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Closed Captioning Available for Select IWitness Activities
From the Visual History Archive
Leon Leyson on Oskar Schindler
Impact in Profile
Meet Meg and Jack Lipstone
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Closed Captioning Available for Select IWitness Activities
USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to provide closed captioning for IWitness activities and the IWitness Video Challenge, thanks to a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
From the Visual History Archive
Leon Leyson on Oskar Schindler
Leon Leyson describes working in Oskar Schindler’s factory and how Schindler treated all of his employees with such respect. This testimony clip is featured in the IWitness Video Challenge activity.
Impact in Profile
Meet Meg and Jack Lipstone
Meg Lipstone and her son, Jack, 13, are eager to start spreading the word about IWitness as part of USC Shoah Foundation’s new IWitness Advocacy program.
Latest News
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 - 5:00pm
USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to provide closed captioning for IWitness activities and the IWitness Video Challenge, thanks to a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
Monday, March 2, 2015 - 5:00pm
Wolf Gruner, Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, has published two new books about discriminatory policies against two distinct groups: the Jews in the annexed territories of the Third Reich and the indigenous people of Bolivia in the 19th century.
Friday, February 27, 2015 - 5:00pm
During her lecture as the 2014-15 Center Fellow of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research on Thursday at USC Doheny Memorial Library, Peg LeVine shared her experiences studying a unique form of violence during the Cambodian Genocide.
Thursday, February 26, 2015 - 5:00pm
The four-year project will identify and develop resources, activities and pathways into IWitness that will be appropriate and effective for teaching the Holocaust and other topics at Jewish day schools of all denominations.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 5:00pm
A Holocaust studies professor from the Russian State University for Humanities in Moscow has been awarded the 2015-16 Center Fellowship by USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - 5:00pm
After displaying testimonies from the Visual History Archive in its exhibit The Orient in Bohemia this fall, the Jewish Museum in Prague continues utilizing filmed testimony in its latest exhibit: “Shattered Hopes: Postwar Czechoslovakia as a Crossroads of Jewish Life.”
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - 3:49pm
USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to announce Stephen A. Cozen as chairman of its Board of Councilors.
Monday, February 23, 2015 - 5:00pm
USC Shoah Foundation and its Center for Advanced Genocide Research are hosting two events this week that are free and open to the public.
Friday, February 20, 2015 - 5:00pm
Kori Street, USC Shoah Foundation Director of Education, will join other education experts for a panel discussion at the Responsibility 2015 conference in New York City, which will commemorate the centennial anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
Thursday, February 19, 2015 - 5:00pm
Testimony can be intense, heart-wrenching, and emotional. It can include stories that are harrowing or even hopeful. And it can also be poetic.
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February 27, 2015
When I met Auschwitz survivor Eva Mozes Kor in January, she was dozing on a chair that doubles as her walker, wearing a contented smile while a flurry of activity buzzed around her.
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