News By Year and Month
In Brno, Czech Republic, an ITeach and New IWalk
After an ITeach workshop April 15 at the Brno branch of the Jewish Museum of Prague’s Educational Center, a brand-new IWalk in Brno is now available online.Martin Šmok, USC Shoah Foundation senior…
Thursday, April 30, 2015
USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education to Host Virtual Experience on May 13
USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, will host an interactive virtual experience for middle-…
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Women Share Powerful Stories of Genocide Survival and Reconstruction
(L-R: Aracely Garrido, Maral Boyadjian, Consolee Nishimwe, Jacqueline Murekatete)USC’s Human Rights and Genocide Awareness Week concluded last night…
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
We Stand together for Armenians
Thousands of people came to Times Square on Sunday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, and to demand the U.S. government recognize the slaughter of 1.5 million people as…
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
École normale supérieure (ENS) of Lyon Launches "Paroles de libérés" Exhibition
In conjunction with National Day of Remembrance of Deportation held each year in France on the last Sunday in April, ENS Lyon is mounting Paroles de libérés, a major exhibition looking at the plight…
Monday, April 27, 2015
First Armenian Interviews Go Live in Visual History Archive, As Delegation Attends Armenian Genocide Commemoration
As the world commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide today, the stories of 60 survivors and witnesses have been given new life. Starting today, the first interviews of USC Shoah…
Friday, April 24, 2015
For Michael: Մենք հիշում ենք - We Remember
For two full days in June 2010, while the camera was rolling in Thousand Oaks in the Hagopian’s living room, I had the privilege of being behind the camera while the late Jacob Michael Hagopian was…
Thursday, April 23, 2015
IWitness Launches Summer Teacher Fellowship
Eight teachers who are passionate about IWitness will engage with USC Shoah Foundation in an exciting new way this summer: a three-day teaching fellowship.The fellowship was awarded to eight teachers…
Thursday, April 23, 2015
USC Shoah Foundation Delegation Delivers 60 Testimonies to Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute
The first 60 interviews from USC Shoah Foundation’s Armenian Genocide Collection are now safely in the hands of the Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute.A delegation from USC Shoah Foundation is…
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Roma/Sinti Educational Resource “Giving Memory a Future” Presented at Council of Europe
(Milena Santerini, center, presenting Giving Memory a Future to the Council of Europe)USC Shoah Foundation’s educational resource Giving…
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
"Past is Present" in Action: Christine Cole
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, April 20, 2015
Comcast 2015: "Notes of Survival"
USC Shoah Foundation is currently in the second year of Days of Remembrance: PastFORWARD, a five-year partnership with Comcast to provide USC Shoah Foundation content to Comcast Xfinity customers On…
Friday, April 17, 2015
Explore IWitness in Over 90 Languages with Google Translate
Google Translate is now embedded in the IWitness website, making it possible, for the first time, for non-English speaking users to view the site in their own language.Simply select the language from…
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Finding Comfort in Music
Music is the purest form of communication. It transcends language and ignores the passage of time. It can be euphoric and elegiac, subtle and sublime. It joyously welcomes life and mournfully greets…
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
ITS Staff Begins Visual History Archive Site Visits in North Carolina
Doug Ballman, manager of external relations of the online archive at USC Shoah Foundation, paid a visit to North Carolina’s three Visual History Archive access sites earlier this month to receive…
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
USC Shoah Foundation and Texas A&M University To Develop Teaching Fellowships and Intern Program
USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education and Texas A&M University announce a partnership to develop fellowships for professors and a student internship program on the…
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Human Rights and Genocide Awareness Month 2015 at University of Southern California
USC Shoah Foundation’s student association, DEFY (Defying Intolerance Through Education), is working with other University of Southern California student groups to produce several on-campus events in…
Monday, April 13, 2015
USC Shoah Foundation Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute
(L-R: Michael Amerian, Wolf Gruner, Hayk Demoyan, Carla Garapedian, Stephen Smith, Gerald Papazian, Richard Hovannisian)Stephen Smith and…
Friday, April 10, 2015
Dr. Ugur Üngör Considers Role of Kurds in Armenian Genocide in Lecture at Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Dr. Ugur Üngör began his lecture yesterday at The Forum in USC’s Tutor Campus Center by asking a question that has plagued genocide…
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Українські вчителі зможуть використовувати відеосвідоцтва зі студентами, які постраждали від війни
Через військовий і політичний конфлікт, що триває, багато українських школярів знаходять спільне з тими, хто пережив Голокост: вони переживають страх і непевність війни. Регіональна…
Thursday, April 9, 2015
POLIN Edukatorzy muzeum z wizytą w USC Shoah Foundation
Trzy tygodnie temu USC Shoah Foundation zorganizowała w Polsce obchody 70. rocznicy wyzwolenia Nazistowskiego obozu Auschwitz. A w ubiegłym…
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Comcast 2015: "One Day in Auschwitz"
USC Shoah Foundation is currently in the second year of Days of Remembrance: PastFORWARD, a five-year partnership with Comcast to provide USC Shoah Foundation content to Comcast Xfinity customers On…
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Wolf Gruner Receives Research Grant to Study at Center for Jewish Studies, Berlin
Wolf Gruner, director of USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, will spend two months in residence at the Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Jewish Studies this summer researching…
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
"Past is Present" in Action: Johanna Söderholm
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, April 6, 2015
Remembering a Lost Friendship from 7th Avenue
Over the last few days I’ve overheard my grandmother and father talk endlessly about Celia Tiano, an Auschwitz survivor from Salonika, Greece, their next-door neighbor on 7th Avenue -- a quiet block…
Friday, April 3, 2015
Social Education Journal Publishes Article About IWitness
Three IWitness educators have authored an article about IWitness for the National Council for the Social Studies’ journal Social Education.The article is titled “With Their Voice: Constructing…
Friday, April 3, 2015
Teachers Attend Combined ITeach, IWalk and First IWitness Educator Training in Budapest
Educators in Hungary were busy last weekend. USC Shoah Foundation hosted three of its programs for teachers: an ITeach seminar, an IWalk through the Budapest Jewish district, and the first-ever…
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Woman in Gold - A Connection to Testimony
You never know what you are going to discover in the Visual History Archive. Each one of the 53,000 testimonies in the Archive tells a different story of life before, during and after the individual…
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Aegis Trust Rwanda Staff Receive Archiving Training at USC Shoah Foundation
By Cat VazquezUSC Shoah Foundation recently hosted a group of staff from Aegis Trust in Kigali, Rwanda. The guests Claver Irakoze, Archive Manager, Clement Muhire, IT Specialist, Fabrice Musafiri,…
Wednesday, April 1, 2015