Our mission is to develop empathy, understanding and respect through testimony
100 Days to Inspire Respect & Hope
Week 13: Owning our Values
This week’s theme focuses on owning our values. In this clip from the Visual History Archive, Guatemalan genocide survivor and activist Rosalina Tuyuk encourages the youth to value life and act as the protagonists for the future.
Upcoming Events
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Apr
We Are The Tree of Life : Carry On Preview Screening
USC Shoah Foundation Event
To announce the We Are The Tree of Life performing arts project, we are screening a short video that showcases some of the art created during the Holocaust and features Dr. Edith Eva Eger’s life story as a dancer.…
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April 20, 2021
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Online Event
21
Apr
How the Holocaust’s Jewish Calendars Bear Witness
Center for Advanced Genocide Research Event
In this lecture, Alan Rosen considers the special manner of witness found in Holocaust-era calendars composed in ghettos, in camps, and in hiding. The marking of fast days and festivals tell a remarkable story; the form, organization, and languages of the calendars convey a related one. And as with testimony in general, what is omitted—a date or a...
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April 21, 2021
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Online, United States
21
Apr
Teaching Film with Testimony Webinar
IWitness Webinar for Educators
USC Shoah Foundation’s Teaching Film with Testimony is a multi-faceted interdisciplinary program that offers educators (K-16) best practices and access to a suite of educational resources for using both film and audiovisual testimony from survivors and witnesses to genocide to support student learning.…
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April 21, 2021
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Online Event
27
Apr
What is Stronger Than Hate? : Lessons from Testimony, Media and Scholarship
USC Shoah Foundation Event
The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School, and the USC Shoah Foundation, invite you to join Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow and University of Southern California President Carol Folt for an event celebrating Harvard University’s subscription to the USC Shoah Foundation’s...
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April 27, 2021
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28
Apr
Are ‘Bad Jews’ Nones? Exploring the Limits of Belonging on Twitter
USC Stronger Than Hate Program
The Casden Faculty and Graduate Student Research Seminar invite you to a discussion with Jennifer Thompson, Maurice Amado Professor of Applied Jewish Ethics and Civic Engagement, California State University, Northridge…
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April 28, 2021
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Online Event
Latest News
We are very saddened to learn of the passing of Holocaust survivor Irving Roth on February 16, 2021, at the age of 91. A survivor of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, Roth was a dedicated educator and author who taught generations of people around the world about the horrors of the Holocaust.
Friday, February 19, 2021 - 3:17pm
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Rosalina Tuyuk's message to the youth
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Walter Mason on Liberating Buchenwald
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Theary Seng, Cambodian genocide survivor
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Creative Storytelling
Our storytelling projects are both based on and inspired by the more than 55,000 testimonies in the Institute’s archive. They offer a deeper look into the emotional complexities of our survivor stories and told through the written word, video, audio and photography. They are opportunities to explore the impact that these voices have and the way in which testimony drives our understanding of conflict and grief as well as resilience, resistance and hope.

Together We Are Stronger Than Hate
Stronger Than Hate, an initiative that draws on the power of eyewitness testimony to help students and the general public recognize and counter antisemitism, racism, xenophobia and other forms of hatred.

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