IWitness Adds Eyewitnesses

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Institute to be at ISTE 2013 in Austin, Texas

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Problems Without Passports - Rwanda

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0800

FREE WEBINAR: USING IWITNESS IN A FACING HISTORY CLASSROOM

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Students learn from memories of Rwandan Genocide survivors

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 -0800

“Small acts of repair”

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Poland opens Jewish museum on former site of Warsaw Ghetto

Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 -0800

A conversation with Stephen Feinberg, leading Holocaust educator

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Enhanced by survivor testimony, "The Gypsy Poem" celebrates, eulogizes Roma people

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Every Genocide Leaves a Legacy

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Call for Proposals for 2013 Teaching Fellow Program

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Holocaust survivor testimony at USC’s German studies event

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0800

“Through an abstract lens"

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0800

How do dramatic artists deal with mass atrocities?

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Eyewitnesses to “No Place on Earth”

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0800

"Denouncing Violence Against Women"

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0800

USC Shoah Foundation participates in Yom Hashoah observance, launch of Six Million Coins™ initiative

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0800

“Where Is My Home”

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

At distinguished Hungarian University, USC Shoah Foundation introduces concept of “learning moments” found through survivor testimony

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Restoring memories of the Holocaust

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

“I saw myself finished”

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Student-films bring survivors' voices back to Czech borderlands

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Dario Gabbai and the Auschwitz Sonderkommando

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

In spring 1944, after losing nearly his entire family on the day they arrived at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, 22-year-old Dario Gabbai was assigned to one of the special units of Jewish prisoners required to work in the gas chambers and crematoria: the Sonderkommando. Members of these units were routinely killed, but Dario survived to take part in the October 7, 1944 uprising at Birkenau’s Crematorium IV.

IWitness at statewide “Day of Learning” for California students and teachers

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

San Francisco high school students participate in a multimedia workshop. In keeping with the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the theme of the event was “They Did Not Stand Idly By: Learning from courageous individuals and their acts of resistance in 1943.”

Through internships, USC students take part in the Institute's mission

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

On March 1, the Institute welcomed new interns at a special welcome luncheon. Interns come to the Institute from a variety of backgrounds and majors, brought together by common interest in the experiences of genocide survivors and the positive impact their memories can have on humanity.

The Anschluss and “The Legacy” of Austria’s Jewish survivors

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Seventy-five years ago this week, Nazi Germany entered Austria. With most Austrians in support of the move, the country was incorporated into Germany on March 13, 1938.

“Re-membering” the Khmer Rouge

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Institute co-sponsored a March 7 lecture by Dr. Cathy J. Schlund-Vials on the memory work of Cambodian Americans whose films, memoirs, and music represent a largely unexamined site of critique on Cambodian memory in the aftermath of genocide.

How will you spend your summer vacation? USC students invited to join us in Rwanda!

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Six Million Coins™ to aid Holocaust survivors

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Visiting scholar goes “against the grain”

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

"Teaching about the Holocaust"

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Student Voices Short Film Contest: Vote for your favorite film!

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

"Multiple intelligences" theorist Howard Gardner on digital media, learning, and empathy

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

USC SHOAH FOUNDATION FOUNDER STEVEN SPIELBERG ANNOUNCES IWITNESS VIDEO CHALLENGE

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Video series for teachers now online

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Schindler’s List to air on USA Network

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

USC Shoah Foundation joins peace-building initiative in Rwanda

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Tennessee educators experience the power of IWitness at Echoes and Reflections professional development program

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

70 Year Anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Training teachers in the Czech Republic

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Czech Republic: Survivor stories bring scholars and educators to Prague

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

USC Shoah Foundation presents stories of rescue at UNESCO’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day program

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The landscape of survivors' stories

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Anne Frank’s stepsister speaks at USC

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Association of Holocaust Organizations convenes at the Institute

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

IWitness endorsed by ISTE, TeachersFirst

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Institute, Anti-Defamation League train Southern California teachers

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

"London Calling"

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Institute honored by Arpa International Film Festival

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Seminar for activist-teachers in Slovakia

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Polish teachers train to use Holocaust survivor interviews in the classroom

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

USC Dornsife's smartphone-interactive feature on the Institute

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Jane Fonda urges remembrance of sexual violence during the Holocaust

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

“There your memory runs like a camera back”: Oral history in post-apartheid South Africa

