To overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry—and the suffering they cause— through the educational use of the Institute’s visual history testimonies

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• IWitness Adds EyewitnessesMay 16, 2013

   

• The Institute to be at ISTE 2013 in Austin, TexasMay 15, 2013

   

• Problems Without Passports - RwandaMay 14, 2013

   

• FREE WEBINAR: USING IWITNESS IN A FACING HISTORY CLASSROOMMay 13, 2013

   

• Students learn from memories of Rwandan Genocide survivorsMay 10, 2013

   

• “Small acts of repair”: Yom Hashoah scholar-in-residence discusses postmemory of the HolocaustMay 2, 2013

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• Poland opens Jewish museum on former site of Warsaw Ghetto: USC Shoah Foundation staff member named chief education specialistMay 1, 2013

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• A conversation with Stephen Feinberg, leading Holocaust educatorApril 26, 2013

   

• Enhanced by survivor testimony, "The Gypsy Poem" celebrates, eulogizes Roma peopleApril 24, 2013

   

• Every Genocide Leaves a Legacy: Rwandan Tutsi Genocide Testimonies Integrated Into USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History ArchiveApril 19, 2013

   

Press About The Institute

• The Times of Israel: "Adding a new dimension to Holocaust testimony"
• USC Dornsife News: "Mending a Broken Spirit"
• USA Today: "Spielberg takes horrors of the Holocaust into classrooms"
• Jewish Journal: "Reflecting on 20 years of 'Schindler' "
• Pravda.ru: "О Холокосте расскажут голограммы"
• Washington Post: "Holograms seen as tools to teach future generations about Holocaust, retell survivors’ stories"
• Daily Trojan: "Holocaust survivor talks of power of good"
• "Understanding the Universal" (USC Dornsife Magazine)
• USC Dornsife: "High Priorities"
• LA Weekly: "Best Video Art Exhibit - 2012 Tree of Testimony at L.A. Museum of the Holocaust"
• Daily Trojan: "Shoah [Foundation] offers tours, class resources"
• Prague Daily Monitor: "Teachers learning to use Holocaust testimonies in classes"
• USC Dornsife News: "A Look Behind the Visual History Archive"
• USC Dornsife News: "USC Shoah Foundation Institute Completes Preservation of Holocaust Testimonies"
• Los Angeles Times: "Shoah Foundation completes preservation of Holocaust testimonies"
• IWitness featured on Free Technology for Teachers.com
• Jewish Journal: "A close encounter with Steven Spielberg’s dad"
• Variety: "USC fetes Bob Iger"
• IWitness featured in the "Tech for Teachers" blog on Teachinghistory.org
• Jewish Journal: "Shoah Foundation presents Inspiration Award to Steven Spielberg's father"
• USC Dornsife News: "USC Shoah Foundation Institute Presents Inspiration Award"
• Philadelphia Enquirer: "Holocaust testimonials find a home at the University of Pennsylvania"
• The Jewish Exponent: "Shoah Project Arrives at Penn"
• Asbarez.com: "Shoah Foundation Director Discusses Digitization of Armenian Survivor Testimonies"
• Daily Trojan: "Shoah to add Armenian genocide witness videos"
• KABC Eyewitness News: "Armenian Genocide stories added to USC Shoah Foundation Institute"
• Daily News Los Angeles: "Shoah Foundation to archive testimonies from Armenian Genocide survivors"
• USC Dornsife College News: "Strength Through Adversity"
• INSIDE Magazine: "Teaching the Unimaginable" (page 34)
• International Women's Day Event Sparks Conversation
• North County Times: "High Tech High students highlight modern injustices through Holocaust footage"
• USC Dornsife: "USC Shoah Foundation Institute Launches IWitness"
• Guardian UK: "Steven Spielberg's Holocaust archive arrives in UK"
• Radio Srbija: "International Holocaust Remembrance Day"
• UN News Centre: "New online tool featuring video testimonies of Holocaust survivors debuts at UN"
• Daily Trojan: "Shoah starts new web application"
• NY 1 News: "Online Holocaust Curriculum Lets Students View Survivors’ Testimonies"
• UN Video Coverage: Launch of IWitness
• The Algemeiner: "Reflections of a Shoah Interviewer"
• Jewish Journal: Shoah archive expanding to include testimonies of Rwandan genocide
• Jewish Journal: ADL successfully expands Holocaust education workshop
• USF News: Studying Survivor Testimonies
• RAI.tv: Memoria online
• LA Times: A Holocaust survivor raised a fist to death
• CNN: Silence lifted: The untold stories of rape during the Holocaust
• The Armenian Weekly: "Unique Oral History Conference Held at UCLA"
• USC Dornsife College News: "Remembering their stories"
• The Daily Times: "Alcoa High School tests Holocaust website"
• Philly.com: "Spielberg to attend Shoah institute fund-raiser in Philadelphia"
• The New York Times: "Holocaust memories, via cable"
• KYW News Radio: "Survivors and their families join interviewers and videographers for reunion event in Philadelphia" (audio)
• Jewish Exponent: "Interviewing Survivors: 'It Becomes Part of You'"
• Jewish Exponent: Comcast Chairman/CEO Brian L. Roberts to receive Ambassadors for Humanity Award
• Newsworks: "Holocaust survivors take part in Shoah project"
• The Jerusalem Post: "Shattering shame and silence"
• Los Angeles Times: "Maintaining the memories of genocide"
• Annenberg TV News: "Nikias' journey to USC presidency"
• Rutgers University News: "Research and Teaching with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History Archive"
• San Diego Jewish Journal: "History in Motion"
• USC Dornsife College News: "History in the Making"
• Jewish Journal: "Teaching Holocaust lessons to YouTube generation"
• Jewish Journal: "Preserving and Amplifying the Holocaust Survivor's Voice"
• This is Nottingham: "Holocaust Centre family receive rare triple honour"
• Jewish Journal: "Holocaust Remembrance Project Celebrates Student Essays, Awards Scholarships
• Charles University News: "The Malach Visual History Centre: the Gateway to 52,000 Life Stories
• Jewish Exponent: "Brief Documentary on the Shoah Takes a Journey to the United Nations"
• BBC News: "The man who smuggled himself into Auschwitz"
• New York Post: "Gal, 95, beats Nazis, has 1936 record restored"
• The Jewish Chronicle: "Try USA for a mature Israel debate" (editorial)
• The Washington Post: "As Holocaust Survivors Dwindle in Numbers, Scholars Look for New Ways to Remember"
• CNN Video: "Genocide Investigators"
• USC News: "Shedding Light on History's Darkest Hours"
• Los Angeles Times: "Scrambling to preserve Holocaust memories"

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