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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
Holy War and the Threat of Genocide
A group of men is placed in several trucks. They are driven through the streets and out of town into an open area surrounded by trees. They are beaten around the head with rifle butts, made to run in…
Saturday, August 2, 2014
UCLA Armenian Student Association Donates Proceeds of “Coachellian” Fundraiser to USC Shoah Foundation
USC and UCLA may be rivals on the football field, but they came together for a very important cause last week.Members of the UCLA Armenian…
Friday, August 1, 2014
Croatian Lessons Available Online
A series of Croatian-language Holocaust lessons commissioned in 2006 by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports is now available on USC Shoah Foundation’s website. The lessons draw on…
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
My Parents’ Nightmares Relived – The Rise of Anti-Semitism in Europe
USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education was founded to capture the voices, emotions and faces of those who suffered, yet miraculously survived the most heinous crime…
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Go Back to School with USC Shoah Foundation Educational Resources
View Back to School Resources for EducatorsStudents may still be enjoying their summer vacation, but the new school year is just around the corner. USC Shoah Foundation has prepared a convenient one…
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
The Killer Within
By Ted BraunJoshua Oppenheimer’s landmark new documentary, The Act of Killing, accomplishes something few films have been able to do—bring viewers…
Monday, July 28, 2014
Jogos önvédelem Alexovics Ingrid írása
“Az emlékezet gondolkodó emberré tesz, a társadalmi emlékezet társadalmi kontextusban gondolkodó emberré.”“A gondolkodásra való képtelenség – az esztelen meggondolatlanság, a reménytelen…
Monday, July 28, 2014
Second IWitness Educator Workshop in Rwanda Welcomes Teachers to Muhanga
The second IWitness educator workshop in Rwanda will be held next week, and will incorporate new elements to provide an experience unique from the first workshop last November.The workshop is part of…
Friday, July 25, 2014
Resiliency, Rebirth and New Life
In just a few short months I will be holding a new born baby in my arms. The depth and complexity of emotion that I feel as this time approaches is multiplied by the experiences I have had working at…
Friday, July 25, 2014
Rutman Teaching Fellow Harry Reicher Delves into the Visual History Archive
Harry Reicher, USC Shoah Foundation’s first-ever Rutman Teaching Fellow, wrapped up his four-day fellowship today with a talk that revealed how…
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Institute Statistics Reveal Huge Gains in USC Shoah Foundation Outreach This Year
The number of people who watched testimony in the 2013-14 fiscal year more than doubled from last year, USC Shoah Foundation’s year-end statistics reveal. And that’s just one of many impressive…
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Aegis Trust Youth Champions Use IWitness in Peace-Building Projects
(Aegis Trust Youth Champions at IWitness training with Rose Twagiramariya, second from left, and Appolon Gahongayire, far right)Young…
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
In Memory of Harry Reicher
In Memorium
Our friend and fellow scholar Harry Reicher passed away October 27, 2014.
To honor this remarkable man and visionary scholar, the Institute gratefully re-posts his profile…
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Audiences Interact with Pinchas Gutter in Early New Dimensions in Testimony Pilot
Development took a major step forward this month for New Dimensions in Testimony, the three-dimensional, fully interactive display of…
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Time for a Palestinian Uprising from Within
The statistics are rolling in: Thousands of rockets fired, thousands of homes destroyed, 65,000 reservists deployed, hundreds of Palestinian and tens of Israeli dead, miles of print, hours of…
Monday, July 21, 2014
Mathematics Undergraduates Develop Information Retrieval in IWitness for Annual UCLA Summer Program
(L-R: Lingxi Zhou, Mateo Wirth, Qiaoyu Yang, Bin Bi, Ilan Morgenstern Kaplan)Some of the brightest college students in applied mathematics are…
Friday, July 18, 2014
The Place of the Vél d’Hiv Roundup in French Collective Memory
On July 16 -17, 1942, over 13,000 Jews from Paris and its suburbs were rounded up by French police in the early morning hours and forcefully taken from their homes to both the Vélodrome d’Hiver, a…
Friday, July 18, 2014
Teachers and Graduate Students Learn About Visual History Archive at University of Michigan
The University of Michigan- Flint held its second annual Workshop on Teaching and Working with Survivor Testimonies this week.To mark the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan Tutsi Genocide, the workshop,…
Thursday, July 17, 2014
USC Shoah Foundation Guest Book Receives Messages of Thanks and Inspiration From Around the World
The messages come from Canada, the Netherlands, Arkansas. Some are written by teachers or former interviewers or the children and grandchildren of survivors. Some express sadness for the lives lost…
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Using Stories as Data and Data to Tell Stories
By Steve KayWe open newspapers every day and read about atrocities being committed all over the world. We see graphic images, read the stories—and, for many of us, go back to our busy lives. …
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Documenting Life Histories
The 53,000 testimonies in the Visual History Archive from the USC Shoah Foundation tell a complete personal history of life before, during and after the interviewee’s firsthand experience with…
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
FCC Modernizes E-Rate Program to Improve Wi-Fi in Schools
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has paved the way for better Wi-Fi in schools by modernizing its E-Rate program, the nation’s largest program for supporting communications technology in…
Monday, July 14, 2014
Echoes and Reflections Trainings Around the Country in July and August
Dozens of Echoes and Reflections professional development seminars and workshops will be held across the country over the summer months, providing educators the opportunity to learn about teaching…
Friday, July 11, 2014
Stephen Smith Presents IWitness at Yad Vashem International Conference on Holocaust Education
Stephen Smith, executive director of the USC Shoah Foundation, presented USC Shoah Foundation’s educational work at the 9th annual International Conference on Holocaust Education at Yad Vashem in…
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Teaching with Testimony Graduate Uses Visual History Archive to Discover Unknown Labor Camp
A forgotten forced labor camp for Jews in Czech Republic has been rediscovered as a result of research conducted in the Visual History Archive by Marcel Mahdal, a graduate of USC Shoah Foundation’s…
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Memorials, Government Visits and Nature Trips on Second Half of Problems Without Passports Rwanda
The Problems Without Passports trip to Rwanda ends today after a busy second week that included visits to some of Rwanda’s most stunning nature sites and opportunities for the students to meet…
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Resisting the Path to Genocide
by Mukesh KapilaThe key to resisting the path to genocide is early intervention, but before one can intervene, one must have in hand detailed information and evidence. Collecting testimony after the…
Monday, July 7, 2014
Crimean Teachers Attend Seminar on Oral History and Human Rights
Despite the current political turmoil in their country, six teachers from Crimea traveled to Kyiv last month for a seminar on oral history and USC Shoah Foundation’s Where Do Human Rights Begin…
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Freie University Berlin Offering Summer School Course on the Visual History Archive
For the sixth time, the Freie Universität Berlin will offer a free summer course for international and visiting scholars about USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive. This summer, the topic of…
Wednesday, July 2, 2014