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Blavatnik Archive Foundation's Multimedia Exhibit on Soviet Jewish Soldiers Opens at USC Doheny Library
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Aurora Mardiganian on the Armenian Genocide
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Blavatnik Archive Foundation's Multimedia Exhibit on Soviet Jewish Soldiers Opens at USC Doheny Library
Thursday marks the grand opening of the Blavatnik Archive Foundation's exhibit about Soviet Jewish soldiers during World War II presented by USC Shoah Foundation and USC Doheny Library - See more at: http://sfi.usc.edu/#sthash.oqnmlIu4.dpuf
Thursday marks the grand opening of the Blavatnik Archive Foundation's exhibit about Societ Jewish soldiers during World War II presented by USC Shoah Foundation and USC Doheny Library.
(Photo courtesy of the Blavatnik Archive Foundation)
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From the Visual History Archive
Aurora Mardiganian on the Armenian Genocide
Aurora Mardiganian reflects on her family member's deaths during the Armenian Genocide. Aurora's testimony is one of the 400 interviews from the Armenian Film Foundation. Pictured Armenian refugees in 1915.
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Through her research, writing and teaching, Andrea Peto is introducing students and her colleagues at Central European University to the many scholarly applications of the Visual History Archive.
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Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 3:00pm
Thursday marks the grand opening of the Blavatnik Archive Foundation's exhibit about Soviet Jewish soldiers during World War II presented by USC Shoah Foundation and USC Doheny Library.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 3:03pm
USC’s Armenian Student Association and Shoah Foundation Student Association (SFISA) are teaming up to produce an on-campus commemoration event for the 99th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide Thursday at noon, showcasing Armenian culture and history.
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 4:34pm
Visitors to the Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oświęcim, Poland, will view USC Shoah Foundation testimony in the center’s permanent exhibit beginning in May.
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 3:28pm
Dr. J. Michael Hagopian’s collection of 400 interviews of Armenian Genocide survivors and witnesses drew one step closer to being fully integrated into the Visual History Archive today. The Armenian Film Foundation officially handed over the collection to the USC Shoah Foundation, where the process of cataloguing and indexing will begin.
Friday, April 18, 2014 - 5:00pm
USC Shoah Foundation has embarked on a partnership with Windward School - its first partner school in Los Angeles - to introduce Windward's teachers to the methodology of teaching with testimony and to integrate testimony-based educational activities into the school's curriculum.
Thursday, April 17, 2014 - 3:52pm
USC Shoah Foundation and leaders around the world are condemning an anti-Semitic flier given to Jews in Donetsk, Ukraine, ordering them to register with the government or face deportation and confiscation of property.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 4:33pm
Students using IWitness can now explore nearly 1,000 historical documents, photographs, publications and video testimonies to contextualize their learning about the Rwandan Tutsi Genocide.
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 5:00pm
Bruce Springsteen will perform at the USC Shoah Foundation's 20th anniversary Ambassadors for Humanity gala on May 7, 2014 in Los Angeles. Conan O'Brien will host the event, with special guest Liam Neeson.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 4:30pm
The first-ever winner of the IWitness Video Challenge has been chosen: Voices of Our Journey, by Ruth Hernandez.
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 4:24pm
All over the world, Jewish survivors of the Holocaust era are giving testimony – but not for USC Shoah Foundation’s original collection of over 51,000 Holocaust survivor testimonies. Instead, they are the first participants of the new Testimonies of North Africa and the Middle East project.
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April 22, 2014
Historical memory is dangerous. In times of crisis, its demons emerge, ugly, toxic, and potentially lethal. We saw it in Donetsk last week. Jews emerging from synagogue during Passover found themselves the target of a despicable anti-Semitic attack – new crisis, old anti-Semitism, which this time accused the Jews of acts of collaboration as far back as 1941.