News By Year and Month

Women Survivors Discuss Prevention and Forgiveness After Genocide

Celina Biniaz, Edith Umugiraneza and Sara Pol-Lim shared their stories of survival and resilience at the last Genocide Awareness Month event at USC on…

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Ad Agency Creates Multimedia Website Inspired by Testimony for Riga Ghetto Museum

The designers at Olson, an advertising and digital agency in Minneapolis, typically spend their days creating ad campaigns for clients…

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Armenian Genocide – Filling in the Bookshelves of History

A few weeks ago I went shopping at one of my favorite bookstores in Los Angeles. However, I wasn’t picking out a few books that would sit on my metro-read shelf. I was with a few USC Shoah Foundation…

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Doheny Library and USC Shoah Foundation Host Grand Opening of Blavatnik Archive Exhibit

A panel discussion and appearances by World War II Soviet veterans marked the grand opening of the Blavatnik Archive Foundation's exhibit at USC Thursday night.The exhibit is called Lives of the…

Monday, April 28, 2014

USC President C. L. Max Nikias Announces Center for Advanced Genocide Research with USC Shoah Foundation Founder Steven Spielberg

Seeking to build on USC Shoah Foundation’s 20 years of success in gathering testimonies of Holocaust and genocide survivors, the University of Southern California has established the Center for…

Friday, April 25, 2014

Blavatnik Archive Foundation's Multimedia Exhibit on Soviet Jewish Soldiers Opens at USC Doheny Library

Thursday marked the grand opening of the Blavatnik Archive Foundation's exhibit about Soviet Jewish soldiers during World War II presented…

Thursday, April 24, 2014

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…

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Die Multimedia-Unterrichtsmaterial "Zeugen der Shoah" und Onlineportal www.zeugendershoah.de werden im April und Mai 2014 im Detail auf Werkstatt.bpb getestet.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Historical Memory

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…

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Auschwitz Jewish Center to Feature Testimony in Permanent Exhibit

Visitors to the Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oświęcim, Poland, will view USC Shoah Foundation testimony in the center’s permanent exhibit beginning in May.The Holocaust survivors featured in the…

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Armenian Film Foundation Delivers 400 Digitized Testimonies to USC Shoah Foundation

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…

Monday, April 21, 2014

Reflections on a Mission

In April 1994, the genocide of the Rwandan Tutsis officially began, even though the persecution and killing campaign had gone on for decades. In 100 days, close to 1 million women, children and men…

Monday, April 21, 2014

Los Angeles’ Windward School Partners with USC Shoah Foundation

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…

Friday, April 18, 2014

USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Condemns Jewish Registration Flier in Ukraine

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…

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Nearly 1,000 Assets from Genocide Archive of Rwanda Incorporated into IWitness

Students using IWitness can now explore nearly 1,000 historical documents, photographs, publications and additional testimonies to contextualize their learning about the Genocide against the Tutsi in…

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

IWitness Video Challenge Winner is “Voices of Our Journey”

The first-ever winner of the IWitness Video Challenge has been chosen: Voices of Our Journey, by Ruth Hernandez.Hernandez attends Esperanza Charter High School in Philadelphia and was assigned to…

Monday, April 14, 2014

Testimonies Taken for New North Africa and Middle East Collection

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…

Friday, April 11, 2014

University of Vienna is Newest Visual History Archive Full Access Site

University of Vienna Library has licensed full access to the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive. The Visual History Archive contains 107,000 recorded hours of about 52,000 interviews with…

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Teaching and Research Fellows to Study Law, Photography and More in Visual History Archive

USC Shoah Foundation’s 2014 teaching and research fellowships have been awarded to professors and students from a diverse range of disciplines, including writing, anthropology, law and history…

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Comcast and USC Shoah Foundation Announce Multi-Year Agreement to Offer 'Days of Remembrance: PastFORWARD' Series Across Multiple Platforms

PHILADELPHIA, PA and LOS ANGELES, CA – April 8, 2014 – Comcast and USC Shoah Foundation, an organization dedicated to overcoming prejudice, intolerance and bigotry through the educational use of its…

Tuesday, April 8, 2014