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Announcing Our New Fellows for 2013/2014
USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education is pleased to announce its Fellows for 2013/2014 academic year.Four Teaching Fellows have been awarded to faculty members at…
Friday, May 31, 2013
Saving Every Testimony
In the summer of 2012, after a four-year, multimillion-dollar effort to preserve digitally the video interviews in its Visual History Archive, the USC Shoah Foundation discovered that 4,755…
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Commemorative events held in Warsaw to honor the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
April 19, 2013April 19, 2013 is the day of the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Commemorative events held in Warsaw will honor the memory of the Warsaw Ghetto Heroes.These events…
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
A USC Soá Alapítvány (Dél-Kaliforniai Egyetem) Nemzetközi Oktatási Programja Magyarországon és Lengyelországban 2013
Jelentkezés a magyarországi program második évfolyamára az online jelentkezési lap kitöltésével MOST!Jelentkezési határidő: 2013. április 21.A USC Soá Alapítvány meghirdeti nemzetközi szakmai…
Friday, May 24, 2013
70-летие битвы под Сталинградом
2 февраля мы отметили 70-летие решающей битвы Второй мировой войны под Сталинградом. Эта битва изменила ход войны, что привело к окончательной победе над нацистской Германией. Около двух миллионов…
Monday, May 20, 2013
Nový materiál na portálu Moderní Dějiny: Volá Londýn
http://www.moderni-dejiny.cz/clanek/vola-londyn/Pomocí úryvků ze svědectví Oty Ornesta a Josefa Schwarce-Červinky z archivu USC Shoah Foundation jsou široké veřejnosti představovány prožitky…
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Praha: Vzpomínky pamětníků svedly dohromady vědce i pedagogy
Tři roky po zřízení Centra vizuální historie Malach na Karlově Univerzitě v Praze coby přístupového místa k Archivu vizuální historie je jeho význam pro výzkumné a vzdělávací aktivity založené na…
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Holocaust a regionální historie
U příležitosti Mezinárodního dne památky holocaustu, v rámci druhého ročníku programu půldenních regionálních seminářů byly českým učitelům ve dnech 21. až 23. ledna představeny informační zdroje…
Saturday, May 18, 2013
IWitness Adds Eyewitnesses
Over 70 new testimonies have been added to IWitness to increase the scope of experiences students can engage with. IWitness now features 1,321 video testimonies from the Visual History Archive that…
Thursday, May 16, 2013
The Institute to be at ISTE 2013 in Austin, Texas
Dr. Kori Street, Director of Education for USC Shoah Foundation, will be participating in a panel at the upcoming International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference in San Antonio,…
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Problems Without Passports - Rwanda
Dr. Dan Leshem and Dr. Amy Carnes of USC Shoah Foundation will be leading a course to Rwanda this summer that will allow USC students to study post-genocide reconstruction. The course,…
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Restoring memories of the Holocaust
In the nineteen nineties, videotape was the most effective format on which to record the testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses. But like all physical storage media, tape has a shelf…
Monday, May 13, 2013
FREE WEBINAR: USING IWITNESS IN A FACING HISTORY CLASSROOM
Facing History and Ourselves is partnering with the USC Shoah Foundation to explore how Facing History teachers can use IWitness, the Institute’s educational website, to shape teaching and…
Monday, May 13, 2013
Students learn from memories of survivors of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda
The students came to the Institute to search for and extract 10 video clips to use for a project in IWitness, the Institute’s award-winning educational website.
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Friday, May 10, 2013
“Small acts of repair” Yom Hashoah scholar-in-residence discusses postmemory of the Holocaust
The USC Shoah Foundation organized an April 25 lecture by Marianne Hirsch, its 2013 Yom Hashoah scholar-in-residence, who discussed her work on postmemory: the relationship that children of Holocaust…
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Poland opens Jewish museum on former site of Warsaw Ghetto USC Shoah Foundation staff member named chief education specialist
Monika Koszynska, the USC Shoah Foundation’s regional coordinator in Poland, has been appointed as Chief Specialist in Education at the newly inaugurated Museum of the History of Polish Jews…
Wednesday, May 1, 2013