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Ad Agency Creates Multimedia Website Inspired by Testimony for Riga Ghetto Museum
The designers at Olson, an advertising and digital agency in Minneapolis, typically spend their days creating ad campaigns for clients…
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Armenian Genocide – Filling in the Bookshelves of History
A few weeks ago I went shopping at one of my favorite bookstores in Los Angeles. However, I wasn’t picking out a few books that would sit on my metro-read shelf. I was with a few USC Shoah Foundation…
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Doheny Library and USC Shoah Foundation Host Grand Opening of Blavatnik Archive Exhibit
A panel discussion and appearances by World War II Soviet veterans marked the grand opening of the Blavatnik Archive Foundation's exhibit at USC Thursday night.The exhibit is called Lives of the…
Monday, April 28, 2014
USC President C. L. Max Nikias Announces Center for Advanced Genocide Research with USC Shoah Foundation Founder Steven Spielberg
Seeking to build on USC Shoah Foundation’s 20 years of success in gathering testimonies of Holocaust and genocide survivors, the University of Southern California has established the Center for…
Friday, April 25, 2014
Blavatnik Archive Foundation's Multimedia Exhibit on Soviet Jewish Soldiers Opens at USC Doheny Library
Thursday marked the grand opening of the Blavatnik Archive Foundation's exhibit about Soviet Jewish soldiers during World War II presented…
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Art, Music and Speakers to Commemorate Armenian Genocide at Tommy Trojan
USC’s Armenian Student Association and Shoah Foundation Student Association (SFISA) are teaming up to produce an on-campus commemoration event for the 99th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide…
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Historical Memory
Historical memory is dangerous. In times of crisis, its demons emerge, ugly, toxic, and potentially lethal. We saw it in Donetsk last week. Jews emerging from synagogue during Passover found…
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Auschwitz Jewish Center to Feature Testimony in Permanent Exhibit
Visitors to the Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oświęcim, Poland, will view USC Shoah Foundation testimony in the center’s permanent exhibit beginning in May.The Holocaust survivors featured in the…
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Armenian Film Foundation Delivers 400 Digitized Testimonies to USC Shoah Foundation
J. Michael Hagopian’s collection of 400 interviews of Armenian Genocide survivors and witnesses drew one step closer to being fully integrated into the Visual History Archive today. The Armenian Film…
Monday, April 21, 2014
Reflections on a Mission
In April 1994, the genocide of the Rwandan Tutsis officially began, even though the persecution and killing campaign had gone on for decades. In 100 days, close to 1 million women, children and men…
Monday, April 21, 2014
Los Angeles’ Windward School Partners with USC Shoah Foundation
USC Shoah Foundation has embarked on a partnership with Windward School - its first partner school in Los Angeles - to introduce Windward's teachers to the methodology of teaching with testimony and…
Friday, April 18, 2014
USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Condemns Jewish Registration Flier in Ukraine
USC Shoah Foundation and leaders around the world are condemning an anti-Semitic flier given to Jews in Donetsk, Ukraine, ordering them to register with the government or face deportation and…
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Nearly 1,000 Assets from Genocide Archive of Rwanda Incorporated into IWitness
Students using IWitness can now explore nearly 1,000 historical documents, photographs, publications and additional testimonies to contextualize their learning about the Genocide against the Tutsi in…
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
IWitness Video Challenge Winner is “Voices of Our Journey”
The first-ever winner of the IWitness Video Challenge has been chosen: Voices of Our Journey, by Ruth Hernandez.Hernandez attends Esperanza Charter High School in Philadelphia and was assigned to…
Monday, April 14, 2014
Testimonies Taken for New North Africa and Middle East Collection
All over the world, Jewish survivors of the Holocaust era are giving testimony – but not for USC Shoah Foundation’s original collection of over 51,000 Holocaust survivor testimonies. Instead, they…
Friday, April 11, 2014
University of Vienna is Newest Visual History Archive Full Access Site
University of Vienna Library has licensed full access to the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive. The Visual History Archive contains 107,000 recorded hours of about 52,000 interviews with…
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Teaching and Research Fellows to Study Law, Photography and More in Visual History Archive
USC Shoah Foundation’s 2014 teaching and research fellowships have been awarded to professors and students from a diverse range of disciplines, including writing, anthropology, law and history…
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Comcast and USC Shoah Foundation Announce Multi-Year Agreement to Offer 'Days of Remembrance: PastFORWARD' Series Across Multiple Platforms
PHILADELPHIA, PA and LOS ANGELES, CA – April 8, 2014 – Comcast and USC Shoah Foundation, an organization dedicated to overcoming prejudice, intolerance and bigotry through the educational use of its…
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Kwibuka20 Commemoration Concludes Mission to Rwanda
USC Shoah Foundation’s mission to Rwanda ended Tuesday after the delegation attended the Kwibuka20 commemoration ceremony and delved into USC Shoah Foundation’s work in education and archive-building…
Monday, April 7, 2014
Holocaust Survivor Testimonies Guide IWalks Through Czech Republic
The footsteps of Holocaust survivors will come to life in IWalks, USC Shoah Foundation’s new interactive testimony experience in Czech Republic now available on the USC Shoah Foundation website.IWalk…
Friday, April 4, 2014
When the Past and Future Intersect
As a writer fascinated by literary and political theory on history and memory, I watched students from Camino Nuevo High School interview Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter while I sat in awe…
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Stephen Smith and Kim Simon to Speak at Kigali International Forum on Genocide
USC Shoah Foundation’s executive director Stephen Smith and managing director Kim Simon will participate in the Kigali International Forum on Genocide this week, part of Rwanda’s Kwibuka20…
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Mission to Rwanda Begins with Visit to Partner School and Memorial Sites
A special delegation of staff and supporters of the USC Shoah Foundation arrived in Rwanda yesterday to begin a weeklong mission to learn…
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
IWalks v České republice: očití svědkové jako průvodci historií míst
Nový vzdělávací program USC Shoah Foundation kombinuje filmová svědectví s autentickými lokalitamiPRAHA – Filmové vzpomínky přeživších holocaustu pomohou obnovit historickou paměť v rámci…
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Ukrainian Human Rights Teacher’s Guide Published as Online Resource
The new multimedia Ukrainian teacher’s guide Where Do Human Rights Begin: Lessons of History and Contemporary Approaches is now available as an online resource on the USC Shoah Foundation website.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014
You CAN Go Home Again, Part 2
In the spring of 2000, I agreed to become the president and chief executive officer of Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, the predecessor of USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for…
Monday, March 31, 2014
New IWitness Activities Focus on the Experience of the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda
Students and teachers can commemorate April’s Genocide Awareness Month and the 20th anniversary of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda by completing two new IWitness activities.
IWitness…
Monday, March 31, 2014
Oral History Turns Holographic
Pinchas Gutter sits in a red chair surrounded by bright green fabric under the glare of several thousand LED lights, 53 cameras capturing his every move. This is the world's first ever full-life…
Friday, March 28, 2014
Students Host Genocide Awareness Month at USC
The student members of the Shoah Foundation Institute Student Association (SFISA), USC STAND, and other groups will host a full line-up of events this April to commemorate Genocide Awareness Month at…
Thursday, March 27, 2014