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Master Teachers to introduce IWitness at national educator conference

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

IWitness at National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Haiti Jewish Refugee Legacy Project honors Institute’s Director of Education

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

IWitness in Australia

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0800

LA Weekly names Tree of Testimony "Best Video Art Exhibit" of 2012

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Remembering the Soviet Gulag

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0800

"Wall of Survivors" at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Teaching with Testimony in the Twenty-First Century

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0800

"Teaching with Testimony in the Twenty-First Century"

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Learning from three years of "Teaching with Testimony"

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0800

National Education Association adds survivor-testimony based classroom lessons to Lesson Plan Search Engine

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0800

“Teaching with Testimony” Master Teacher Follow-Up Workshop

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0800

International symposium, “Teaching, Testimony, and Transformation”

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0800

"Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century"

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0800

USC Shoah Foundation Institute completes preservation of Holocaust testimonies

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research convenes in Belgium

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0800

IWitness honored by American Association of School Librarians

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0800

IWitness featured on Free Technology for Teachers.com

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Yad Vashem International Conference on Holocaust Education to showcase IWitness platform

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0800

University of Haifa Gains Access to USC Shoah Foundation Institute Archive of Testimony

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Educators can share their ideas for IWitness activities on VoiceThread.com

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Steven Spielberg and USC Shoah Foundation Institute honor Robert A. Iger, Chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Steven Spielberg and USC Shoah Foundation Institute to Honor Robert A. Iger, Chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0800

International symposium to address relationship between Holocaust and genocide studies

Thu, 31 May 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Memories of Greek survivors

Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Holocaust survivors' testimonies aid neuroscience research

Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Steven Spielberg and USC Shoah Foundation Institute Recognize Arnold Spielberg with Inaugural Inspiration Award

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0800

"Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture"

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0800

LA City Council honors Institute on Armenian Genocide Commemoration Day

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0800

VHA access point opens at History Meeting House in Warsaw

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Visual History Archive launches at University of Pennsylvania

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Institute honored by USC Institute of Armenian Studies

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Yehuda Bauer and Father Patrick Desbois visit the Institute

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Inaugural Inspiration Award and luncheon to honor Arnold Spielberg

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The research of resistance

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Institute representatives visit South Africa, Rwanda

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Shoah Foundation Institute Student Association

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

USC Shoah Foundation Institute Partners With United Nations To Observe International Women’s Day

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

USC Institute of Armenian Studies Gala Event to Salute USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Armenian Genocide Digitization Project

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

USC leadership visits Israel

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New Dimensions in Testimony

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

All the Missing Souls

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Educational outreach to Czech borderlands

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Stories of Holocaust survivors unveiled to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London’s Holocaust Research Centre now have access to the nearly 52,000 video interviews with Holocaust survivors and other witnesses collected by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, which was established by Steven Spielberg.

IWitness Debuts at UN

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

More than 350 New York metropolitan area high school students will debut the work that they completed in the IWitness application at the United Nations Headquarters on January 23, 2012.

Subtitled clips of testimony in multiple languages show the depth of experience in the Institute's archive

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Institute Regional Consultants Convene in Los Angeles to Discuss Next Stage for its International Visual History Program

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Beginning Friday, January 6, 2012, regional consultants from Central and Eastern Europe have been on the USC campus for a 10-day-long workshop at the Shoah Foundation Institute.

Symposium, "The Future of Memory: Voices of Social Change?"

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Cuba’s First Permanent Holocaust Exhibit Opens at the Sephardic Center

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Institute participating in Hungarian Holocaust education fellowship program

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Institute Staff introduces IWitness at 100th annual NCTE Conference

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

When the Past is Present

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Institute Staff Attend International Task Force

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Institute’s archive now in the Cloud

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Institute welcomes new Director of Programs, Dr. Kori Street

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

University of Athens, in partnership with Freie Universität Berlin, gains access to the Institute's Visual History Archive

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust To Offer Public Access to 2,500 Testimony Videos from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

McMaster University becomes first site in Canada with access to the Institute's Visual History Archive

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Anti-Defamation League, USC Shoah Foundation Institute workshop for teachers

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Alan Rosen lecture: Early Holocaust testimonies taken at displaced persons camps

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Museum education directors trained on Echoes and Reflections

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Researching Dutch resistance: Institute welcomes visiting scholar

