Thursday, December 9, 2010. Steven Spielberg, Founder of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, presented DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s highest honor, the Ambassadors for Humanity Award.

The Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest has launched a one-year long Fellowship Program in Holocaust Education for curriculum developers and teacher trainers.

The Fellowship – a unique initiative in Hungary - is a yearlong program during which participants have to develop their own project in Holocaust Education. The major milestones of the year include a one-week intensive seminar, individual and group consultations, a four-day study tour to Holocaust-related sites, and a closing conference.

A budapesti Holokauszt Emlékközpont egyéves Holokauszt-oktatási Szakértőképzési Programot indított oktatási szakértők, tanárképzésben dolgozók és tananyagírók számára.

A budapesti Holokauszt Emlékközpont egyéves Holokauszt-oktatási Szakértőképzési Programot indított oktatási szakértők, tanárképzésben dolgozók és tananyagírók számára. A programot a washingtoni Holokauszt Emlékmúzeum (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum), az International Task Force on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research nemzetközi szervezet és a Nemzeti Erőforrás Minisztériuma támogatja.

On December 9, 2010, Steven Spielberg, Founder of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, will present Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks, with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s highest honor, the Ambassadors for Humanity Award. Craig Ferguson will host, with Grammy® and Academy Award® winner Jennifer Hudson as special musical guest.

A budapesti Holokauszt Emlékközpont időszaki kiállításán videó-részletek láthatók az Intézet Vizuális Történelmi Archívumának interjúiból.

2010. október 17 – 2011. február 27.

On September 21, 1920, the Hungarian Parliament passed Law XXV, now known as the Numerus Clausus Law (a system of “closed numbers”), introduced to limit the number of Jewish students in higher education. To mark this dark period of Hungarian history, the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest has organized an exhibition commemorating the 90th anniversary of this event.

USC Shoah Foundation Institute Executive Director Stephen D. Smith is featured in a podcast interview conducted by the Holocaust Denial on Trial website, designed to empower the open-minded reader to identify and reject the lies, distortions, and misleading innuendo used by Holocaust deniers.

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute participated in “Conflict Resolution and Peace Research: Cambodia,” a summer undergraduate course offered through the Problems Without Passports program, where students conducted their own interviews with survivors of Cambodian Genocide.

For the second year in a row, Central European University is organizing a workshop on the use of the Visual History Archive in research and teaching.

In May, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute convened a workshop entitled “A New Generation of Learning: Holocaust Education and the Internet,” at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, bringing together participants engaged in Holocaust education.