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USC Shoah Foundation to Host Educator Workshop at JFCS Holocaust Center’s 15th Annual Day of Learning
USC Shoah Foundation will once again be represented at Jewish Family and Children’s Services of San Francisco’s annual Day of Learning on March 19, which brings students and educators together for…
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Testimonies of Jews in Morocco During the Holocaust to be Recorded for Middle East and North Africa Collection
Jacqueline Gmach interviews writer Naim Kattan for the Middle East and North Africa Collection
USC Shoah Foundation’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Collection will gain at least five…
Monday, February 27, 2017
American University of Paris Accepting Applications for Workshop on Visual History Archive Research
The American University of Paris will host a workshop October 26-27, 2017, dedicated to sharing scholars’ experiences conducting research in the Visual History Archive. Applications are due May 9,…
Monday, February 27, 2017
“100 Days to Inspire Respect” Week 6: Countering Intolerance
Every Friday, the following week’s 100 Days to Inspire Respect educational resources…
Friday, February 24, 2017
IWitness Video Challenge: Winning the 2016 challenge
This is the final blog in a three-part blog series written by 2016 IWitness Video Challenge student winners.
My name is Caroline, and I am one of the winners of the 2016 IWitness Video Challenge…
Thursday, February 23, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation to Conduct First Large-Scale Quantitative Study of IWitness
USC Shoah Foundation will soon begin recruiting teachers to participate in its first-ever large-scale quantitative study of its educational website IWitness. The study will examine IWitness’s…
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Celebrate Digital Learning Day with USC Shoah Foundation
If you would like to observe Digital Learning Day on Thursday, February 23, USC Shoah Foundation is here to help.
Started in 2012, Digital Learning Day encourages education leaders to…
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation Participates in Rwanda Peace Education Colloquium
An IWitness teacher training at Kigali Genocide Memorial in 2014, part of RPEP
USC Shoah Foundation staff members are in Rwanda this week participating in a colloquium about peace education,…
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
“100 Days to Inspire Respect” Week 5: Inspiring Respect
Keith Stringfellow's class at Charlotte Islamic Academy in North Carolina works on an IWitness activity
Every Friday, the…
Friday, February 17, 2017
IWitness Video Challenge: Making the Video
This is part of a three-part blog series written by 2016 IWitness Video Challenge student winners.
As a teenager, it is hard to know how I can make a difference in the world. Fourteen-year…
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Visual History Archive Informs Scholarly Books and Articles in 2016
Over the course of 2016, testimony from USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive contributed to a wide array of published texts, from studies about the methodology of the Institute’s…
Thursday, February 16, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation Presents IWitness at Czech Oral History Association Conference
USC Shoah Foundation was chosen to participate in the prestigious annual conference of the Czech Oral…
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Call for Applications: 2017-2018 Rutman Fellowship for Research and Teaching at University of Pennsylvania
Call for Applications
Rutman Fellowship for Research and Teaching
at the University of Pennsylvania 2017-2018
Deadline: April 15,…
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Teachers Learn About IWitness in Detroit and Southern California
Educators in the Detroit area and Glendale, Calif., attended professional development workshops on IWitness in the first months of 2017 in order to learn more about how to incorporate testimony into…
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Testifying at UN Tribunal in Cambodia
I recently was an expert witness from October 11-13, 2016, at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) in Phnom Penh, the so-called Khmer Rouge Tribunal that was established…
Monday, February 13, 2017
Katz Fellow Teresa Walch Speaks on Erasure of Jewish Spaces in Nazi Germany
To begin her talk about the erasure of Jewish spaces in Nazi-era Berlin, USC Shoah Foundation’s Robert J. Katz Research Fellow Teresa Walch asked the audience to think about what exactly determined…
Monday, February 13, 2017
“100 Days to Inspire Respect” Week 4: Community
Every Friday, the following week’s 100 Days to Inspire Respect educational resources…
Friday, February 10, 2017
Fellowship Opportunities for Undergrads, PhDs, Postdocs and Faculty at Center for Advanced Genocide Research
2016 Center Research Fellow Paula Cuellar Cuellar
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research is…
Thursday, February 9, 2017
IWitness Video Challenge: How our project began
This is the first blog in a three-part blog series written by 2016 IWitness Video Challenge student winners.
Middle school can be complicated. As students, we are preparing…
Thursday, February 9, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation Conducts Final 27 Interviews for Nanjing Massacre Collection
USC Shoah Foundation has made most likely its final trip to Nanjing, China, to record testimonies of Nanjing Massacre survivors.
The 27 interviews, recorded January 6-18, 2017, will bring the…
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Sixth Annual Malach Centre Conference Showcases Visual History Archive in Czech Republic
Scholars, students and the public came together for the sixth annual conference celebrating the Malach Centre for Visual History at Charles University, USC Shoah Foundation’s only full Visual History…
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
First they came for
First they came for the Muslims, and we said, “not this time.”
In their third day of protest in certain cities, demonstrators gathered in unity against President Donald Trump’s recent executive…
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Stephen Smith to Give Lecture at Jewish Community Centre London
USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith will give a lecture on the Visual History Archive, New Dimensions in Testimony and the future of survivor testimony at the Jewish Community…
Monday, February 6, 2017
“100 Days to Inspire Respect” Week 3: Civil & Human Rights
High school teacher Jennifer Goss leading "100 Days to Inspire Respect" in IWitness with her students. Photo by Sean Thurston
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Friday, February 3, 2017
Three wishes and an unexpected gift on Holocaust Remembrance Day
For a German like myself, International Holocaust Remembrance Day is a day that is both intensely private and profoundly public.
Seventy-two years ago, on January 27, 1945, Soviet troops…
Friday, February 3, 2017
Warsaw Council Members Commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day with IWalk
A group of Warsaw council members and representatives from the city’s cultural institutions gathered on January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, to go on an IWalk created by USC Shoah…
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Call for Applications: Graduate/Faculty Summer Research Fellowships for Summer 2017
Call for Applications
Graduate/Faculty Summer Research Fellowships 2017
Deadline Extended: April 30, 2017
The USC Shoah…
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Call for Applications: DEFY Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships for Summer 2017
Call for Applications
DEFY Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships
Summer 2017
Deadline: March 31, 2017
The USC Shoah…
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
First Interdisciplinary Research Week to Study Holocaust Survivors in Latin America
Clockwise from left: Lorena Avila Jaimes, Yael Siman, Alejandra Morales Stekel, Susana Sosenski, Daniela Gleizer Salzman, Emmanuel Kahan, Nancy Nicholls Lopeandia
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
The Rebel Academic: The Life and Work of David Cesarani (David Silberklang's Remarks)
The Rebel Academic: The Life and Work of David Cesarani
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research organized a symposium in the Fall to honor the work of leading Holocaust…
Wednesday, February 1, 2017