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0800

HBO-sponsored filmmaking workshop draws dozens of students

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Teachers in Komárno are introduced to USC Shoah Foundation Institute testimonies

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Interns arrive from Kigali Genocide Memorial Center

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Stephen D. Smith to moderate panel at USC Global Conference in Hong Kong

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0800

McMaster University becomes first Canadian repository of the Visual History Archive

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Dr. Dan Leshem on Hitler letter exhibited at Museum of Tolerance

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Award-Winning Filmmaker Michael Apted To Give Keynote Address at USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Student Voices Master Class Presented by HBO

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Michael Apted, prolific British film director and former president of the Director’s Guild of America, will be speaking to the public about testimonies and documentary filmmaking at 5 pm, Sunday, October 9 at the Ray Stark Family Theatre at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Partners with Freie Universität Berlin

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Spell Your Name Screening at the Ukrainian Cinema Club in Berlin

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wolf Gruner Becomes First Senior Fellow

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Italian-Language Memories of the Holocaust

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Read this item in Italian

Research fellow from Tel Aviv University lectures at the Institute

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Nazi hunter for U.S. Dept of Justice speaks at USC

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Doctoral student from Tel Aviv University becomes Institute's first research fellow

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Institute trains teachers in Czech Republic

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Stephen D. Smith lectures in Ukraine on "Testimony in an Age of Violent Ideologies"

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0800

"Pain of Memory": New education kit and training program for teachers in Ukraine

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Teachers Awarded “Teaching with Testimony" Certificate at USC Shoah Foundation Institute Professional Development Workshop

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Kim Simon to receive honorary degree

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Institute participates in UCLA program for high-achieving math undergrads

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Institute staff members teach courses at USC

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Institute announces faculty stipends

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0800

18 Educators return to the Institute for a 3-day follow-up professional development workshop

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0800

18 educators from the 2010 Master Teacher Workshop meet a year later to share their testimony-based projects and discuss the progress of piloting them in the classroom. Graduates received continuing education credits from the USC Rossier School of Education.

USC Shoah Foundation Institute offers professional development for U.S. teachers on the intersection of Holocaust studies and multiliteracies

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Northwestern University gains access to Institute's Visual History Archive

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0800

“Revolution of Conscience”: Stephen D. Smith at TEDxUSC (video)

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Video of Muslim who rescued Jews during World War II shown at 2nd-annual Muslim Jewish Conference in Ukraine

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:20:00 -0800

Institute holds workshop at 2nd annual Muslim Jewish Conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 5, 2011. Workshop included screening of a video clip of a Muslim rescuer who helped save a Jewish family from being executed at Babi Yar.

Executive Director Stephen D. Smith's Jewish Journal Op-Ed

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New Hungarian-Language Lesson

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0800

First Online French Lesson Used by Students in France

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Musical Performances from the Archive

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Holocaust survivors display their musical talent in short clips from their interviews for the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.

Spell Your Name Screened at International Forum 2011, Kyiv, June 22, 2011

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Archival Access at Salzburg University Brings Testimonies to Austria

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0800

L.A. Museum of the Holocaust to continue leading museum innovation with video sculpture using USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust to create 65-screen video sculpture presenting USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s archive of 52,000 interviews with Holocaust survivors and other witnesses. Survivor video wall to further award-winning, nationally-recognized Museum’s role as a leader in exhibit innovation

Balazs Bokor, Consul General of the Republic of Hungary in Los Angeles, visits USC Shoah Foundation Institute

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Institute's Dr. Dan Leshem to speak at seminar in Lithuania

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Hungarian Regional Consultant, Andrea Szőnyi, in Los Angeles

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Brian L. Roberts Receives Ambassador for Humanity Award

Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 -0800

13,000th Educator Trained on Echoes and Reflections

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0800

USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Executive Director to address CA State Assembly

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Comcast and the Institute Launch “Days of Remembrance” Series Featuring Award-Winning Documentary Films

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0800

USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Short-Film Competition Recognizes Students from across the University

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0800

STEVEN SPIELBERG AND USC SHOAH FOUNDATION INSTITUTE TO HONOR BRIAN L. ROBERTS, CHAIRMAN & CEO OF COMCAST, FOR HIS VISIONARY LEADERSHIP AND LONGTIME PHILANTHROPY

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Philadelphia Youth Institute Program Pilots IWitness

