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Branko Lustig to Speak about USC Shoah Foundation at Let’s Cee Film Festival

Schindler’s List producer Branko Lustig will play a key role in this year’s Let’s Cee Film Festival in Vienna, which welcomes filmmakers…

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

USC Shoah Foundation Preserves Its History in Institutional Audio-Visual Collection

As the USC Shoah Foundation has gone about the business of preserving history through video testimony, it has also been quietly preserving another facet of history on videotape: its own. Now, in an…

Monday, September 29, 2014

2014 International Conference Roundtable Spotlight: Digital Archives in Research and Public Engagement

A different panel or roundtable at USC Shoah Foundation’s upcoming international conference, Memory, Media and Technology: Exploring the Trajectories of Schindler’s List, will be profiled each week…

Friday, September 26, 2014

Inside IWitness: “Chance and Choice: A Survivor’s Story”

Inside IWitness is an ongoing series that will profile each activity in IWitness, along with a clip featured in the activity and a teacher who uses IWitness in his or her classroom.Chance and Choice:…

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Delegation from Guatemala’s FAFG Visits USC Shoah Foundation

(L-R: Stephen Smith, Katia Orantes, Scott Greathead, Jessika Osorio, Fredy Peccerelli, Sandra Gruner-Domic, Wolf Gruner)USC Shoah Foundation is…

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Impact in Profile

I recently emailed a teacher to ask if he was willing to be featured in a profile story on the USC Shoah Foundation website about his experiences using IWitness in his classroom. I had never been…

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

2014 International Conference Panel Spotlight: Place and Media in Remembering Genocide

Friday, September 19, 2014

Inside IWitness: "The Power of Words"

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Steh Auf! - Merkel Makes Her Stand

A sea of faces dotted with “Nie Wieder!” banners wraps around the Brandenburg Gate in the heart of Germany's capital. As I join them on this Sunday afternoon, I cannot help but think of the crowds…

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Building Dams and Bridges

By Anne-Marie RevcolevschiThe Aladdin Project, which was founded in 2008, aims to dam the spread of Holocaust denial, antisemitism, and racism in the Muslim world, and simultaneously erect bridges to…

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education Launch Global Educational Programs to Support the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz

USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education is partnering with Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms,…

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

USC Shoah Foundation and World Jewish Congress announce global program to support 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education and the World Jewish Congress will be supporting the official observance of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz…

Monday, September 15, 2014

USC Shoah Foundation Launches “Focal Points” in Response to Current Events

View Focal Points: Anti-SemitismWhen news broke last winter of a pamphlet circulating in Donetsk, Ukraine, that ordered Jews to register with the government, USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director…

Friday, September 12, 2014

Global Communication and Education Program Announced by USC Shoah Foundation and Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Auschwitz: The Past is Present will support official activities of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp.USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute…

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Anti-Semitism: Know It. Name It. Shame It.

There is talk of a “new anti-Semitism” sweeping the globe, but all I see is the same irrational hatred aimed at the same perplexed victims, who are once again left wondering what has energized such…

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

USC Shoah Foundation Launches 2015 IWitness Video Challenge

Secondary school students have the chance to win a trip to Los Angeles by entering the second annual IWitness Video Challenge hosted by USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and…

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

It Happened Here, Right Here

By Kim Simon, Martin Šmok, and Andrea Szönyi (Teaching with Testimony participants at the…

Monday, September 8, 2014

2014 International Conference Panel Spotlight: Oral History and Mediation

Friday, September 5, 2014

Testimony Featured in “The Orient in Bohemia” Exhibit at Jewish Museum in Prague

A groundbreaking new exhibit at the Jewish Museum in Prague uses testimony from the Visual History Archive to explore the little-known fates of Jewish refugees in Bohemia and Moravia during World War…

Thursday, September 4, 2014

IWitness Partners with Hold On To Your Music Foundation for New Activity

Thousands of students around the world read Lee Cohen and Mona Golabek’s The Children of Willesden Lane each year to learn about one young girl’s experience on the Kindertransport during the…

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Beyond Evil

By Ervin StaubSurvivors of genocide are deeply affected. Research has shown that people who are victimized, even to a much lesser degree than those who are targeted in genocide, tend to perceive the…

Tuesday, September 2, 2014