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“'Finding Oscar' documentary explores US role in Guatemala's civil war”

KPCC, April 11, 2017

In the small Guatemalan village of Dos Erres in 1982, 250 people were killed by government soldiers. The documentary, "Finding Oscar," traces the story of one of the few survivors who didn't even know his own history until recently. It also explores the U.S. government's role in the Guatemalan civil war, which lasted from 1960 to 1996.

“USC Shoah Foundation receives World War II artifacts”

Daily Trojan, February 9, 2017

More than 70 years have passed since the end of World War II, but USC’s expanded collection of wartime artifacts may soon be able to offer new historical insights.
David and Andrea Stanley donated hundreds of items to USC Libraries and the USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research. The objects came from Andrea Stanley’s father Harry Wolff, Jr., an American Jewish soldier who served in Europe during the war, and includes numerous paper documents that depict Wolff’s wartime experiences.

“George Lucas during the Ambassadors for Humanity Gala: 'Now the truth is being victimized'”

Los Angeles Times, December 16, 2016

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg and the USC Shoah Foundation honored filmmaker George Lucas and his investment executive-wife, Mellody Hobson, for their commitment to education, diversity and humanitarian efforts during the Ambassadors for Humanity Gala at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at the Hollywood & Highland center in Hollywood.

“Moving and Shaking: USC Shoah Foundation, Israeli American Council, Danielle Berrin and more”

Los Angeles Jewish Journal, December 16, 2016

  For those eager to rub shoulders with Hollywood royalty, a great place to be was the annual Ambassadors for Humanity gala, benefiting the USC Shoah Foundation — The Institute for Visual History and Education.

“Rosario: U of M student crusades for Salvadoran victims of wartime violence ”

Twin Cities Pioneer Press, December 1, 2016

No question, Paula Cuéllar was born to be a human rights crusader.

Who?

She is but one example of people who walk among us with stories worth telling.

“Free Literacy Activity Helps Students Critically Think About Current Events”

Education World, November 8, 2016

A digital literacy activity created by the USC Shoah Foundation and available on iWitness, a free online education platform, helps students understand the difference between arguments, persuasion and propaganda on social media channels.

“HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS’ TESTIMONIES GET DIGITALLY PRESERVED”

Canadian Jewish News, October 29, 2016

A new initiative to digitize the invaluable testimony of Holocaust survivors should help permanently preserve this key resource for future generations, say archivists who are leading the effort.

“Detroit Welcomes Shoah Foundation Leader”

The Armenian Mirror-Spectator, October 27, 2016

DETROIT — On Tuesday, October 18, St. John Church of Southfield hosted Dr. Stephen Smith of the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation. Smith is the UNESCO Chair on Genocide Education; he visited the St. John Church and the adjacent Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum.

“Nanjing Massacre survivor records testimony in LA”

Xinhuanet.com, October 25, 2016

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Plainly dressed in a dark gray suit, 87-year-old Xia Shuqin seemed no different from any other suburban Chinese lady. However, her weatherworn face and her determined eyes suggested that her story was different: She had survived the Nanjing Massacre.

“Shoah Foundation Hopes to Make Itself Irrelevant”

Jewish Exponent, October 19, 2016

Oskar Schindler, look what you’ve done. 

The man who personally saved some 1,200 Jews from certain extermination by the Nazis by employing them in his factories — using most of his financial resources to protect them — has been gone for more than 40 years. But his work and legacy lives on. So touched by the story he brought to life in 1993 and the subsequent reaction to his film Schindler’s List, Steven Spielberg decided he had to do more.

“Historian speaks about Native American genocide”

Daily Trojan, October 11, 2016

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research hosted Benjamin Madley Tuesday to speak about the controversial murder of as many as 16,000 Native Americans by vigilantes, state volunteer militiamen and U.S. Army soldiers during the period between 1846 and 1873.

“Telluride To World Premiere Documentary ‘Finding Oscar’ From Frank Marshall & Steven Spielberg – Trailer”

Deadline, September 2, 2016

Among world premieres unspooling this weekend at the Telluride Film Festival is a harrowing new documentary Finding Oscar, which is produced by Frank Marshall and executive produced by Steven Spielberg in association with the USC Shoah Foundation. The docu directed by Ryan Suffern will have its first showing here in the Rockies on Saturday afternoon. You can see Deadline’s premiere of the film’s trailer above.

“Armenian Genocide Collection Indexing is Complete”

Asbarez, August 9, 2016

LOS ANGELES (USC Shoah Foundation)—All testimonies from USC Shoah Foundation’s Armenian Genocide collection have been indexed and will be integrated into the Visual History Archive (VHA) in the coming months.

Indexer Manuk Avedikyan completed the last 88 of the 333 testimonies in the collection last week. The collection was first introduced with 60 testimonies that were added to the VHA on April 24, 2015, the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Another 185 indexed testimonies were added to the collection in April of this year.

“Student news: Readington Middle School young poets win iWitness video challenge”

My Central New Jersey, August 4, 2016

Maya Montell, Allison Vandal and Caroline Waters’ video about the creation of a poetry group at Readington Middle School has won USC Shoah Foundation’s 2016 iWitness Video Challenge.  The eighth-graders’ newly created Poets Undercover Guild provides an opportunity for their peers to express their feelings and appreciation for each other by using the power of words in the sharing of poetry.

“The Power of Personal Stories”

California Educator, August 1, 2016

IWitness connects students with history, current events through universal human experience.

“Historic Holograms Amplify Holocaust Survivors' Testimonies”

The Creators Project, June 28, 2016

New Dimensions in Testimony is a multidisciplinary tech project that lets users converse in dialogue with Holocaust survivors.

“The virtual Holocaust survivor: how history gained new dimensions”

The Guardian, June 18, 2016

Pinchas Gutter goes out of his way to find me biscuits. In a sun-baked living room in his north London home, he opens a packet of Rich Tea, sits down and tells me about the Holocaust. Gutter was seven years old when the second world war broke out. He lived in the Warsaw ghetto for three and a half years, took part in its uprising, survived six Nazi concentration camps – including the Majdanek extermination camp – and lived through a death march across Germany to Theresienstadt in occupied Czechoslovakia.

“These VR Films Let Viewers Talk to Refugees and Holocaust Survivors”

Vice, June 17, 2016

Experiencing the brand-new “Alternate Realities” programme at this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest—the UK’s largest documentary film festival—was dizzying and diverse. Following on from Sundance and Cannes, which have recently made their first serious forays into virtual reality, Doc/Fest curators put 12 major VR and other interactive projects into their programme this year.

“Preventing Another Shoah One Testimony at a Time”

Jewish Exponent, June 14, 2016

Twenty-three years since Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, he hasn’t stopped collecting testimonies of firsthand accounts from Holocaust survivors.

Today, these stories and more, totaling 53,000 tales of horror and survival, have been documented and archived at the USC Shoah Foundation — The Institute for Visual History and Education, which Spielberg founded, housed at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. 

“How Natural Language Tech, Holograms Are Preserving Holocaust Testimony”

PC Magazine, April 18, 2016

In the 1990s, the USC Shoah Foundation conducted video interviews with thousands of Holocaust survivors, so that their stories are never forgotten. The nonprofit's digital library currently houses 53,000 video testimonies, and in recent years has expanded to capture testimony from those who witnessed the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide, the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, and the Armenian Genocide that coincided with World War I.

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