News By Year and Month

Stephen Smith Embarks on Book Tour for "Testimony"

Just in time for the holiday season, USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith will travel to four cities around…
Friday, October 31, 2014

Inside IWitness: “Auschwitz – Inner Strength, Outward Resistance”

Inside IWitness is an ongoing series that will profile each activity in IWitness, along with a clip featured in the activity and a teacher who uses IWitness in his or her classroom.Through an…
Thursday, October 30, 2014

10 Unique Facts about the Visual History Archive

In honor of National Archives Month, here are 10 unique facts about USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive. The Visual History Archive includes testimony from survivors and witnesses to…
Thursday, October 30, 2014

Chat with USC Shoah Foundation Archivists for #AskAnArchivist

Have you ever wanted to know what it takes to become an archivist? Or what the archivists at the USC Shoah Foundation are working on today? Or have an archiving problem of your own you’d like some…
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews Celebrates Grand Opening in Warsaw

Six months after beginning its educational and cultural programming, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews celebrated the opening of its core exhibition and the official grand opening of the…
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Harry Reicher

I have only known Harry Reicher for three months, and yet today I say goodbye to him as an old friend. I don’t know why, but I wasn’t expecting to meet a devout and practicing Jew the day he first…
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Southern California Teachers Attend Holocaust Education Institute Workshop

USC Shoah Foundation and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) hosted the first session of this year’s Holocaust Education Institute Friday, Oct…
Monday, October 27, 2014

Educators Learn About Testimony at Workshops in Czech Republic and United States

USC Shoah Foundation and its partner in the Czech Republic, PANT, have been busy leading workshops and seminars about the Visual History Archive and IWitness for educators.In the month of October,…
Friday, October 24, 2014

Memory Lived

Pinchas Gutter stepped onto the bimah at the Kiever Synagogue in Toronto, Canada, where for the 27th consecutive time he was about to lead the Yom Kippur services. He stood tall in his white…
Friday, October 24, 2014

Inside IWitness: “Auschwitz – Art in the Face of Death”

Inside IWitness is an ongoing series that will profile each activity in IWitness, along with a clip featured in the activity and a teacher who uses IWitness in his or her classroom.The Auschwitz –…
Thursday, October 23, 2014

USC Shoah Foundation to Help Preserve 60 Million Gacaca Court Documents

USC Shoah Foundation, Aegis Trust Rwanda and the Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD) conducted a feasibility study this month to determine how 12,000 Gacaca Court case files – 60…
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

In Phase 2 of IWitness in Rwanda, Students Motivated to Make a Difference

The latest evaluation of IWitness in Rwanda shows that students’ interest in civic engagement and making a difference after using IWitness has increased significantly since Phase 1 of the program…
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Submit Proposals for 2015-16 Fellowship at Center for Advanced Genocide Research

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites applications from senior scholars for its 2015-2016 Center Research Fellow. The fellowship provides $30,000 support and will be…
Monday, October 20, 2014

"Watchers of the Sky" Reveals Story of Raphael Lemkin, Man Who Coined “Genocide”

“Genocide” is such a widely recognized term today that it’s hard to believe that as recently as 1943, it didn’t even exist. The fact that it not only exists but is taken for granted as the definition…
Friday, October 17, 2014

A Beloved Father’s Presence Preserved for Generations to Come

I adored my father and admired him greatly. Harold Eisenberg was a good man in every sense of the word. He spoke about his life in Opatow, Poland before World War II and even his experience during…
Friday, October 17, 2014

Inside IWitness: “Growing Up Behind the Barbed Wire of Auschwitz”

Inside IWitness is an ongoing series that will profile each activity in IWitness, along with a clip featured in the activity and a teacher who uses IWitness in his or her classroom.The new activity…
Thursday, October 16, 2014

Lessons and IWitness Activities for National Bullying Prevention Month

USC Shoah Foundation’s educational resources can help educators observe National Bullying Prevention Month in October by teaching students about acceptance, resilience and other relevant topics…
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Lesson by “Teaching with Testimony” Graduate Published Online

For the first time, USC Shoah Foundation has published a lesson that was created by a teacher in the Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century professional development program.Oscar – The Award was…
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

As Seen Through These Eyes Screening is First USC Shoah Foundation Event of the Year

USC Shoah Foundation’s academic year programming kicks off next Monday with a screening of the documentary As Seen Through These Eyes, which tells the stories of Holocaust survivors who made art…
Monday, October 13, 2014

Bringing Stories to Daylight

With nearly 52,000 interviews from survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides, the archive of audio-visual testimony assembled and maintained by USC Shoah Foundation is so abundant it would take…
Monday, October 13, 2014

Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Hosts IWitness Educator Workshop

Teachers from across the Netherlands participated in an IWitness training session Oct. 4, held as part of a new partnership between USC Shoah Foundation and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and…
Friday, October 10, 2014

Inside Witness: "Writing in Exile"

Inside IWitness is an ongoing series that will profile each activity in IWitness, along with a clip featured in the activity and a teacher who uses IWitness in his or her classroom.In the first-ever…
Thursday, October 9, 2014

Tea, family and time travel – An unforgettable trip to China

I recently returned to China to record audio-visual testimonies from survivors of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre. In February 2014, the Institute incorporated 12 Nanjing testimonies into its Visual…
Thursday, October 9, 2014

Eighteen New Testimonies Recorded for Nanjing Massacre Collection

USC Shoah Foundation’s Nanjing Massacre testimony collection more than doubled in size last week when USC Shoah Foundation and Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall conducted 18 new interviews with Nanjing…
Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Margee and Douglas Greenberg Gift to USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research Will Endow First Academic Research Fellowship

Margee and Douglas Greenberg have provided a gift to fund an endowed fellowship program at USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research, the newly announced research and scholarship…
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Chief Technology Officer Sam Gustman To Speak about Cloud Archives at University of Michigan

USC Shoah Foundation chief technology officer Sam Gustman will return to his alma mater, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to give a presentation about the Visual History Archive and the…
Monday, October 6, 2014

2014 International Conference Roundtable Spotlight: Digital Pedagogy, Education, Human Rights and Violence Studies

A different panel or roundtable at USC Shoah Foundation’s upcoming international conference, Memory, Media and Technology: Exploring the Trajectories of Schindler’s List, will be profiled each week…
Friday, October 3, 2014

Inside IWitness: "Voyage of the St. Louis: From Hope to Despair"

Inside IWitness is an ongoing series that will profile each activity in IWitness, along with a clip featured in the activity and a teacher who uses IWitness in his or her classroom.Students learn…
Thursday, October 2, 2014

IWitness Video Editor Upgraded with New Languages and Features

As IWitness’s community of users continues to grow, its technical specifications are upgraded to meet their needs. Students and teachers will find new features in IWitness’s video editor that will…
Wednesday, October 1, 2014