In a time of rising campus antisemitism, USC gives its highest honor to Holocaust survivors

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In a time of pervasive campus antisemitism, USC bestows its highest honor on a prominent Holocaust group.

As virulent antisemitism roils the nation's college campuses in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war, USC is making a rare gesture to recognize the crippling effect of anti-Jewish hatred on society and the human spirit. The university on Monday will give its highest honor — one that it has awarded only three times in its history — to Holocaust survivors.

Most recently, foundation researchers have recorded testimonies of Jewish and non-Jewish victims of the Oct. 7 attacks. 'Education about the Holocaust is not enough,' said Shoah Foundation executive director Robert J. Williams, speaking to the importance of seeing and hearing survivors. Although the foundation has expanded the kinds of atrocities it documents, he said capturing the experiences of Palestinians in Gaza is not in his 'current mandate.

 

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