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Anti-Semitism: Know It. Name It. Shame It.
There is talk of a “new anti-Semitism” sweeping the globe, but all I see is the same irrational hatred aimed at the same perplexed victims, who are once again left wondering what has energized such…
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
USC Shoah Foundation Launches 2015 IWitness Video Challenge
Secondary school students have the chance to win a trip to Los Angeles by entering the second annual IWitness Video Challenge hosted by USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and…
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
It Happened Here, Right Here
By Kim Simon, Martin Šmok, and Andrea Szönyi
(Teaching with Testimony participants at the…
Monday, September 8, 2014
2014 International Conference Panel Spotlight: Oral History and Mediation
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, September 5, 2014
Testimony Featured in “The Orient in Bohemia” Exhibit at Jewish Museum in Prague
A groundbreaking new exhibit at the Jewish Museum in Prague uses testimony from the Visual History Archive to explore the little-known fates of Jewish refugees in Bohemia and Moravia during World War…
Thursday, September 4, 2014
IWitness Partners with Hold On To Your Music Foundation for New Activity
Thousands of students around the world read Lee Cohen and Mona Golabek’s The Children of Willesden Lane each year to learn about one young girl’s experience on the Kindertransport during the…
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Beyond Evil
By Ervin StaubSurvivors of genocide are deeply affected. Research has shown that people who are victimized, even to a much lesser degree than those who are targeted in genocide, tend to perceive the…
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
2014 International Conference Panel Spotlight: Social Engagements with Holocaust Remembrance in New Media
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, August 29, 2014
San Diego Unified School District Educators Attend IWitness Training
(Claudia Wiedeman leads the training in San Diego)Teachers throughout the San Diego Unified School District had the opportunity to…
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Ukraine is United
This September a new school year will begin in Ukraine and the first lesson students be taught is “Ukraine is united" and the lesson will be devoted to state integrity of Ukraine. A tough issue for…
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Hungary Hosts Third Teaching with Testimony Professional Development Program
For the third consecutive year, a new group of teachers gathered in Hungary for the Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century professional development program to learn how to create their own…
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Three Ukrainian Teacher’s Guides Now Online
(Education expert Oleksandr Voytenko at the Teaching with Testimony follow-up session in Ukraine, August 2014)Educators can now access three of USC Shoah…
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
The Last of the Unjust
Claude Lanzmann, right, and Stephen Smith during Lanzmann's visit to USC Shoah Foundation French film director and documentarian Claude Lanzmann…
Monday, August 25, 2014
Globalization of Hatred
The fast pace of globalization with all of its benefits is also accelerating the viral spread of hatred. Where once regional enmities brewed for centuries with sporadic outbursts of warfare and…
Monday, August 25, 2014
2014 International Conference Panel Spotlight: The Dynamics of Oral History of War and Genocide: The Case of Indonesia
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, August 22, 2014
IWitness Comes Out of Beta with Enhanced Functionality, New Projects and Quicker Access
After a successful test run, the educational website IWitness is coming out of beta with new functionality, additional languages, as well as a faster and easier way for educators to create accounts…
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Teachers Unite in Ukraine for Teaching with Testimony Follow-Up
After several postponements due to the political turmoil in their country, the 2012 Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century Ukrainian cohort finally came together this month for a follow-up…
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
An Examination of Antisemitism in Hungary
By Péter KrekóIn recent years, domestic and international public discourse regarding antisemitism in Hungary has been characterized by banal understatements and exaggerated overstatements at the same…
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
2014 International Conference Panel Spotlight: Early Mediations of the Holocaust
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, August 15, 2014
UCLA IPAM Students Present Results of Information Retrieval Project
(L-R: Bin Bi, Ilan Morgenstern, Lingxin Zhou, Qiaoyu Yang, Sam Gustman, Mateo Wirth, Mills Chang)After two months working with the USC Shoah…
Thursday, August 14, 2014
IWitness Regional Consultants Host Educator Workshops Around the Country
As the new school year begins, USC Shoah Foundation’s IWitness consultants are busy introducing teachers to IWitness and teaching with testimony at seminars and workshops around the country.IWitness…
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
USC’s Beth Meyerowitz and USC Shoah Foundation Host Trauma Education Workshop at Kigali Genocide Memorial
For those who work in the field of genocide memorialization and genocide education, a typical workday can include learning about disturbing subject…
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Me, My Grandparents and Holland
My “mormor” (literally mother's mother) Greta exuded love and her heart burst for my sister and me. Along with my “morfar” (mother's father) Ingvar, they ensured us an innocent and idyllic childhood…
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
An Artist's Perspective
By Stacie ChaikenRwanda is Mille Colines, The Land of a Thousand Hills; it is gorgeous, lush, and green. Local folklore says that God wanders the world during the day and comes home to Rwanda to…
Monday, August 11, 2014
2014 International Conference Panel Spotlight: Digital Archives and Teaching About Genocide
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, August 8, 2014
Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County Becomes USC Shoah Foundation Partner School
USC Shoah Foundation has partnered with its first Jewish day school – Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County in New Jersey – to introduce teachers to methods of teaching with testimony and…
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Holocaust Survivor Dario Gabbai Donates Historical Documents to USC Shoah Foundation
He is perhaps the last witness to the Final Solution. As a young prisoner at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Dario Gabbai was chosen by the Nazis to be a Sonderkommando – Jews who were forced to usher people…
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
The Making of The Act of Killing
This year The Act of Killing was nominated for an Oscar for the best feature documentary. The film was of particular interest to those who work in the field of testimony, as Joshua Oppenheimer…
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
The Visual Connection to My Students
For years now I have noticed that my students are especially interested in the information from non- traditional educational channels; visual and auditory information are often more welcome than…
Monday, August 4, 2014