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Executive Director and Managing Director Speak at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's National Research Centre Forum

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Martin Šmok, the Institute's Senior International Program Consultant, discusses the Institute on Czech radio

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Introducing USC Shoah Foundation Institute in Subotica (Serbia)

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Stephen D. Smith, other Holocaust Education Leaders in Macedonia to Discuss National Holocaust Education Program

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:04:00 -0800

First Anniversary Conference of the Malach Center for Visual History at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:28:00 -0800

Two documentaries Using Testimonies from the Archive to Air on Italian Television

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:54:00 -0800

Ukrainian Society and Holocaust Remembrance: Research and Educational Aspects

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:46:00 -0800

Women and the Holocaust: Courage and Compassion

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

U.S. College Professors Attend Echoes And Reflections Seminar At Yad Vashem

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Steven Spielberg And USC Shoah Foundation Institute Honor Jeffrey Katzenberg, Longtime Philanthropist And CEO Of Dreamworks Animation

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Shoah Foundation Institute at OktaTARS – International Fellowship Program in Holocaust Education

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

STEVEN SPIELBERG AND USC SHOAH FOUNDATION INSTITUTE TO HONOR JEFFREY KATZENBERG, LONGTIME PHILANTHROPIST AND CEO OF DREAMWORKS ANIMATION

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Fates Closed in Numbers

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Podcast With Stephen D. Smith and the Holocaust Denial on Trial Project

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Problems Without Passports

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Central European University Seminar – Testimonies and Teaching: New Sources and Methodologies for Jewish Studies

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

“A New Generation of Learning: Holocaust Education and the Internet"

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0800

ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Video Testimony Beyond Borders: Ukrainian, Georgian, and Armenian Teachers Share Ideas

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0800

“Rwanda: Confronting a Painful Past”

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0800

INSTITUTE AMONG SELECT GROUP TO TAKE PART IN NSF-FUNDED RIPS PROGRAM

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0800

USC Shoah Foundation Institute Trains Teachers at Intersection of Holocaust Education and Digital Literacy Studies

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0800

NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY HONORS SMITH FAMILY FOR FOUNDING UK HOLOCAUST CENTRE

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0800

PRESERVATION UPDATE

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Stephen D. Smith Keynote Speaker at Holland & Knight Student Essay Contest Awards Event

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0800

"REFLECTIONS FOR A MORE TOLERANT WORLD"

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0800

WHAT'S YOUR ISSUE

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0800

TASK FORCE FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ON HOLOCAUST EDUCATION, REMEMBRANCE, AND RESEARCH

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0800

HUMAN DIMENSION OF THE UKRAINIAN FAMINE

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Students in UK Learn from Testimony

Thu, 13 May 2010 00:00:00 -0800

A NEW GENERATION OF LEARNING: HOLOCAUST EDUCATION AND THE INTERNET

Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 -0800

NEW LEADERSHIP ON THE INSTITUTE'S BOARD OF COUNCILORS

Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 -0800

USC College Faculty Member Wins Prize for Teaching with Testimony

Mon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 -0800

First Phase of Educational Program in Hungary Completed

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The first phase of the program in which educator teams developed multimedia lessons from the Hungarian-language testimonies of the Institute’s Visual History Archive ended on April 17, 2010 with an official ceremony at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest. The program was based on a three-way partnership between the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, the Holocaust Memorial Center and the Educational Research and Development Institute (OFI) of the Hungarian Ministry of Education.

Living Histories Co-author Receives 2010 Top Teacher Award

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0800

USC SHOAH FOUNDATION INSTITUTE SIGNS HISTORIC AGREEMENT WITH ARMENIAN FILM FOUNDATION

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0800

NEVER AGAIN, YET AGAIN

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0800

First International Academic Conference on the Visual History Archive

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

"RECONSTRUCTING THE HOLOCAUST FROM BELOW"

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

10,000th Educator Trained on Echoes and Reflections

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

USC Shoah Foundation Institute Hosts Reception for New Video Installation at the United Nations

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Archival Access at Charles University Brings Testimonies to Czech Republic

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Charles University in Prague has become the fourth European institution, and the first in the Czech Republic, with access to the Institute\'s archive of testimony. English press release | Czech press release

Institute Helps Prepare USC Students for Field Research in Cambodia

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Steven Spielberg Receives Anti-Defamation League’s Highest Award

