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A Lesson in Kindness
This morning, I stood at attention as our select chorus sang the Star Spangled Banner. Looking at the flag in the middle school auditorium, I paused a moment to feel gratitude for growing up in a…
Thursday, December 22, 2016
Marion Pritchard, rescuer of children during the Holocaust, dies at 96
We at USC Shoah Foundation are saddened to learn about the passing of Marion Pritchard, a Dutch woman of great courage who rescued many Jews during the Holocaust. She was 96.
Born Nov. 7, 1920, in…
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Artwork by Czech Students Displayed for First Time at Ambassadors for Humanity Gala
Czech students have watched testimony clips from the Visual History Archive and created original artwork for the past three years as part of a national contest organized by USC Shoah Foundation. On…
Monday, December 19, 2016
USC Shoah Foundation Announces 2017 IWitness Video Challenge That Offers $10,000 in Scholarships and Prizes
The 2016 IWitness Video Challenge winners at the Institute's 2016 Ambassadors for Humanity Gala
Middle and high…
Friday, December 16, 2016
A Lasting Legacy Through Testimony
By Zach Larkin
USC Shoah Foundation Intern, USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Bachelor of Arts in History, Class of 2017
Just a few weeks after my Bar Mitzvah, I…
Thursday, December 15, 2016
USC Shoah Foundation Announces ‘100 Days to Inspire Respect’
Borrowing from a tradition set by President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he assumed office in 1933 and announced an aggressive agenda for his first 100 days, USC Shoah Foundation will offer 100 Days to…
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Apply for 2017 Conference at Center for Advanced Genocide Research: “Digital Approaches to Genocide Research”
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research will follow its groundbreaking 2016 international conference on the Guatemalan Genocide with a conference next year on digital approaches to…
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Documenting History: Survivor of the Nanjing Massacre
On Thursday, Oct. 27th, I witnessed history in the making. Nanjing Massacre survivor Xia Shuqin flew from Nanjing, China to Los Angeles to record a 3-D audiovisual testimony in Mandarin for USC Shoah…
Monday, December 12, 2016
Echoes and Reflections Pilots New Self-Guided Online Professional Development Course
December 15 will mark the beginning of a pilot for a new professional development offering from Echoes and Reflections: a three-hour, self-guided course that teaches educators everything they…
Monday, December 12, 2016
USC Shoah Foundation Honors Mellody Hobson and George Lucas at the 2016 Ambassadors for Humanity Gala
In recognition for their longstanding commitment to humanitarian efforts and education, Mellody Hobson and George Lucas were presented December 8 with the Ambassador for Humanity Award by Steven…
Friday, December 9, 2016
FilmRise and Amazon Acquire Distribution Rights to “Finding Oscar“
Courtesy of Finding Oscar/The Kennedy/Marshall Company
Finding Oscar,…
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
The Power of Community: Conquering Hurricane Sandy
On October 29, 2012 Hurricane Sandy struck my home: New York City, on a cloudy Thursday evening. Sandy had a massive impact on the city that never sleeps. The entire circulatory system, the subways,…
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Hungarian Institute for Educational Research and Development Visits USC Shoah Foundation
From left, Kori Street, József Kaposi, Andrea Szőnyi, and Zoltán Pompor at USC Shoah Foundation
…
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
USC Shoah Foundation Hosts Seminars on Teaching about Human Rights in Ukraine Conflict Areas
Educators from Ukrainian conflict areas attended two seminars led by USC Shoah Foundation Ukrainian consultant Anna Lenchovska and education author Olexander Voitenko.
Lenchovska and Voitenko…
Monday, December 5, 2016
Rutman Fellow Liliane Weissberg to Give Lecture at UPenn
In teaching her course on the Holocaust, Liliane Weissberg imparts one massive idea - survivors survive, but not necessarily intact. Next week, the University of Pennsylvania professor will be giving…
Friday, December 2, 2016
A Lesson in Technology and Humanity
For six months this spring and summer, I had the pleasure of leading a team of staff and volunteers facilitating the beta run of New Dimensions in Testimony (NDT) from USC Shoah Foundation at the…
Friday, December 2, 2016
Psychology Professionals and Students Use IWitness in Hungary
Psychology students and professionals in Hungary attended two seminars this fall that inspired them to use IWitness in their teaching and learning.
First, Andrea Szőnyi, USC Shoah Foundation…
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Holocaust Geographies Collaborative November 2016 Visit (Summary)
Holocaust Geographies Collaborative Makes A Return Visit to the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research
After the Lessons and Legacies conference in November, the Holocaust…
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Reconceptualizing Nazi Camps (Summary)
Reconceptualizing Nazi Camps: Changing Categories, Shifting Purposes, and Evolving Contexts
November 7, 2016
At this public panel organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced…
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Facebook Live Broadcast for Giving Tuesday Features Holocaust Survivor Paula Lebovics and Junior Intern Gabriel Hackel
Two years since they first met, Holocaust survivor Paula Lebovics and USC Shoah Foundation Junior Intern Gabriel Hackel talked about visiting Poland together, the importance of remembering the…
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Call for Papers: Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies
Call for Papers:
International Conference: "Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies"
Co-sponsored by the USC Mellon Digital Humanities Program
October 23-24, 2017 at the University of…
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Promoting Tolerance and Combating Hate Through the Inspiration of Genocide Survivor Testimony
“Try to understand each other and if you cannot love each other, then at least respect each other” -- Holocaust survivor Coenraad Rood
Doing the right thing isn’t always easy. Not only does…
Monday, November 28, 2016
Teaching respect #BeginsWithMe
In the aftermath of the brutal 2016 election season, educators are dealing with some familiar and some unprecedented challenges in our classrooms. Stereotyping, bullying and discrimination are sadly…
Monday, November 28, 2016
Finding Gratitude in the In-between
As fall meets winter, we find ourselves in the seasonal in-between – summer is gone and winter is not yet biting. Yet it is in the in-between that we find moments for appreciation with friends and…
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Armenian Collection Subtitling Nearing Completion
A little over three months after staff finished indexing the Armenian Genocide Collection, work on creating English-language subtitles for the collection is progressing quickly, with subtitles for…
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
IWitness to Be Presented at Terezín’s Annual Education Conference
USC Shoah Foundation Czech regional consultant Martin Šmok will give a presentation about IWitness at the Terezín Memorial’s annual international seminar for educations Nov. 21-27, 2016.
The…
Monday, November 21, 2016
New Dimensions in Testimony Begins Three-Month Installation at CANDLES Museum in Indiana
Eva Kor "talks" with Pinchas Gutter at CANDLES Museum
The fourth museum installation of New Dimensions in Testimony kicked…
Friday, November 18, 2016
#BeginsWithMe - Teaching about the consequences of Political Rhetoric
Several months ago in my former senior high school class, students were introduced to the ideas of illiberalism. When discussing this issue, students are faced with how governments will apply…
Friday, November 18, 2016
IWitness Provides Testimony Clips for French Contest on Resistance and Deportation
For the fifth consecutive year, testimony clips from the Visual history Archive are part of the annual “Concours national de la Résistance et de la Déportation (CNRD)” (National Contest on Resistance…
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Central European University and Duke University Collaborate on Course Using Visual History Archive
Students in Budapest, Hungary, and Durham, North Carolina, are taking a joint online course this semester on archives, memory and human rights. And last month, that included an introductory session…
Wednesday, November 16, 2016