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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 …
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 …
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