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Tolerance and Holocaust Education Reaches Thousands in Ukraine through Nationwide Training Program

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Three thousand two hundred teachers throughout the 24 regions of Ukraine and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea have been trained and equipped with a new tolerance education resource: Encountering Memory, a multimedia kit for teachers to support the educational use of Spell Your Name, director Sergey Bukovsky’s documentary film about the Holocaust in Ukraine. (Ukrainian)

Connecting educators through the Teacher Innovation Network

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:00:00 -0800

USC Shoah Foundation Institute Receives Grant from Jim Joseph Foundation to Support Increased Access and Use of Visual History Archive

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:44:00 -0800

The Jim Joseph Foundation’s grant will permit the Institute to host the 2010 International Digital Access Outreach and Research Conference. Currently, more than 20 institutions on three continents have access to the entire archive. This will be the first gathering of colleagues from these institutions.

Central European University in Budapest Offers Workshop on Using Testimonies in Teaching

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Curriculum Resource Center (CRC) at the Central European University, Hungary is hosting academics for one week, offering workshops on course design and teaching methodologies. One such upcoming workshop, on the theme of “New Sources and Methodologies for Jewish Studies,” will encourage participants to work with the VHA. (Hungarian)

Teacher Training Program Launches in Croatia

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0800

PRESERVING RWANDAN GENOCIDE SURVIVORS' MEMORIES

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Genocide Survivor Testimony in Documentary Film: Its Afterlife and Its Legacy

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Searchable memories

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0800

“The historical importance of these testimonies is inestimable,” said Stephen Smith, Institute Executive Director, “but it’s the ability to search the archive, to identify testimony that addresses a particular theme or topic, which makes the archive useful to educators, students, and scholars. If the archive did not have this feature, its full potential as an educational resource could never be realized.”

Institute Welcomes New Executive Director, Stephen Smith

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0800

After an extensive worldwide search, Howard Gillman, Dean of the USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, announced this week the appointment of a new leadership team for the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education. Stephen Smith will be the new executive director, and Kim Simon will the new managing director for the Institute.

Young Artists and Writers Respond to Testimony

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0800

USC Faculty Stipends Available

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Institute announces a program of stipends for USC faculty.

Witnesses of the Shoah: Testimony Reaches Students in Germany

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:02:00 -0800

Secondary school students throughout Germany will be able to view Holocaust eyewitness testimony through Witnesses of the Shoah, a new educational outreach program launched by Institute partner, Freie Universität Berlin’s Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS).

Looking at History: Berlin Workshop Focuses on Holocaust Testimony in European Education

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:53:00 -0800

For the first time, the Institute’s international partners came together for “Looking at History: Incorporating Video Testimony across the Curriculum,” an intensive workshop at Freie Universität Berlin on the educational use of video testimony in Europe.

Internship Brings Cambodian Colleagues to the Institute

Fri, 29 May 2009 14:06:00 -0800

This spring, three staff members from the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) visited the Institute to participate in a three-month internship program to support DC-Cam’s ongoing effort to collect testimony from survivors of the genocide perpetrated in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge regime, which claimed as many as two million lives.

Survivors’ Testimonies at the Illinois Holocaust Museum

Fri, 29 May 2009 13:53:00 -0800

On April 19, the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center celebrated its grand opening in Skokie, Illinois. A project of the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois, the new museum is the largest and most advanced center in the Midwest dedicated to teaching the history and universal lessons of the Holocaust.

"Witnesses of the Shoah": more than 50,000 Holocaust eyewitness testimonies available for education in schools

Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The translation of the Visual History Archive interface will facilitate the use of Holocaust eyewitness testimony as a foundation for education, scholarship, and research in Germany. (English | German)

Institute’s Archive of Testimonies Now Accessible at Central-European University

Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Central European University is the first site in Central Eastern Europe to have direct access to the visual archive. Institute also to launch International Visual History Program in Hungary.
(English | Hungarian)

Living Histories

Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 -0800

As part of the activities recognizing the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s 15th year, the Institute has released Living Histories: Seven Voices from the Holocaust, a multimedia educational resource geared toward high school students and educators in the United States.

The Power of the Testimonies: One Scholar’s Journey

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:44:00 -0800

Historian Mikhail Tyaglyy recently traveled from Ukraine to Los Angeles in order to continue a journey he started nearly fifteen years ago as an interviewer for the Shoah Foundation Institute.

