We Are Living Links

We mobilize and empower descendants of Holocaust survivors to carry forward testimony with power and purpose.

Share your story and ensure the lessons of the past shape a better future.

Tell Your Story

Masha Friedman, Holocaust survivor with her great-niece, Alison Berg.
IN LOVING MEMORY: A TRIBUTE TO MASHA →

A Promise to Keep

Almost 3 million descendants of Holocaust survivors live in the United States. We honor our families’ legacies by sharing their stories, humanizing history, and carrying forward legacy. Descendant voices uniquely inspire others to stand up to hatred, bigotry, and antisemitism, to shape a better world.

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Engage and Inspire

Listening to descendants of Holocaust survivors does something textbooks can’t. We turn history, often described in numbers, into personal experiences that engage students. Our speakers are available virtually and in-person nationwide.

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Share Your Legacy

Learn how to share your family's Holocaust experience with students and community groups while connecting with your own family history in new ways. You'll meet others with this shared legacy and discover what carrying this forward means for you. We provide the tools for storytelling. You provide the voice and find your purpose.

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Get involved and mobilize descendants in community, civic engagement, and education by joining a 3G network in your area.

Find Your Community

Will You Speak for
the Future?

Each month, we spotlight a Living Links speaker and the story that drives them to share their family’s legacy with others. Together, we can carry forward testimony to generations who will never hear a survivor’s voice firsthand and inspire them to learn from the lessons of the Holocaust.

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Your Voice. Your Impact.

“I learned that hearing about her grandfather’s experience made me realize how easily people can lose everything because of hate and lies. It shows why people have to speak out when they see injustice.”
High School Student, MD
“When I heard that he was almost killed for stealing potatoes, it made me think about how starvation and cruelty can make people lose their humanity — and how others can choose to act with compassion, even in evil systems.”
High School Student
“It was shocking that someone could be spared just because they were useful. It made me think about how people’s lives were decided by others’ needs instead of any sense of justice.”
High School Student
"Hearing a real story makes a much bigger impact than just reading about it."
High School Student
"It wasn’t just history—it felt personal."
Middle School Student
"This helped me understand the Holocaust in a way I never had before."
High School Student

A Visionary Partnership

The USC Shoah Foundation is proud to partner with Living Links to ensure the strength of the 3G community and the expansion of a network of descendants dedicated to sharing the lessons of the Holocaust.

The USC Shoah Foundation preserves and amplifies the voices of the past to build a future that remembers. The Visual History Archive (VHA) is home to more than 56,000 testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust.The Countering Antisemitism Through Testimony collection documents post-Holocaust antisemitism around the world.

The VHA, which is indexed, fully digitized, and searchable, is the largest video collection of Holocaust testimonies in the world. The USC Shoah Foundation engages scholars, researchers, policymakers, and educators in building conversations and fostering insights and practical solutions to confront antisemitism, strengthen democratic values, and remember the Holocaust.

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I believe firmly and profoundly that whoever listens to a witness becomes a witness, so those who hear us, those who read us must continue to bear witness for us. Until now, they’re doing it with us. At a certain point in time, they will do it for all of us.

— ELIE WIESEL