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Steven Spielberg Receives Anti-Defamation League’s Highest Award

The Anti-Defamation League has honored Stephen Spielberg with its America’s Democratic Legacy Award for his work as a filmmaker and humanitarian. Steven Spielberg, in his acceptance speech,…
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Тисячі педагогів охоплено у Всеукраїнській тренінговій програмі з вивчення Голокосту і виховання толерантності

Три тисячі двісті вчителів з 24 областей України та Автономної республіки Крим взяли участь у навчальних семінарах та отримали новий посібник з виховання толерантності «Назустріч пам’яті». Цей…
Friday, October 16, 2009

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

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: …
Friday, October 16, 2009

Connecting Educators Through the Teacher Innovation Network

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute has launched the Teacher Innovation Network, an initiative to build a nationwide community of middle and high school teachers who are committed to the using the…
Friday, October 9, 2009

Pályázati felhívás multimédiás tananyagok kidolgozására a USC Soá Intézet Vizuális Történelmi Archívumában található magyar vonatkozású video-interjúk felhasználásával

A Holokauszt Emlékközpont, az Oktatáskutató és Fejlesztő Intézet, valamint a USC Soá Intézet magyarországi képviselete pályázatot ír ki holokauszt-oktatási és tolerancia-oktatási multimédiás…
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Felhívás Egyetemi Oktatók és Kutatók Számára

A Közép-európai Egyetemen (CEU) működő Curriculum Resource Center (Tananyagfejlesztési Központ)- CRC http://web.ceu.hu/crc/ - 2010 februárjában egyhetes CRC programot szervez oktatóknak és kutatóknak…
Monday, September 21, 2009

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

Institute to Host International ConferenceThe USC Shoah Foundation Institute is the recipient of a significant grant from the Jim Joseph Foundation to support a worldwide initiative to broaden access…
Monday, September 21, 2009

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

The Institute’s Visual History Archive (VHA) has been available at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest since April 2009. As the new academic year begins, CEU is organizing a…
Friday, September 18, 2009

Teacher Training Program Launches in Croatia

SEPTEMBER 2009—SPLIT, CROATIA—The Croatian Education and Teacher Training Agency launched a national teacher training program on the use of testimony-based classroom resources on 2 September, in…
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Preserving the Memories of the Survivors of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

ACE Charitable Foundation funds pilot project to collect testimony from survivors living in U.S. SEPTEMBER 11, 2009—LOS ANGELES—The USC Shoah Foundation Institute has received a generous grant…
Friday, September 11, 2009

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

Read the college's coverage of the event.If you missed this panel discussion at USC, you can watch a video of the event here.The USC Shoah Foundation Institute has worked with documentary…
Thursday, September 3, 2009

Searchable Memories

Indexing unlocks the archive’s educational potential“It was a very eye opening process,” said Consolée Uwamariya, of her experience indexing the first three testimonies of survivors of the Rwandan…
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Institute Welcomes New Executive Director, Stephen Smith

After an extensive worldwide search, Howard Gillman, Dean of the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, announced this week the appointment of a new leadership team for the USC Shoah Foundation…
Monday, August 17, 2009

Young Artists and Writers Respond to Testimony

In Spring 2009, more than 5,000 middle school and high school students participated in the 10th Annual Holocaust Art and Writing Contest at Chapman University in Orange, California.Presented by the…
Friday, August 7, 2009

USC Faculty Stipends Available

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education announces a program of stipends for USC faculty. Three stipends will be awarded in the amount of $5,000 each to assist USC…
Friday, July 10, 2009

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

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…
Monday, June 22, 2009

Witnesses of the Shoah: Testimony Reaches Students in Germany

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,…
Monday, June 22, 2009

Saving Every Testimony

In the summer of 2012, after a 4-year, multimillion-dollar effort to preserve digitally the video interviews in its Visual History Archive, the USC Shoah Foundation discovered that 4,755 testimonies…
Friday, May 29, 2009

Survivors’ Testimonies at the Illinois Holocaust Museum

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…
Friday, May 29, 2009

Internship Brings Cambodian Colleagues to the Institute

This spring, three staff members from the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) visited the Institute to participate in a 3-month internship program to support DC-Cam’s ongoing effort to collect…
Friday, May 29, 2009

„Zeugen der Shoah“: über 50.000 Zeitzeugen-Interviews für die schulische Bildung

Freie Universität stellt erstmalig deutsche Version von digitalem Video-Archiv vorDie Freie Universität Berlin hat heute erstmals das multimediale Archiv-Projekt „Zeugen der Shoah. Das Visual History…
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Witnesses of the Shoah: More than 50,000 Holocaust Eyewitness Testimonies Available for Education in Schools

Freie Universtät Berlin introduces first German version of digital video archiveToday for the first time Freie Universität Berlin introduced the multimedia archive project, Witnesses of the Shoah:…
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

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

Institute Launches International Visual History Program in HungaryBUDAPEST, HUNGARY—MAY 7, 2009—Central European University (CEU) has become the second institution in Europe to offer electronic…
Friday, May 8, 2009

Magyarországon is elérhető a USC Soá Intézet Vizuális Történelmi Archívuma

A közép-kelet-európai régióban elsőként, a Közép-európai Egyetem (CEU) könyvtárában elérhető immár a Soá Intézet a Vizuális Történelemért és Oktatásért Vizuális Történelmi Archívumának (USC Shoah…
Thursday, May 7, 2009

Living Histories

USC Shoah Foundation Institute Unveils Interdisciplinary Resource for High School EducatorsLOS ANGELES, CA–May 5, 2009–As part of the activities recognizing the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s 15th…
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

The Power of the Testimonies: One Scholar’s Journey

Historian Mikhail Tyaglyy recently traveled from Ukraine to Los Angeles in order to continue a journey he started nearly 15 years ago as an interviewer for the USC Shoah Foundation Institute. Last…
Monday, March 2, 2009

Spell Your Name Screening Held at USC Norris Cinema Theater

On Sunday, February 22, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute presented a screening of its most recent documentary, Spell Your Name, followed by a discussion addressing issues of cultural stereotypes…
Monday, February 23, 2009