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Board Member Mickey Shapiro Endows Academic Research Fellowship
Longtime USC Shoah Foundation board member Mickey Shapiro has given a gift to fund an endowed research fellowship program at the Institute’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research in honor of his…
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Second-Grade Students in Hungary Learn about Hanukkah from Testimony
A teacher in Hungary used testimony to introduce some of her school’s youngest students to Jewish culture.
Szilvia Szunyogh is a graduate of USC Shoah Foundation’s Teaching with Testimony in the…
Monday, December 21, 2015
Watch Testimony Clips in New Book from the March of the Living
A smartphone app makes it possible to view testimony clips from the Visual History Archive that are linked to the new book Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations.
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Friday, December 18, 2015
Top 10 IWitness Activities of 2015
As 2015 comes to an end our education team takes a look at the 10 IWitness activities most assigned by educators.
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Friday, December 18, 2015
New Dimensions in Testimony Wins Best Paper at Digital Storytelling Conference
The 2015 International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling awarded “Best Paper” to the staff of USC Shoah Foundation’s New Dimensions in Testimony project.This year’s ICIDS conference was…
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Over 50 New Clips Added to IWitness Watch Page
The IWitness team has added 52 new clips to the Watch page. These clips cover a wide range of topics, from the Armenian Genocide to the Nanjing Massacre.The Watch page is accessible to anyone, and…
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
To Keep the Memories Alive One Must Witness
I found as a teacher that the most challenging task when teaching about the Holocaust and genocide, is how to do it not using material that shocks the students to the point that they do not want to…
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
A Message from Andra Coulter
I teach at an elementary school for boys with behavioral and emotional difficulties that impede their ability to be successful. When we began our Holocaust unit in early April, it became immediately…
Monday, December 14, 2015
Twenty New Testimonies to be Recorded for Nanjing Massacre Collection
USC Shoah Foundation is honoring the 78th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre today by returning to Nanjing to record 20 new testimonies for its Nanjing Massacre collection.Director of Research and…
Saturday, December 12, 2015
IWitness Debuts First Theatre-Inspired Activity
Through a partnership with the National Jewish Theater Foundation, IWitness has added a brand-new activity that guides secondary students to develop historical narrative monologues using testimonies…
Friday, December 11, 2015
Museum of Tolerance to Host Screening and Q&A with Eva Schloss
USC Shoah Foundation is co-hosting a film screening and Q&A about the new film No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles on Sunday, Dec. 13 at…
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Happy Hanukkah!
You’re never too old to learn about cultural diversity.
I realized this over the weekend, on the eve of Hanukkah. My mom, a fourth grade teacher, told me about an incident she’d just experienced…
Thursday, December 10, 2015
French-Language Article Traces History of USC Shoah Foundation
USC Shoah Foundation’s French consultant Emmanuel Debono published an article about USC Shoah Foundation and its use of testimony in the French review journal Études arméniennes contemporaines …
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
My Homeland: Combating Hatred through Education in Poland
Poland faces a horrible wave of extremism after the election of a new right-wing government. As an educator and Polish citizen, I am not only scared by this type of radical hatred, but it also…
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Today Marks International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime
The United Nations has declared December 9, 2015, the first International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of…
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Renee Firestone Records Interview for New Dimensions in Testimony
It had been a long week and Renee Firestone was tired. But when a group of students showed up on Friday at the dark studio where she had spent days answering questions about her life, her mood…
Monday, December 7, 2015
USC Shoah Foundation Featured in Book about History of Testimony
A new anthology From Testimony to Story: Video Interviews about Nazi Crimes: Perspectives and Experiences in Four Countries includes two chapters about USC Shoah Foundation, written by its…
Friday, December 4, 2015
Students and Teachers Developing IWalks in Hungary
Five more IWalks are in development in Hungary as part of a new initiative led by teachers who have graduated from USC Shoah Foundation’s Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century professional…
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Polish “Teaching with Testimony” Participants Impact Schools and Communities with Testimony-Based Lessons
The 2014 cohort of Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century in Poland reunited to share the lessons they piloted in their classrooms over the past year, with impressive results.At the initial…
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
#BeginsWithMe - Changing the world through testimony
If you’ve ever watched genocide survivor testimony from the Visual History Archive and it spurned you to wonder what you can do to help prevent acts of intolerance and inhumanity, USC Shoah…
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Support USC Shoah Foundation on Giving Tuesday
Happy #GivingTuesday!Today is the day to join USC Shoah Foundation’s #BeginsWithMe campaign. Donate to USC Shoah Foundation’s Annual Fund, which supports initiatives across the Institute, including…
Monday, November 30, 2015
Call for Applications: 2016-2017 Greenberg Research Fellowship for PhD Candidates
Call for ApplicationsGreenberg Research Fellowship for PhD Candidates2016-2017The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites research proposals from advanced…
Monday, November 30, 2015
Maximilian Strnad Lecture (Summary)
Maximilian Strnad, University of Munich“The Fortune of Survival – Intermarried Jews in Nazi Germany”November 19, 2015 Maximilian Strnad, a young…
Monday, November 30, 2015
President Barack Obama Awards Medal of Freedom to Steven Spielberg
USC Shoah Foundation founder Steven Spielberg was one of 17 Americans to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama on…
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Teachers Learn About IWitness at Rwanda Peace Education Training
Forty educators in Rwanda attended workshops on using IWitness in peace education in Kigali this month, with another workshop scheduled for later this week.The workshops, titled “Advanced Use of…
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Maximilian Strnad Discusses Fates of Intermarried Jews in Nazi Germany
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research welcomed the University of Munich’s Maximilian Strnad to USC last week. Strnad gave a public…
Monday, November 23, 2015
My Giving Story
Like many of you, I sat in front of my television on the evening of Friday, November 13, 2015 and watched in horror as news of the terrorist attacks in Paris flooded the airways. "Not again," I…
Monday, November 23, 2015
USC Shoah Foundation Hosts Delegation of Nanjing Massacre Scholars
USC Shoah Foundation Director of Research and Documentation Karen Jungblut hosted a visit from several Nanjing Massacre scholars this week to introduce the work of the Institute and discuss future…
Friday, November 20, 2015
IWitness-CIJE Jewish Day School Initiative Launches in New York City
USC Shoah Foundation and the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education (CIJE) came together on Monday to introduce the IWitness-CIJE partnership in New York.In February 2015, USC Shoah Foundation…
Thursday, November 19, 2015
USC Shoah Foundation Records Testimonies About Current Anti-Semitism in Copenhagen
Unfortunately it is becoming an all too familiar scene: A man with a gun opened fire at a bat mitzvah celebration, killing a security guard and injuring two police officers.
Leaders of USC Shoah…
Wednesday, November 18, 2015