News By Year and Month

Berlin Graduate Students Research Holocaust Victims for Stolperstein Memorial

USC Shoah Foundation Teaching Fellows Alina Bothe and Gertrud Pickhan’s course “The Deportation of Polish Jews from Berlin in 1938” has led to another family learning its fate for the first time and…
Friday, April 29, 2016

Holocaust Survivor Zenon Neumark Speaks to Students and Donates Historical Documents

Postcards written by Zenon Neumark during World War II, donated to USC Shoah Foundation On a recent Thursday afternoon, Holocaust survivor Zenon Neumark spoke at USC Shoah Foundation…
Thursday, April 28, 2016

USC Shoah Foundation Hosts IWitness Workshop for Educators in Macomb County, Michigan

As part of the IWitness Detroit program, USC Shoah Foundation education staff hosted a half-day IWitness workshop for educators at the Macomb Intermediate School District (MISD), Michigan, last…
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

The Necessity of Finding the “Us” and Not Focusing on the “Them”

News of the deadly bombs that ripped apart the Brussels airport terminal last month sent a shockwave through me. I know that line, that place. I have stood in that spot. The “what if” scenario is…
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Staff Begin Indexing New Guatemalan Testimonies

Ita Gordon, left and Sandra Gruner-Domic index Guatemalan testimonies As the Institute’s partner Fundacion de Antropologia Forense…
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Aleksan Markaryan: The Last Interviewee

USC Shoah Foundation mourns the death of Armenian Genocide survivor Aleksan Markaryan in January 2017. The story below was written in April 2016 when USC Shoah Foundation staff visited him at his…
Monday, April 25, 2016

Education Department Adds New Education and Outreach Specialist for IWitness Armenia

USC Shoah Foundation is expanding its efforts to develop educational resources about the Armenian Genocide with the creation of a new position devoted to the IWitness Armenia program.Sara Cohan was…
Friday, April 22, 2016

Passover in Bergen-Belsen

Passover, Bergen-Belsen, 1945. These two thoughts do not belong together: Bergen-Belsen, the epitome of captivity; Passover, the celebration of freedom from slavery. Rafael…
Friday, April 22, 2016

New IWitness Activity Shares Stories of Hidden Identities

The newest activity in IWitness draws on testimonies of Holocaust survivors to spark students’ reflection on how identity, and the struggle to hide it, can affect people from all walks of life…
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Survivors Share Poetry at Student-Led Event “Genocide Through Poetry”

Watch the Facebook live stream of the event hereTwenty-two and 71 years after surviving genocide, Edith Umugiraneza and Celina Biniaz, respectively, shared poetry they wrote about their experiences…
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

10 Interesting Experiences in the Armenian Genocide Testimony Collection

Testimonies in the Armenian Genocide Collection can be a great tool in the fight for Turkish recognition of the genocide on a social level. After spending nearly nine months working this collection,…
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

POLIN Museum Debuts Short Film on Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews premiered an original short film about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising featuring testimony from the…
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

185 Armenian Genocide Testimonies Added to Visual History Archive

USC Shoah Foundation published 185 Armenian Genocide testimonies in the Visual History Archive on Friday, nearly tripling the size of the Institute’s Armenian Genocide collection. At the…
Monday, April 18, 2016

Ukrainian Consultant Represents USC Shoah Foundation at Education Roundtable

USC Shoah Foundation’s consultant in Ukraine Anna Lenchovska shared the resources of USC Shoah Foundation at a roundtable discussion for educators at the Ukraine National Museum’s Memorial to the…
Friday, April 15, 2016

Students to Host Genocide Survivor Poetry Event

USC DEFY will host genocide survivors Celina Biniaz and Edith Umugiraneza on Tuesday, April 19, to read poetry they’ve written about their experiences during the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide,…
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Powerful Poetry: Three Activities to Help Students Connect with History

This month – National Poetry Month in the U.S. – is a great time to explore just how powerful words can be. When it comes to understanding difficult moments in history, poetry and writing can…
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Detroit and the Power of Testimony

Donate TodayMy name is Brandon Bartley and I’m a 17-year-old senior at Winston Churchill High School in Michigan. I want to tell you about my experience watching survivor testimony from USC…
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Sheffield Doc/Fest to Showcase New Dimensions in Testimony

Stephen Smith interviews Eva Schloss for New Dimensions in Testimony New Dimensions in Testimony will be on display at the 2016 Sheffield Doc/Fest…
Monday, April 11, 2016

Apply for Three Teaching Fellowships at Center for Advanced Genocide Research

USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research is seeking applicants for three fellowships until Friday, April 15 and Sunday, May 1.The 2016-2017 Teaching Fellowship will provide summer…
Friday, April 8, 2016

Giving Voice to Guatemalan Survivors: Cesilia Tujt's Story

In 2015 , I traveled to Guatemala with a small team from USC Shoah Foundation to train staff from a local organization called the Fundación de Antropología Forence de Guatemala (FAFG) to begin…
Friday, April 8, 2016

IWitness Video Challenge 2016: Rubric and Scoring

Every other week until the submission deadline May 13, 2016, USC Shoah Foundation will share insight about the IWitness Video Challenge.Once students have put the finishing touches on their videos…
Thursday, April 7, 2016

Resources for Teaching about the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

April 7, 2016 marks the 22nd anniversary of Kwibuka, the official anniversary of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. From April to July 1994, one of the most brutal genocides in human history…
Thursday, April 7, 2016

IWitness Has Most Successful Month Ever

IWitness celebrated a milestone in March: the most registrations ever in a single month.While the month of February brought a record number of 4,022 students and 385 educators…
Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Teaching Fellow Leads Conference on Survivors Who Give Multiple Testimonies

For many survivors, their testimony in the Visual History Archive is the only time they ever spoke publicly about their experiences during genocide. But for others, it wasn’t the first time they…
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Visual History Archive Presentations at University of Texas and Texas A&M

Rabbi Matt Rosenberg, left, Wolf Gruner, second from left, Adam Seipp, fourth from right, and Crispin Brooks, third from right, with students at Texas A&M…
Monday, April 4, 2016

An Oxford Experience: Making Testimony Relevant at Home and Abroad

While the average USC student was dragging themselves out of bed to make it to their first class after Spring Break, I was--rather jet-lagged--sitting in an 800 year old room cloaked in paintings of…
Monday, April 4, 2016

New Rwandan IWitness Activity Every Week in April

Starting today and continuing each Friday throughout the month of April, IWitness will publish a new activity geared for Rwandan students.The first activity is How Genocide Starts, which addresses…
Friday, April 1, 2016

Remembering and Recognizing Genocide

April is Genocide Awareness Month, a time to reflect on atrocities of the past while ensuring that we avoid acts of mass murder in the future. The urgency of this mandate was highlighted just weeks…
Friday, April 1, 2016