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Art, Music and Speakers to Commemorate Armenian Genocide at Tommy Trojan
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Erna Anolik on arriving at Auschwitz
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Art, Music and Speakers to Commemorate Armenian Genocide at Tommy Trojan
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.
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From the Visual History Archive
Erna Anolik on arriving at Auschwitz
Erna Anolik recalls the intake procedures at Auschwitz, including shaving off her hair, undressing in front of soldiers, and only being given a grey dress and wooden shoes.
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Meet Andrea Peto
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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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.
Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 4:33pm
Forty-nine universities and museums around the world now have full access to the Visual History Archive. The Visual History Archive's 52,000 testimonies will be available to members of the University of Vienna - faculty and students - for the purposes of teaching, studying and research.
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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.