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Jewish Club of 1933 Honors Wolf Gruner, Director of Center for Advanced Genocide Research

The Benefactors of the Jewish Club of 1933, Inc., have bestowed Professor Wolf Gruner their Legacy Award for his work with the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research.Gruner is the…
Friday, November 21, 2014

Inside IWitness: "The Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda"

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 the…
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Director of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum to Speak at UCLA about Preserving Auschwitz

Dr. Piotr M.A. Cywiński, director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland, will host a reception and presentation at UCLA on Thursday about how the museum functions today and what is needed…
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Kori Street, Director of Education, Speaks to High School Students About IWitness and Participation

USC Shoah Foundation Director of Education Kori Street spoke to students at Magnolia Science Academy in Carson, Calif., on Monday about IWitness, testimony, and how they can use their own voices to…
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

70 Days of Testimony: Leading up to the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz

On Jan. 27, 2015, the world will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp. To honor the occasion, for the next 70…
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Watch “Through Testimony” International Conference Panels and Keynote

USC Shoah Foundation’s 2014 Through Testimony international conference “Memory, Media and Technology: Exploring the Trajectories of Schindler’s List” is in full swing in Los Angeles. Those unable to…
Monday, November 17, 2014

Inside IWitness: "Information Quest: Ruth Brand"

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 Ruth Brand…
Friday, November 14, 2014

USC Families Discover Visual History Archive at Trojan Family Weekend

As parents and families of USC students descended on campus on Thursday for the first day of Trojan Family Weekend, many were already making sure to stop by Doheny Memorial Library to learn about USC…
Thursday, November 13, 2014

Berzsenyi High School Hosts Hungary’s 14th ITeach Seminar of 2014

Local educators hosted an ITeach seminar about teaching with testimony at Berzsenyi High School, a USC Shoah Foundation partner school in Hungary, on Saturday, Nov. 8. With this latest seminar,…
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Student Voices Short Film Contest Revamped for 2015

The 4th annual Student Voices Short Film Contest will open for submissions on Jan. 12, 2015, featuring key changes intended to increase awareness for the contest and help participants complete their…
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

USC Shoah Foundation Partner School Opens New Holocaust Resource Center

Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County, USC Shoah Foundation’s first Jewish Partner School, held a dedication ceremony…
Monday, November 10, 2014

Inside IWitness: "Arrival at Auschwitz: Images and Individual Experiences"

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 Arrival at…
Friday, November 7, 2014

Twenty-Five Teachers Chosen to Participate in ‘Auschwitz: The Past is Present’ Professional Development Program

Twenty-five teachers from around the world have been chosen by USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education and Discovery Education to participate in a unique professional…
Thursday, November 6, 2014

Pilot Underway for First Elementary School IWitness Activity

IWitness is typically used in middle- and high school classrooms and college courses, but that may change following this week’s pilot testing of a new activity intended for students as young as fifth…
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Work Hard to Contribute to the World

For some people, hope is nothing but an airy dream. But for my parents, Elisabeth and George, it is a hard-won reality that they have lived every day of their lives. Their commitment is anything but…
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Ecole Normale Superieure of Lyon in France is 51st Institution to Gain Full Access to Visual History Archive

USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education is pleased to announce that Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS), a university in Lyon, France, is the 51st institution, and the first…
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

First Model UN at USC Uses Rwandan Tutsi Genocide Testimony

(L-R: Jackie Kim, Karan Agarwal, Jazz Advaney, Michael Lim)University of Southern California students hosted the first-ever Trojan Model UN this…
Monday, November 3, 2014

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