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USC Shoah Foundation Presents Testimonies at 73rd Session of United Nations General Assembly
A film by USC Shoah Foundation featuring video testimonies on current antisemitism opened a high-level panel Wednesday organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural…
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Two Institute staffers contribute to ‘International Directory of National Archives’
Researchers and archivists interested in the latest version of International Directory of National Archives may notice two contributor names familiar to USC Shoah Foundation’s Information Technology…
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Call for Papers: Comparative Lenses: Video Testimonies of Survivors and Eyewitnesses on Genocide and Mass Violence
Call for Papers:
International Conference "Comparative Lenses: Video Testimonies of Survivors and Eyewitnesses on Genocide and Mass Violence"
June 6-7, 2019
Organized by the…
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Thorny campus-climate issues addressed head on at Summit
At George Washington University in D.C., a student posted a photo on Snapchat of two sorority members holding a banana peel with the caption, “I’m 1/16 black.”
At Northwestern University in…
Monday, September 17, 2018
The antisemitic vandalism of Elie Wiesel's house hits home
More than 70 years have passed since the murder of six million European Jews at the hands of Nazis and their collaborators. Memorials have been constructed, institutes have been formed, and survivors…
Monday, September 17, 2018
'The Girl and The Picture' is open to general audiences
Starting today, The Girl and The Picture, USC Shoah Foundation’s documentary about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, is being shown for one week at the Laemmle Monica Film Center in Santa Monica.
The…
Friday, September 14, 2018
In Memory: Holocaust survivor Henry Bawnik
USC Shoah Foundation is saddened to learn of the recent passing of Henry Bawnik, who survived a Jewish ghetto and four concentration camps during the Holocaust, only to nearly die on one of the last…
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Visual History Archive now searchable on USC Libraries and other catalogues
Nearly a year and a half into its long-running cataloguing project, a small team from USC Shoah Foundation’s Information Technology Services department has completed a major task: the development of…
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Rohingya testimonies added to Visual History Archive
For Rohingya villager Shafika Begum, life in Myanmar was isolating but for the most part peaceful until 2012.
That’s when the Myanmar military of the Buddhist-majority began making regular…
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Visual History Archive sees largest-ever quarterly jump in subscribers
A consortium of more than 40 Hungarian academic institutions and public libraries has subscribed to the Visual History Archive, amounting to the largest-ever quarterly jump of access sites to the…
Friday, September 7, 2018
Meet Charlotte Masters, granddaughter of a Kindertransport survivor
Charlotte Masters owes her existence to an act of kindness.
Her grandmother was rescued from the Holocaust by Nicholas Winton’s Kindertransport, which spirited 669 children – most of them Jewish –…
Thursday, September 6, 2018
USC Shoah Foundation and Leading Holocaust Museums to Premiere and Exhibit Award-Winning Virtual Reality Film ‘The Last Goodbye’
Los Angeles, Calif. Sept 05, 2018—USC Shoah Foundation—The Institute for Visual History and Education (USC Shoah Foundation) announces the museum premiere of its award-winning virtual reality film,…
Wednesday, September 5, 2018