use Knowing she will not always conference on “Through testimony in the classroom to be around to tell her story Testimony” brought together her school’s English department, firsthand, Heyman is grateful 30 international scholars and which doesn’t typically teach for her testimony’s inclusion more than 500 participants to Holocaust literature. in the Visual History Archive, discuss the use of testimony which enables viewers to USC Shoah Foundation strives and new media in Holocaust “learn what can lead to to further strengthen its financial and genocide studies. injustice, bigotry, intolerance, position as Institute activities prejudice, and persecution,” • Guatemala Collection continue to grow and benefit she says. Anthropologist and sociologist students, educators, and researchers Juliane Heyman Sandra Gruner-Domic, PhD, across the world. During her family’s four-year “Future generations quest for safe haven, she and will have this unique USC SHOAH FOUNDATION ANNUAL FUND her brother eluded capture educational experience by German soldiers by of viewing stories not pretending not to understand only of horror and crime the language. They lived in against humanity, but Paris during the occupation, also of the hope and got by on forged papers, resistance of survivors. and crossed the Pyrenees to They will surely be Spain. Finally, they made it inspired to be active to the U.S. via freighter in and more tolerant, late 1941. develop empathy, In the decades since, and accept others in Heyman has focused on working for justice helping change others’ lives and peace for all.”

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NEXT GENERATION SHARED whom they target. bystander,’” he says. “For me, the COUNCIL RESPONSIBILITY Next Generation Council was “Oftentimes, victims the perfect opportunity to serve USC Shoah Foundation’s Next alone don’t have the and to make a difference.” NGC Generation Council (NGC) ability to overcome members represent a diverse serves as a key advisory group injustices. The rest of us group of close to 30 professionals and source of philanthropic from around the country. They need to step up. Each of support to advance the mission of are committed to amplifying the us has a responsibility the Institute and the goals of the voices of survivors and furthering to create the world we’d Annual Fund. the Institute’s mission. NGC members are role like our children and Through Melcher’s efforts, grandchildren to be models in their communities, Thomas Melcher PNC hosted an event for its leaders in business, and raised in.” clients in Washington, D.C., philanthropic social Next Generation Council to raise awareness about the entrepreneurs who help raise Co-Chair Thomas Melcher is a Melcher is the chief investment Institute and its mission. The awareness of the Institute and longstanding supporter of USC officer for the PNC Asset evening’s program featured Alex build new communities of Shoah Foundation. Melcher Management Group—one of Biniaz-Harris and Ambrose support through networking, serves as Co-Chair along with the country’s largest wealth- Soehn, two USC Thornton outreach, and active Ulrika Citron. His work to management firms. He first School of Music alumni who, engagement. foster tolerance was reaffirmed learned of the Institute through a for the 70th anniversary of by the terrorist attacks in Paris client being honored at the annual the liberation of Auschwitz, NGC members: on November 13, 2015, when Ambassadors for Humanity Gala. ▪ Provide and/or secure a 130 people were murdered, with That event—and the Institute’s minimum donation to the hundreds more wounded. “I fear mission—left quite an impression, Annual Fund of $15,000 per that the regularity of these events and he has now been involved year for the three-year term is slowly desensitizing us all,” with USC Shoah Foundation for ▪ Participate and provide input he says. nearly a decade, and donates to in NGC initiatives Still, Melcher sees hope for the Institute’s anti-Semitism fund. ▪ Serve as ambassadors to the future—but only if all of “I remember just being totally promote the Institute’s us make our voices heard in blown away—not only because of mission to current and future rejecting hatred and bigotry, being able to connect history to generations no matter what their source or the present, but [also] because of the tendency to think of atrocities Alex Biniaz-Harris and Ambrose Soehn that happened in the past as performing their composition being ancient history, when in fact they’re all too frequent in the composed and performed present,” he says. an original piano suite for What inspired Melcher Auschwitz: Past Is Present. The most “was knowing there was music—based on the testimonies an organization committed of Holocaust survivors, including to making the world a better Biniaz-Harris’ grandmother, place, and that there was really Celina Biniaz—was featured in a room for everybody to have a moving USC Shoah Foundation role in doing that. It just has to documentary. PNC’s guests had start with the mindset of ‘I’m the opportunity to watch the film, going do something,” instead hear a live performance of the of ‘I choose to be a passive composition, and participate in a question-and-answer session led h Ulrika Citron, NGC Co-Chair by Melcher.

