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Peg LeVine Explains Ritualcide in Cambodia in Center Fellow Lecture

During her lecture as the 2014-15 Center Fellow of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research on Thursday at USC Doheny Memorial Library, Peg LeVine shared her experiences…
Friday, February 27, 2015

Why Eva Kor forgave the Nazis

When I met Auschwitz survivor Eva Mozes Kor in January, she was dozing on a chair that doubles as her walker, wearing a contented smile while a flurry of activity buzzed around her. The…
Friday, February 27, 2015

USC Shoah Foundation and the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education Partnering on New Holocaust Studies Program for Diverse Religious Curricula

USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education and the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education (CIJE) are announcing a new partnership that will help bring the Institute’s…
Thursday, February 26, 2015

Holocaust Scholar from Russian State University for Humanities in Moscow Selected as USC Shoah Foundation’s Center Fellow

A Holocaust studies professor from the Russian State University for Humanities in Moscow has been awarded the 2015-16 Center Fellowship by USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research…
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Anti-Semitism is a genocidal killer

Auschwitz, the final destination of Jewish people from across Europe destined to be murdered as a part of the Nazi genocide of the Jews. Auschwitz, a place that housed prisoners of many religions,…
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Jewish Museum in Prague Uses Testimony in New Exhibit “Shattered Hopes”

By Martin ŠmokUSC Shoah Foundation Senior International Training ConsultantAfter displaying testimonies from the Visual History Archive in its…
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

USC Shoah Foundation Appoints Stephen A. Cozen as Chairman of its Board of Councilors

Los Angeles, Feb. 17, 2015 – USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education is pleased to announce Stephen A. Cozen as chairman of its Board of Councilors. Cozen, founder and…
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Film Screening and Fellow Lecture This Week at USC Shoah Foundation

USC Shoah Foundation and its Center for Advanced Genocide Research are hosting two events this week that are free and open to the public.The first is a screening of the documentary Comfort Women…
Monday, February 23, 2015

Kori Street to Discuss Genocide Education at Armenian Genocide Centennial Conference

Kori Street, USC Shoah Foundation Director of Education, will join other education experts for a panel discussion at the Responsibility 2015 conference in New York City, which will commemorate the…
Friday, February 20, 2015

Inside IWitness: "Found Poetry"

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.Testimony can be…
Thursday, February 19, 2015

POLIN Museum of the History of the Polish Jews Staff Visit USC Shoah Foundation

Three weeks ago, USC Shoah Foundation gathered in Poland to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. And just last week,…
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

A Picture of Me!

As I completed the transaction for my first foray with Airbnb for a trip to Paris with my daughter, I was pleasantly surprised by the note that popped up from Christophe, the manager, who alerted me…
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

In Memory of Erna Viterbi

USC Shoah Foundation is saddened to learn of the passing of Erna Viterbi, philanthropist and longtime supporter of USC Shoah Foundation. Erna Finci Viterbi, a descendant of Sephardic Jews, was…
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

USC Students: Enter Student Voices Short Film Contest

USC students have until March 16, 2015 to enter this year’s Student Voices Short Film Contest. Each year, Student Voices encourages students of all majors at USC to create short films…
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Year-Long Guest Book Gathers Nearly 150 Responses from Around the World

Seventeen countries, 28 states and 122 cities later, the USC Shoah Foundation 20th Anniversary Guest Book is officially closed.Based on an idea by former USC Shoah Foundation publicist Krystal Szabo,…
Monday, February 16, 2015

New Anti-Semitism Activity Published on IWitness

In January 2015, the Institute published a new IWitness activity, A Thing of the Past? Anti-Semitism Past and Present. This video editing activity examines anti-Semitism in historical and…
Friday, February 13, 2015

Inside IWitness: “Information Quest: Kurt Messerschmidt”

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.Kurt Messerschmidt…
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Three Days in Auschwitz

I expected to feel an intimate and profound connection to Auschwitz after touring the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum for the first time late last month. After three consecutive days visiting and…
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Teachers Learn to Build IWitness Activities at Kigali Genocide Memorial

By Cat VazquezTeachers gathered at Kigali Genocide Memorial in Kigali, Rwanda, last month to learn how to build their own IWitness activities for their classrooms. The workshop was supported by the…
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Wolf Gruner, Director of Center for Advanced Genocide Research, To Speak on Panel at UCLA

UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies will host Wolf Gruner and other Holocaust and genocide scholars in a panel discussion Thurs., Feb. 12. The talk will be held at 4 pm in 10383 Bunche Hall on the…
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

An unforgettable trip to an unimaginable place

Last month, I had the amazing opportunity to travel to Warsaw and Krakow with USC Shoah Foundation’s mission to Poland for the Auschwitz: Past is Present program, commemorating the 70th anniversary…
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Three New IWitness Activities About Children from Liberation Photo

As part of USC Shoah Foundation's commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz, which took place 70 years ago on January 27, 1945, IWitness has just published three new Information Quest activities…
Monday, February 9, 2015

Stephen Smith to Speak at Armenian Genocide Symposium

USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith will speak at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center’s Armenian Genocide symposium this Sunday, Feb. 8. The symposium, titled …
Friday, February 6, 2015

Greenberg Research Fellow Jared McBride Identifies Holocaust Victims and Perpetrators Through Testimony

By Aleksandra VisserUSC Shoah Foundation InternFor Jared McBride, the 2014-2015 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Fellow, using multimedia…
Friday, February 6, 2015

Inside IWitness: "1936 Olympics: Competing and Inspiring"

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 Video…
Thursday, February 5, 2015

Promising to Remember

“My father is Jewish. My mother is Jewish. And I am Jewish.” Those were the words I kept repeating to myself as I boarded my flight from JFK to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration…
Thursday, February 5, 2015

Malach Center at Charles University Celebrates 5 Years as Visual History Archive Access Site

The Malach Center for Visual History at Charles University in Prague marked its fifth year as a full access site of the Visual History Archive with a conference that brought together local…
Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Pražské Centrum vizuální historie Malach oslavilo již pátý rok existence

Přístupový bod k archivu vizuální historie USC Shoah Foundation, pražské Centrum vizuální historie Malach, oslavilo již pátý rok existence. Jeho posláním je poskytovat odborníkům i široké…
Wednesday, February 4, 2015