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Visiting Scholars Share Their Experiences Using the Visual History Archive
Established in memory of the renowned Dutch rescuer of Jews during World War II, and made possible through generous funding by the Ahmanson Charitable Community Trust, the Corrie ten Boom awards…
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Steven Spielberg and USC Shoah Foundation Institute Honored Legendary Actor and Humanitarian Kirk Douglas
Institute Announced New Global Initiatives
LOS ANGELES, CA—OCTOBER 22, 2008—Steven Spielberg, Honorary Chair of the Shoah Foundation, presented the Ambassadors for Humanity Award to legendary…
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Erna and Andrew Viterbi’s Gift to USC Shoah Foundation Institute Heralds New Era of Online Educational Outreach
LOS ANGELES—The Viterbi Family Foundation of the Jewish Community Foundation has made a $2 million gift to the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences’ Shoah Foundation Institute to endow the…
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Corrie ten Boom Scholar Welcomed to USC Campus
Checks and balances for systemic interaction: Subjective, Objective and Symbolic Modes of Violenceby Lacey Erhlich and Sam Fassbinder, PhDAs tensions between religious groups, races, and…
Sunday, August 31, 2008
USC Shoah Foundation Institute Begins Massive, State of the Art Preservation Effort to Save One of World’s Largest Video Archive
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…
Friday, August 15, 2008
HOLOCAUST: The Events and Their Impact on Real People Wins Teachers' Choice Award
August 2008—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…
Friday, August 15, 2008
National Training for Educators in Ukraine
Nazustrich pam'iati (Spell Your Name)Encountering Memory is a multimedia guide for educators of Ukrainian students ages 14 to 18 on the use of the film, Nazvy svoie im'ia (Spell Your Name), a…
Friday, August 1, 2008
Kim Simon Named Interim Executive Director
Appointment Coincides with New Global Initiatives
Read USC College Dean Howard Gillman's message about the Institute's transition
Read Douglas Greenberg's message
Read about the Institute's…
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Das Vermächtnis (The Legacy)
VIENNA, AUSTRIA—On May 11, government officials, educators, historians, teachers, and students attended an event recognizing the release of Das Vermächtnis (The Legacy), a Holocaust education…
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Institute Adopts New Strategic Plan
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…
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Telling an Unfinished Story
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.By Pamela J. Johnson, USC College of…
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
International Conference on Tolerance
The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute and the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education are co-sponsoring a conference, Religious Tolerance and Intolerance from the…
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Screening of Behind This Convent, a Documentary Film about the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide
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…
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
USC Shoah Foundation Institute and IBUKA to Collect Testimonies of Survivors of the Rwandan Tutsi Genocide
KIGALI, RWANDA—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…
Tuesday, January 22, 2008