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RAISING AWA R ENESS THROUGH TESTIMONY Expanding the awareness of USC Shoah Foundation among the student population became the goal of graduating senior and international relations major Nitya Ramanathan. Her relationship with the Institute began two years prior when she traveled to Rwanda as part of USC Dornsife’s Problems Without Passports program. Upon her return, she was so inspired by the Institute that she began an internship in the research and education departments. Through her experiences, she felt the best way to accomplish her goal was to become the president of Defy Intolerance Through Education USC Shoah Foundation interns in front of the Institute. Front row, left to right: Mushfiq Chowhury, Orli Robin, Jennifer Binley, and (DEFY), USC Shoah Foundation’s Nitya Ramanathan; back row, left to right: Ashley Lukashevsky, Ambrose Soehn, Shefali Deshpande, and Travis Macdonald student association. DEFY’s mission is to promote genocide education and EXPERIENTIAL Kay and Chowdhury note he adds. “This is not your connect students with the Institute LEARNING AND that USC Shoah Foundation’s typical internship experience. themes and mission. TESTIMONY intern program provides a vehicle There’s a validation and As a group, DEFY is motivated for likeminded and committed confidence instilled in you that to make linkages between issues According to USC Shoah students who are either in the allows you to put ideas into that students of various cultural Foundation interns Marina humanities and/or studying action.” backgrounds may experience in their day-to-day lives, such as oppression Kay and Mushfiq Chowdhury, human rights to engage with one Kay can get frustrated and marginalization. DEFY has working with the Institute another. Kay believes, “most with the typical narrative of three major goals: collaboration, allowed them “to engage students are directed toward international relations, which awareness, and identification with in an active process.” Kay, vocational and or professional she says can forget individuals, survivors and witnesses of the an international relations areas of study such as but she applauds the Institute Holocaust and other genocides. major, worked with the business to ‘succeed,’ but in for illuminating suffering and For Genocide Awareness Month, communications department and the humanitarian sector, you utilizing the experiences of Ramanathan made it a priority for DEFY to network with other student was responsible for assisting with don’t necessarily ‘succeed.’ survivors and witnesses of the organizations, including the Armenian national and international media You ‘make a difference.’” Holocaust and other genocides Student Association, Latino Student outreach. International relations Chowdhury’s future plans to change the world. She credits Assembly, Black Student Assembly, and Middle East studies major include volunteering as a the intern program with inspiring International Student Assembly, and Chowdhury worked on special counselor for a peace-building her to pursue humanitarian work Africa SC, to create awareness and projects with Executive Director organization that brings youth after graduation, and cherishes promote understanding. Stephen D. Smith that enabled from areas of conflict to its her time with survivors and With collaboration and exposure to the archive, she hopes that students Chowdhury to research how international camp. He feels witnesses of the Holocaust and and student groups will “understand the Muslim student population his experience with the intern other genocides. the importance of memorializing at USC and other college program provided him with “There’s something so the survivors and witnesses— campuses interact with issues invaluable knowledge to share special and so unspeakable at that taking the testimonies of the Holocaust while locating with youth he will encounter. the same time. They carry an humanizes the person and events. opportunities for educational “What you think and what you unimaginable resilience.” It’s no longer this abstract ‘thing’ engagement. do matters in this program,” that you heard happened.”