Spell Your Name screening held at USC Norris Cinema Theater

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Sunday, February 22, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute presented a screening of its most recent documentary, Spell Your Name, followed by a discussion panel.

Steven Spielberg and USC Shoah Foundation Institute Honored Legendary Actor and Humanitarian Kirk Douglas

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Steven Spielberg, Honorary Chair of the Shoah Foundation, presented the Ambassadors for Humanity Award to legendary actor and humanitarian Kirk Douglas. Kirk Douglas was honored for his commitment and support of the organization at an evening hosted by Billy Crystal on October 22, 2008.

Visiting scholars share their experiences using the Visual History Archive

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0800

See video of their presentations and interviews.

Erna and Andrew Viterbi’s Gift to USC Shoah Foundation Institute Heralds New Era of Online Educational Outreach

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Viterbi Family Foundation of the Jewish Community Foundation has made a $2 million gift to the USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences’ Shoah Foundation Institute to endow the Institute’s website. This gift will permit the Institute to deliver state-of-the-art, online resources that represent the needs of educators and students around the world.

Corrie ten Boom Scholar Welcomed to USC Campus

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Jacek Leociak, PhD, Historian of Literature, Assistant Professor in the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN), and Director of IBL PAN post-graduate studies, has devoted his life to communicating the importance of understanding, respecting, and appreciating the diversity derived from collaboration among individuals of numerous cultural and spiritual backgrounds. His presentation at the USC Institute for Genetic Medicine Art Gallery underscored these themes.

HOLOCAUST: The Events and Their Impact on Real People Wins Teachers' Choice Award

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0800

HOLOCAUST: The Events and Their Impact on Real People, a book for students published by DK publishing in association with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, has been selected as a 2009 Teachers\' Choice Award winner in the Children\'s Books category.

USC Shoah Foundation Institute Begins Massive, State of the Art Preservation Effort to Save One of World’s Largest Video Archive

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The preservation of one of the largest digital video archives in the world got underway this fall at the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, where staff began converting more than 100,000 hours of videotaped Holocaust testimonials to a new digital format.

National Training for Educators in Ukraine

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Hundreds of teachers and thousands of students are introduced to Encountering Memory
English | Українська

Kim Simon Named Interim Executive Director

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Kim has been chiefly responsible for the Institute\'s international agenda and has been with the organization, in many capacities, since its inception. She brings to this assignment knowledge of the full range of Institute activities and a commitment to its mission. She is the ideal person to lead the organization through this transition, and she is perfectly suited to carry out the strategic plan that we have charted.

Das Vermächtnis (The Legacy)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0800

On May 11, government officials, educators, historians, teachers, and students attended an event recognizing the release of Das Vermächtnis (The Legacy), a Holocaust education resource developed by erinnern.at. The Legacy is the first resource for teachers in Austria that uses testimony from the Institute’s Visual History Archive (view German-language news coverage of the launch event).

Institute Adopts New Strategic Plan

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute has adopted a new strategic plan that aims to increase the educational and scholarly significance of the video testimonies in its Visual History Archive. The plan focuses on several key areas that are vital to the success of the Institute\'s mission: scholarship and research, education, access to the archive, new content, and preservation of current content.

Telling an Unfinished Story

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0800

During a forum hosted by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, Los Angeles teachers compare a Holocaust survivor’s diary to his testimony a half-century later.

International Conference on Tolerance

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Attend Religious Tolerance and Intolerance from the Inquisition to the Present on April 3-4 at USC
view press release

Screening of Behind This Convent, a Documentary Film about the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

On March 25, the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and the USC Shoah Foundation Institute will host a screening of Behind This Convent, a documentary film directed by Gilbert Ndahayo that details the tragedy that befell his village during the hundred-day Rwandan Tutsi Genocide of 1994 that claimed as many as one million lives.

USC Shoah Foundation Institute and IBUKA to Collect Testimonies of Survivors of the Rwandan Tutsi Genocide

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education and IBUKA, the umbrella organization representing survivors of the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide, have agreed to collaborate on a project to record the testimonies of survivors of the genocide in Rwanda that claimed as many as one million lives.

USC Shoah Foundation Institute announces stipends for USC faculty

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education announces a program of summer stipends to assist members of the faculty in integrating the Institute’s interviews into existing courses or to assist in the creation of new courses.

