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“Where Is My Home” USC student Cecilia De Jesus takes top honor at Student Voices Film Contest
On Thursday evening, March 28, 2013, USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education held its third annual Student Voices Film Contest awards ceremony and screening. The event…
Friday, March 29, 2013
At distinguished Hungarian University, USC Shoah Foundation introduces concept of “learning moments” found through survivor testimony
On March 19, USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education gave a presentation about education based on Holocaust survivor testimony to more than 100 students, faculty,…
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
“I saw myself finished”: One Holocaust survivor’s first encounter with discrimination
Rachel Hanan was only a little girl at the time, but she will never forget the day in 1938 when newspapers in her home country of Italy published an ugly caricature intended to represent a Jewish…
Friday, March 22, 2013
Student-films bring survivors' voices back to Czech borderlands A high school teacher's project for his class draws regional attention to Holocaust history, current ethnic and social issues
After signing the Munich Agreement in September 1938 and under the pretext of protecting the interests of ethnic Germans who agitated for Nazi rule, Hitler annexed the Czechoslovakian borderlands…
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Dario Gabbai and the Auschwitz Sonderkommando
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…
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
A USC Soá Alapítvány oktatási munkájának és a videó-interjúkkal való oktatás módszertanának bemutatása a Szegedi Egyetem Juhász Gyula Pedagógusképző Karán
2013. március 19-én a Szegedi Tudományegyetem JGYPK Alkalmazott Társadalomismereti Tanszéke, a Belvedere Meridionale (történelem és társadalomtudományok) szerkesztősége és Oral History munkacsoportja…
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
IWitness at statewide “Day of Learning” for California students and teachers
USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education was one of a select few organizations invited by the Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JFCS) Holocaust Center to…
Monday, March 18, 2013
Through internships, USC students take part in the Institute's mission
In classrooms, university lecture halls, museums, and other settings that combine to reach millions, the Holocaust survivor and eyewitness testimonies in the Visual History Archive of USC Shoah…
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The Anschluss and “The Legacy” of Austria’s Jewish survivors
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. The following month, a vote…
Monday, March 11, 2013
“Re-membering” the Khmer Rouge: Exploring Cambodian American memory work
USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education co-sponsored a March 7 lecture by Dr. Cathy J. Schlund-Vials on the memory work of Cambodian Americans whose films, memoirs…
Friday, March 8, 2013
How will you spend your summer vacation? USC students invited to join us in Rwanda!
The USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education is now accepting applications for a summer course that will allow USC students to study post-genocide conflict resolution in…
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Six Million Coins™ to aid Holocaust survivors Institute pledges support for fundraising initiative
USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education will support the Six Million Coins™ fundraising initiative, launched by Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries and…
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Visiting scholar goes “against the grain” Rutgers Professor Dr. Jeffrey Shandler lectures at the Institute
What can the Institute’s Visual History Archive teach us about other mediations of the Holocaust: how survivors tell their stories, how life performance and other media shape their narratives, or…
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
"Teaching about the Holocaust" United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Forum on Holocaust Education comes to the USC Shoah Foundation
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), in cooperation with USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education, hosted the 12th Southern California Teacher Forum on…
Monday, March 4, 2013
"Multiple intelligences" theorist Howard Gardner on digital media, learning, and empathy
On February 11, Dr. Howard Gardner, best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, engaged in a public conversation on the art science of 21st-century education with Dr. Mary Helen Immordino…
Thursday, February 28, 2013
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION FOUNDER STEVEN SPIELBERG ANNOUNCES IWITNESS VIDEO CHALLENGE
Contest challenges secondary school students to honor the legacy of Schindler’s List by engaging in community service inspired by survivors’ testimonies and showcasing their action in an…
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Video series for teachers now online
Three professional-development videos for secondary-school teachers are now available on the Institute’s website. The videos, which average 25 minutes in length, delve into the theory and practice of…
Monday, February 25, 2013
70 Year Anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad
On February 2, we commemorated the 70th anniversary of the decisive WWII Battle of Stalingrad. That battle changed the course of the war, leading to the final victory over Nazi Germany. As many as…
Monday, February 11, 2013
Les hologrammes, une révolution technologique au service du devoir de mémoire
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Training teachers in the Czech Republic
The weekend before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, experts from Yad Vashem, the Department for Education and Culture of the Jewish Museum in Prague, the Terezin Memorial, and USC Shoah…
Friday, February 1, 2013
Czech Republic: Survivor stories bring scholars and educators to Prague
Three years after Charles University’s Malach Center gained access to the Visual History Archive, its importance as a destination for testimony-based research, educational activities and…
Thursday, January 31, 2013
USC Shoah Foundation presents stories of rescue at UNESCO’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day program
“Rescue: Preserving Humanity during the Holocaust,” a new exhibit curated by USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education, is on display in Paris at the headquarters of the…
Monday, January 28, 2013
The landscape of survivors' stories: Google Maps enhances testimony search engine
The Institute has updated its Visual History Archive (VHA), which now integrates Google Maps for a new way to search the testimonies."Places Search" allows users to enter a geographic…
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Anne Frank’s stepsister speaks at USC
Eva Schloss, stepsister and childhood friend of Anne Frank, spoke to a capacity-crowd at USC on January 22, in an event sponsored by Chabad @ USC and USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for…
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
L'USC Shoah Foundation a présente des récits de sauvetage à l’occasion de la Journée internationale du souvenir de l’Holocauste à l’UNESCO (Paris)
L'USC Shoah Foundation – Institut pour l’histoire visuelle et l’éducation, a organisé une exposition qui a été présentée au siège de l’UNESCO, à Paris. Cette exposition fut l’un des volets de la…
Friday, January 18, 2013
Association of Holocaust Organizations convenes at the Institute: Winter seminar focuses on future of survivor testimony
Representatives from more than 30 Holocaust museums and centers in the United States and Canada came to Los Angeles this week for the 2013 Association of Holocaust Organizations (AHO) Winter Seminar,…
Tuesday, January 8, 2013