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Any individual testimony of a Holocaust survivor tells a story that is personalized and unique.
But a new Jewish Studies class at the University of Toronto is encouraging students to watch USC Shoah Foundation’s testimonies in another way – using applied statistics – to test hypotheses and find broader stories that often aren’t detectible in any single interview.
The aim for the course – called Jews: by the numbers – is to take a quantitative approach to studying the humanities. Read More
Friday, July 26, 2019 - 12:00am
Today marks the last day of the USC Shoah Foundation’s 100 Voices to Remember Twitter project, a string of daily quotes from a different witness of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda for each day of its duration.
The atrocities claimed as many as one million lives over the course of about 100 days in 1994, when government-backed militias of ethnic Hutus went on a mass killing spree, targeting the country’s next largest ethnic group, the Tutsis. Read More
Monday, July 15, 2019 - 11:35am
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