News By Year and Month
Ukrainian Teachers Learn to Use Testimony with Students Affected by War
Due to the ongoing political and military conflicts in their country, many students in Ukraine have something in common with Holocaust survivors: They have all experienced the fear and uncertainty of…
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Armenian Genocide Testimony Clip Series Begins Today
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and the first integration of Armenian Genocide testimonies into the Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation will release one clip…
Monday, March 30, 2015
Comcast’s Days of Remembrance: PastFORWARD Broadcast Returns April 15
Comcast subscribers will be able to watch USC Shoah Foundation testimonies and films exploring the theme of music on Comcast’s second annual Days of Remembrance: PastFORWARD broadcast.Last year…
Friday, March 27, 2015
Documents from Landmark Armenian Genocide Lawsuit Donated to Center for Advanced Genocide Research
L-R: Wolf Gruner, Stephen Smith, Evan Backer, Andrea Marootian, Vartkes Yeghiayan. Photo courtesy of AFPUSC Shoah Foundation Center for…
Thursday, March 26, 2015
"Past is Present" in Action: Karen Wells
This year-long series will catch up with teachers and staff who participated in the Auschwitz: The Past is Present professional development program led by USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education…
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
New Partnership Brings Canadian Testimonies to Visual History Archive
Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre (MHMC) and Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre in Toronto announced an historic agreement with USC Shoah Foundation to have their testimonies…
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Under the shadow of Paragraph 175: Part 1: Albrecht Becker
The Holocaust collection in USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive contains over [sfi:vha_testimonies_count] testimonies; however, only a mere six of those testimonies are from survivors who…
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Indexers Begin Training for Preserving the Legacy’s Canadian Collections
With the arrival of new testimonies and indexers, USC Shoah Foundation is advancing to the next stage of its Preserving the Legacy initiative.Preserving the Legacy uses the Institute’s state-of-the…
Monday, March 23, 2015
Application Open for Fourth Annual Teaching with Testimony Program in Hungary
Teachers in Hungary are once again invited to join USC Shoah Foundation’s Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century professional…
Friday, March 20, 2015
New Czech and Roma/Sinti Online Exhibits and Activities
USC Shoah Foundation has published a new online exhibit and two new IWitness activities that expand the Institute’s educational offerings in terms of language and subject matter.The online exhibit is…
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Strength in Humanity Triumphs Over Inhumanity
What does it mean to live 70 years after the liberation of Auschwitz in a world in deep crisis? What does it mean with all we know about the damage that hatred causes – after all the pain we have…
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Testimonies of North Africa and Middle East Collection Enters Second Phase
(Armand Abecassis is interviewed for the first phase of Testimonies of North Africa and the Middle East)USC Shoah Foundation is planning to…
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Free IWitness Video Challenge Webinar Thurs., March 19
Educators, have you entered the IWitness Video Challenge yet?If not, or if you want more information about the challenge and how it works, you are invited to attend a free webinar Thursday, March 19…
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Chief Technology Officer Sam Gustman Delivers Keynote at “Metadata Madness” Conference
USC Shoah Foundation CTO Sam Gustman is the keynote speaker at Tuesday’s Metadata Madness conference in Los Angeles, which will convene data experts from across the entertainment and technology…
Monday, March 16, 2015
Results Are In for 16th Annual Holocaust Art & Writing Contest
(First place high school art: Joshua Sands, "The Writing on the Wall")Stunning works of art, film and writing have once again been given top…
Friday, March 13, 2015
Inside IWitness: “Information Quest: Ellis Lewin”
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. Students examine…
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Příjezd do Osvětimi - fotografie a osobní prožitky
V platformě IWitness je k dispozici nová aktivita v češtině nazvaná Příjezd do Osvětimi - fotografie a osobní prožitky. V průběhu této aktivity studenti zkoumají historické fotografie coby primární…
Thursday, March 12, 2015
IWalks in Vinohrady and Radiotrh, Czech Republic, Published Online
The complete resources and video clips for two IWalks in Czech Republic have been published on the USC Shoah Foundation website. These online resources make it possible for anyone to embark on the…
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Peter Hayes speaks on the different but related hatred of gays and Jews during the Nazi regime
On Tuesday, March 10, 2015, the USC Center for Advanced Genocide Research hosted a lecture from Dr. Peter Hayes who spoke before a packed room at USC on the complex relationship between anti-Semitism…
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Stephen Smith Talks Future of Holocaust Education and Armenian Genocide
(Stephen Smith and Michael Abramowitz at CAJM's Open Source: Jewish Museums and Collaborative Culture conference. Photo by…
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
"Past is Present" in Action: Jeannie Woods
This year-long series will catch up with teachers and staff who participated in the Auschwitz: The Past is Present professional development program led by USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education…
Monday, March 9, 2015
You can always find a piece of relevant testimony in the Visual History Archive
In February, I participated in an international conference titled Are we losing memory? Forgotten sites of Nazi forced labor in Central Europe. The event organized by the Terezin Initiative…
Monday, March 9, 2015
Educators Praise IWitness at Reflective Workshop in Rwanda
(Educators talk about IWitness in a panel discussion at Kigali Genocide Memorial)With IWitness in Rwanda entering…
Friday, March 6, 2015
Make it Happen – The Women of the Visual History Archive
On March 8, 2015 there will be events all over the world celebrating the achievements of women for International Women’s Day. This year’s theme Make it Happen encourages action for advancing women’s…
Friday, March 6, 2015
Inside IWitness: "New Beginnings - Journey to America"
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. Most students are…
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Purim is No Celebration
Only on Halloween would you expect to meet Xena Princess Warrior out on the streets, unless that is, she is with a small lion with payot, in which it case it is likely Purim. Turning ghouls into…
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Hungarian Students Write About Testimony in Art and Writing Contest
(Left to right: Luca Szöllősi, Csenge Gábeli and Anna Breczku)When ninth grader Csenge Gábeli started watching her first-ever clip of testimony from…
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Closed Captioning Available for Select IWitness Activities
USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to provide closed captioning for IWitness activities and the IWitness Video Challenge, thanks to a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.By adding closed…
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Wolf Gruner Publishes New Books on the German Reich and Indigenous People of Bolivia
Wolf Gruner, Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, has published two new books about discriminatory…
Monday, March 2, 2015