Recollections Wins BAFTA Award

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Recollections: Eyewitnesses Remember the Holocaust, a groundbreaking DVD-ROM, won a prestigious BAFTA award at the Academy’s Children’s Awards held on Sunday 25th November. The interactive resource received the accolade as the best in the Learning Secondary category at the awards, which celebrates the cream of children’s film and television.

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Makes USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Holocaust Survivor and Witness Testimonies Available

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800

The world’s largest collection of visual Holocaust survivor and witness testimonies is now available to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum visitors. The testimonies are accessible through computer terminals in the Museum’s Library and Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors.

Kyiv Training Seminar Marks International Day of Tolerance

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800

On the occasion of the International Day of Tolerance—an annual day of observance initiated by UNESCO in 1996 to generate public awareness of the dangers of intolerance—a two-day seminar took place on November 15 and 16 at the House of Teachers in Kyiv to train Ukrainian teachers of social sciences and humanities on the use of a new multimedia teacher’s guide titled Encountering Memory. View Ukranian Text.

Echoes and Reflections Holocaust Curriculum Recognized by Peers with National Media Award

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Echoes and Reflections, a groundbreaking multimedia curriculum on the Holocaust, has been honored for its use of visual history testimony and its educational website by the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) with its 2007 National Multicultural Media Award.

Redesigned Shoah Foundation Institute Website Goes Online

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Today the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education launched its redesigned website at www.college.usc.edu/vhi. The Institute’s mission is to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry—and the suffering they cause—through the educational use of the Institute’s visual history testimonies.

Corrie ten Boom Research Awards Offer Visiting Scholars an Opportunity to Conduct Research at the Institute

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0800

The University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education announces the availability of the Corrie ten Boom Research Award. Named for the Dutch rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust and funded by the Ahmanson Community Trust, these research awards are designed to facilitate research in the video archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.

FAU and LEAH Partner to Give Florida Community Access to USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Archive

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Florida Atlantic University students, faculty, staff, as well as the general community, will have access to video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses from around the world when the University provides access to the University of Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation Institute\'s Visual History Archive.

Renci Extends Visual History Archive to Duke, NC State Campuses

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0800

The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) is expanding access to the world’s largest video history archive to students, faculty and staff at Duke University and North Carolina State University.

Holocaust: The Events and Their Impact on Real People

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0800

In association with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, DK Publishing is honored to publish HOLOCAUST: The Events and Their Impact on Real People, a moving and powerful book for families about one of the world’s most profound tragedies.

Monash University partners with the Institute to Become the First Australian University to Launch Largest Visual History Archive

Thu, 17 May 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Monash University today, announced the Australasian launch of the largest visual history archive in the world.

USC Shoah Foundation Institute Honors Wallis Annenberg with the Ambassadors for Humanity Award

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Steven Spielberg, Founder of the Shoah Foundation, presents the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Ambassadors for Humanity Award to Wallis Annenberg. Longtime supporter of the organization Jerry Seinfeld will serve as host. The event will also feature a performance by Don Henley.

Testimony to Tolerance Initiative Launched In Little Rock, Arkansas

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Institute Executive Director Interviewed on University of Southern California’s Television Show CU@USC

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Douglas Greenberg, Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, discusses the past, present, and future of the Institute. Topics include how the Institute began, how its mission has evolved over time, and new directions that the Institute may take in the near future.

University of Minnesota Libraries Give Community Access to Archive of Holocaust survivor and witness testimonies

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800

University of Minnesota students, faculty, and staff—as well as the general public—will have access to the world’s largest archive of visual histories of the Holocaust this month, when the University Libraries launch a two-terabyte digital media cache of testimonies from the University of Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive.

Spell Your Name, produced by Steven Spielberg and Victor Pinchuk, to begin theatrical release in Kyiv

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800

The film, Spell Your Name, which premiered in Kyiv, Ukraine in October 2006, will now be seen by wider audiences across Ukraine. Spell Your Name, a collaboration between the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, is a feature-length documentary about the Holocaust in Ukraine.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2007

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800

On Monday, January 29, the United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI) will hold a special observance for the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Among the events planned around the Day of Commemoration is a special screening for the United Nations community of two of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute\'s documentaries, Volevo solo vivere (I Only Wanted to Live), and Nazvy svoie im\'ia (Spell Your Name).