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CHANGING THE WORLD “My role as the The late Erna Finci Viterbi shared a passion with her husband, inaugural chair Andrew, for helping people learn is to rethink how from the Holocaust to combat intolerance and the violence we understand that stems from it. In November the hideous 2014, three months before Erna past of genocide passed away, the Viterbis honored another person with that drive through the digital when they awarded Stephen D. Erna and Andrew J. Viterbi with Stephen D. Smith at the Ambassadors for Humanity Gala in 2014. humanities. Smith the inaugural Andrew We fanatically J. and Erna Finci Viterbi USC science and engineering research. townspeople saved the family Shoah Foundation Executive Erna’s service included being on from being sent to the camps. preserve the Director Chair. USC Shoah Foundation’s Board of They then made it to Switzerland, interviews, and The chair supports Smith’s Councilors. Together, they named remaining there until moving to leadership of USC Shoah the USC Andrew and Erna California after the war. that is because Foundation and recognizes his Viterbi School of Engineering “We need only look to the we want to share lifetime of work in genocide with a $52 million gift in 2004. Viterbis to understand this one them with all the education and prevention. The Holocaust touched both simple truth: The past may always The ceremony at which it was their lives before they even be present, but the future is ours people of the world. bestowed in November 2015, met. They each escaped Nazi- to change,” USC President C. L. This willingness to also honored a lifetime of controlled Europe, but Erna Max Nikias said at the ceremony. confront the past philanthropic leadership on the was more personally affected. “Stephen Smith is a champion part of the Viterbis, who have As a youth, she and her family of this vision. He has seen how and the future devoted much of their lives to fled their native Sarajevo only eyewitness testimony can change together—no other causes related to education, the to be deported to the Parma the world, one voice at a time.” institute can do arts, Jewish organizations, and region of Italy. Fortunately, local that the way USC Shoah Foundation does—faces the challenge of catastrophic human behavior and its dire consequences as a pathway to avoid their recurrence.”

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USC President C. L. Max Nikias, Stephen D. Smith, and Andrew J. Viterbi at the installation ceremony

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BOARD OF COUNCILORS NEXT GENERATION EXECUTIVE Steven Spielberg COUNCIL STAFF Founder/Honorary Chair Co-Chairs Stephen D. Smith Ulrika Citron Executive Director Life Board Members Thomas Melcher Wolf Gruner Wallis Annenberg Director, Center for Gerald Breslauer Members Advanced Renée Crown Dan Adler Genocide Research Roman Kent Qanta Ahmed Sam Gustman Michael Rutman Carole Blum Chief Technology Officer Elizabeth Bohart Chair Karen Jungblut Adam Braun Director of Collections Stephen A. Cozen Cecilia Chan Anita Pace Executive Committee Melanie Dadourian Director of Technology Marsha Dworkin Joel Citron Kim Simon Jason Epstein Yossie Hollander Managing Director Andrew Intrater Lori Fife Rachel Gerrol Anne Marie Stein Robert J. Katz Director of Mark Gordon Lee Liberman Communications Mickey Shapiro Freddie Kotek Aliza Liberman Kori Street David Zaslav Director of Education Joshua Nash Members Sam Pond Ari Zev David Adelman Allie Pyke Director of Administration Pamela Applebaum David Rittberg Jerome Coben Peter Rosenberg Founding Executive Susan Crown Rachel Simon Directors David Eisman Louis Smith June Beallor Phyllis Epstein Lindy Snider James Moll Anita Friedman Sarah Sternklar Andy Friendly Leesa Wagner Founding Advisory Trudy Gottesman Karla Ballard Williams Committee Eric Greenberg Michael Wunderman Karen Kushell Marcy B. Gringlas Branko Lustig Dan Hilferty Gerald R. Molen Harry Krakowski William Lauder Bruce Ramer Harry Robinson

In Memoriam Edgar M. Bronfman Erna Finci Viterbi Lew Wasserman

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