News By Year and Month
Shoah Foundation Exhibit and New York Times Article Focus on Holocaust “Killing Sites”
A USC Shoah Foundation exhibit and recent New York Times article remember that millions of people were murdered not in concentration camps, but in public sites all over Eastern Europe.The article,…
Friday, January 31, 2014
Eötvos Loránd University Presents Visual History Archive to Students and Educators
Students and educators have multiple opportunities to learn about USC Shoah Foundation and explore the Visual History Archive at Eötvos Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest over the next few weeks…
Thursday, January 30, 2014
UNESCO Exhibit “Journeys Through the Holocaust” Viewable on USC Shoah Foundation Website
You don’t have to be in Paris to view UNESCO’s “Journeys Through the Holocaust” exhibit, curated by USC Shoah Foundation associate director of education – evaluation and scholarship Dr. Amy M Carnes…
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
USC Shoah Foundation Seeking Candidates for Teaching and Research Fellowships
Scholars interested in developing college courses or conducting research using USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive are invited to apply for 2014-15 fellowships at USC Shoah Foundation…
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Call for Proposals: Teaching Fellow Program, Summer 2014
USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education invites proposals for its 2014 Teaching Fellows program that will provide summer support for faculty at the Institute&rsquo…
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Call for Proposals: Student Research Fellow Program 2014-15
USC Shoah Foundation -- The Institute for Visual History and Education invites proposals for its 2014 Student Research Fellow program. The fellowship provides support during summer 2014 or one…
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
The Fine Line of Genocide History
The recent New York Times article, The Shroud over Rwanda's Nightmare (January 9, 2014), had me perplexed at first. Michael Dobbs' enquiry centers on the character of Jean-Pierre, the informant who…
Monday, January 27, 2014
A szembenézés bátorsága
A Soá Alapítvány tananyagszerzői a videóinterjúkkal való oktatási tapasztalataikatosztják meg a Vasárnapi Hírekben: http://www.vasarnapihirek.hu/fokusz/a_szembenezes_batorsaga
Monday, January 27, 2014
Steven Spielberg Says “Justice Lives in Memory” in UN Keynote Address
Steven Spielberg, founder of the USC Shoah Foundation, said it is vital for genocides to be remembered through eyewitness testimony in his keynote address this morning at the United Nations’…
Monday, January 27, 2014
New Online Exhibit Brings the “City That Became Auschwitz” to Life
Though it’s most known as the city that was home to the Auschwitz concentration camp, the Polish city of Oświęcim has a history of its own as a small industrial center with a thriving Jewish…
Friday, January 24, 2014
Journeys Through the Holocaust?
The word journey comes to the English language from the Old French jornee, meaning a day, or, by extension, a day’s labor or travel. This word, which we normally associate with something…
Friday, January 24, 2014
Schindler’s List Screenings in Midwest to Benefit USC Shoah Foundation
Movie theatres throughout the Midwest will screen Schindler’s List Jan. 24-30, with proceeds benefiting USC Shoah Foundation.The Parkway Theatre in Minneapolis will play the film Jan. 24-30,…
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Former Institute Scholar Jeffrey Shandler Publishes Multimedia Article “Survivors on Schindler’s List”
Jeffrey Shandler, professor at Rutgers University and the 2012-13 USC Shoah Foundation Institute Scholar, published a multimedia article that examines the impact of Schindler’s List on Holocaust…
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Problems Without Passports Returning to Rwanda Summer 2014
University of Southern California students will study post-genocide reconstruction this summer on the second annual Problems Without Passports trip to Rwanda…
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Andi Gitow, Executive Producer at United Nations News and Media Division, Begins Four-Month Sabbatical as Visiting Scholar
Andi Gitow, Executive Producer in the UN’s News and Media Division, will spend the next four months on sabbatical at the USC Shoah Foundation.Gitow is a two-time Emmy award-winning journalist and…
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Michael Ignatieff Lecture “In Search of a Global Ethic: Lessons from the Big Cities” on Tuesday
Michael Ignatieff, the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs Centennial Chair, will spend Jan. 16-21 at the University of Southern California. On the last day of his visit, Ignatieff…
Thursday, January 16, 2014
IWitness Reaches 20,000 Users, and Other New Institute Statistics
USC Shoah Foundation added a new country and language to the Visual History Archive and surpassed 20,000 IWitness users in the last quarter of 2013.With the addition of the Shoah Foundation’s…
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Two Polish-Language Lessons Available Online for Teachers
USC Shoah Foundation has published two Polish-language lessons about the Holocaust, complete with clips from the Visual History Archive, on the USC Shoah Foundation website. They are available for…
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
One Testimony, Two Continents, Three Friends
The email wasn’t so different from many others I’ve received since I started working at the USC Shoah Foundation last summer.
A woman named Olga in Germany was moved by watching survivor Paula…
Monday, January 13, 2014
USC Shoah Foundation Testimony Exhibit On Display at UNESCO Headquarters
A five-part exhibit of testimony from USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive will be on display at world UNESCO headquarters in Paris to commemorate International Day of Commemoration in…
Monday, January 13, 2014
Holocaust Geographies Collaborative Explores Visual History Archive
Four researchers who are part of the Holocaust Geographies Collective explored the Visual History Archive for the first time and were inspired by what they found.The Holocaust Geographies…
Friday, January 10, 2014
Indexing Training Session for New Holocaust Collection and Aegis Trust Rwanda Begins Jan. 21
USC Shoah Foundation’s research department will host seven new Holocaust indexers and three Aegis Trust Rwanda staff members this month for a training session on indexing Holocaust and Rwandan…
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Steven Spielberg to Speak at UN for International Holocaust Memorial Day
USC Shoah Foundation founder Steven Spielberg will deliver the keynote address at the UN’s Holocaust Memorial Ceremony on the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the…
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
IWitness Goes Live on iPads and Tablets
USC Shoah Foundation is excited to announce the launch of the tablet-compatible version of its award-winning educational website IWitness.Educators and students can search, watch and engage with the…
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Rwandan Genocide Commemoration, Kwibuka20, Begins Today
Today marks the beginning of Kwibuka20, Rwanda’s three-month commemoration of the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide.Eight hundred thousand ethnic Tutsis and thousands of Hutus were murdered over a…
Monday, January 6, 2014