USC Shoah Foundation

We congratulate Holocaust Museum L.A. and the Goldrich family on the opening of the Goldrich Cultural Center—a newly expanded campus dedicated to education, remembrance, dialogue, and community that continues the vision of Jona Goldrich and the museum’s founding Holocaust survivors.

The new center showcases multiple exhibits, including “The Beautiful Game..The Untold Story” which explores the Jewish impact on the game of soccer, and a state-of-the-art theater featuring the interactive biography (Dimensions in Testimony) of Holocaust survivor Renee Firestone.

We look forward to sharing the new space with our community.

Photos: Steve Cohn Photography

We mourn the loss of Barbara Byer, USC Shoah Foundation interviewer who conducted more than 100 interviews from 1996-2024. She passed away in May at the age of 87.

Barbara was an active interviewer for the USC Shoah Foundation from 1996 until 2001, completing 88 interviews in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.

From 2008 to 2009, she completed 5 interviews for the Florida Holocaust Documentation and Education Center; these testimonies are now held in the USC Shoah Foundation Archive. She returned to conduct 20 more interviews in the past three years for our new Holocaust survivor testimony collection.

We are deeply grateful for Barbara’s commitment to preservation and for her lasting contributions to the USC Shoah Foundation.

May her memory be a blessing.