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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