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Students and Jury Discuss Winning Films at Student Voices Award Ceremony
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Elizabeth Holtzman
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Meet Syuzanna Petrosyan and Greg Irwin
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Students and Jury Discuss Winning Films at Student Voices Award Ceremony
The winners of Student Voices 2014 were Syuzanna Petrosyan and Greg Irwin for their film Play for Your Life. Shirin Raban’s There is No Other Way received the viewer’s choice award and Rebecca Baugh’s Love, Noemi received an honorable mention.
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From the Visual History Archive
Elizabeth Holtzman
Former United States Representative Elizabeth Holtzman, who describes her experience on writing and passing legislation in 1978 to expel the Nazi war criminals, to her surprise, had immigrated to the United States. (Picture US Capitol building)
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Impact in Profile
Meet Syuzanna Petrosyan and Greg Irwin
The stories of musicians during the Holocaust guided Syuzanna Petrosyan and Greg Irwin through the Student Voices Short Film Contest, and the result is their winning film Play for Your Life.
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Friday, March 7, 2014 - 4:29pm
The winners of Student Voices 2014 were Syuzanna Petrosyan and Greg Irwin for their film Play for Your Life. Shirin Raban’s There is No Other Way received the viewer’s choice award and Rebecca Baugh’s Love, Noemi received an honorable mention.
Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 4:31pm
Hungarian educators were enthusiastic about learning new methods for teaching with video testimony at USC Shoah Foundation’s first iTeach teacher education seminar last week.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 4:27pm
A special delegation of staff and supporters of the USC Shoah Foundation will visit Rwanda this April during the 20th commemoration of the Rwanda Tutsi Genocide to learn about the Institute’s work in Rwanda, reinforce their commitment, and share the experience with others.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 4:30pm
Visitors to the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles can now explore testimony from the USC Shoah Foundation within the museum’s core exhibition, Visions and Values: Jewish Life from Antiquity to America.
Monday, March 3, 2014 - 4:46pm
They do their work for IWitness all over the country, but this weekend the IWitness regional consultants came together for a seminar at the USC Shoah Foundation.
Friday, February 28, 2014 - 4:19pm
USC Shoah Foundation’s newest testimony collection, the Nanjing Massacre, is now fully integrated and viewable in the Visual History Archive.
Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 4:33pm
For help researching the deportation of Jews in France during the Holocaust, French scholars turned to the USC Shoah Foundation and its French liaison Emmanuel Debono.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 4:10pm
The ethics of studying Holocaust medical experiments will be the topic of conversation at the first-ever Zygo Student Lunchtime Series panel Friday at 12:30 p.m in USC Doheny Memorial Library room G28.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 4:18pm
USC Shoah Foundation’s work in Poland has come a long way since filming of founder Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List began in Krakow in 1993. Today, it is an important site for USC Shoah Foundation's testimony-based educational programs and resources.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 11:47am
Speaking at USC on Feb. 20, Zainab Hawa Bangura, the United Nations Undersecretary-General and Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, said that sexual assault is a deliberate tactic used to demoralize not only women – its most frequent targets – but also destroy families and tear apart communities.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
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March 5, 2014
The other morning I checked the BBC News website like I always do only to discover that French film director Alain Resnais had passed away at the age of ninety-one. Resnais’s films frequently explored the relationship between memory, consciousness, and the imagination in a non-linear manner and his innovative method of filmmaking won him numerous awards and prestige throughout his prolific career.