News By Year and Month
"Past is Present" in Action: Tracy Sockalosky
This year-long series will catch up with teachers and staff who participated in the Auschwitz: The Past is Present professional development program led by USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education…
Monday, August 31, 2015
Meeting History
Looking into a mirror and making sure her hair looked just so, Yevnigue Salibian didn’t notice me as I was taking her picture. It took a few seconds, but when she finally realized I had documented…
Monday, August 31, 2015
Aspen, Colorado, Event Introduces USC Shoah Foundation to New Audience
USC Shoah Foundation hosted a special event titled The Digital Future of Holocaust Memory and Education in Aspen, Colorado, yesterday, to introduce new supporters to the work of the Institute.The…
Friday, August 28, 2015
Go Back to School with USC Shoah Foundation Educational Resources, IWitness
With the first day of school already behind many students and teachers, USC Shoah Foundation is debuting several new educational materials that can help educators teach about genocide, civil rights,…
Thursday, August 27, 2015
Teens in Ukraine Create Artwork Inspired by Testimony for “Sources of Tolerance” Summer School
For the second year in a row, testimony from the Visual History Archive is inspiring teenagers to illustrate true scenes of the violation of human rights during the Stalin totalitarian regime and…
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Liliane Weissberg, 2015 Rutman Fellow, Studies Trauma as Narrative in the Visual History Archive
When watching a testimony in the Visual History Archive, Liliane Weissberg pays close attention to the words the survivor is saying, and, just as importantly, to the silences in between those words…
Monday, August 24, 2015
Look at them! - The plight of refugees in the Republic
The President of the Republic went on record to tell the prospective immigrants “nobody invited you here!” Refugees escaping from a murderous regime are regarded as agents of that very regime…
Monday, August 24, 2015
RIPS Math Students Create New and Improved Algorithm for Searching the Visual History Archive
The four undergraduates working with USC Shoah Foundation during the summer Research in Industrial Projects for Students (RIPS) program at UCLA presented their new method for achieving more relevant…
Friday, August 21, 2015
“Practicing Positive Education” Conference in Australia to Include Keynote and Master Class on Testimony
USC Shoah Foundation Australia Regional Consultant Sarah Warby will speak about the power of teaching with testimony at Knox Grammar School’s Practicing Positive Education conference in Sydney, Aug…
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Student From Freie Universität Berlin Meets Family She Researched in Visual History Archive
After watching testimony in the Visual History Archive, many students say they feel like they really “met” the survivors they watched. Véronique Mickisch actually did.Mickisch is a graduate student…
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Free IWitness Webinar Thurs., August 20
Educators are invited to participate in a free IWitness webinar Thurs., Aug. 20 at 4 p.m. PST, to learn more about integrating IWitness into their curriculum.The webinar will be led by Lesly Culp,…
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
“Facing History and Ourselves” Training Includes IWitness Workshop
Teachers participating in Facing History and Ourselves’s “Holocaust and Human Behavior” seminar spent a day at USC last week learning how to use IWitness to teach about the Holocaust, genocide,…
Monday, August 17, 2015
IWitness Workshop for Detroit Students at Henry Ford Museum Inspires Determination and Courage
With the 2015 Ambassadors for Humanity Gala in Detroit just a month away, local students experienced IWitness in their own backyard, at the Henry Ford Museum.During the one-day program for middle-…
Friday, August 14, 2015
Indexing Terms for Emotions Created for JFCS Collection
From left, Crispin Brooks, Syuzanna Petrosyan, and Glenn FoxBy Josh GrossbergWhen USC Shoah Foundation began work on the Holocaust…
Thursday, August 13, 2015
USC To Host International Academic Conference and Concert on Music as a Tool of Resistance
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, in collaboration with the USC Thornton School of Music, will be hosting…
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Drivers of Change – 2015 Youth Day
Time and again, we at USC Shoah Foundation witness how young people strive to make a difference. From middle school students to college graduates, we’ve had the pleasure to work with people inspired…
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
IWitness Activity Library Redesigned with New Layout and Features
Just in time for the new school year, the IWitness Activity Library has been completely redesigned in order to provide a…
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Indexers Reunite to Index Last Testimony from JFCS Holocaust Collection
USC Shoah Foundation indexers Zach Albert, Debbie Kahn, Svetlana Ushakova and Nancy Saul gathered around a computer and peered at the last few minutes of the testimony of Holocaust survivor Ernest…
Monday, August 10, 2015
Testimony Helps Designate French Nun "Righteous Among the Nations"
At least four Jews owe their lives to the actions of Gabrielle Sourgens, also known as Sister Louise, who saved them during the Holocaust. Now, 70 years later, testimony from the Visual History…
Thursday, August 6, 2015
“Ours or Foreign?” Czech Project Engages 600 Teachers, Adds New Material
The Czech project Ours or Foreign? Jews in the Czech 20th Century delivered materials and training to 600 educators in the last fiscal year and added a new unit on the Terezín family camp in…
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Kori Street to Speak at Armenian Apostolic Church of Crescenta Valley
USC Shoah Foundation Director of Education Kori Street has been invited to give a lecture at the Armenian Apostolic Church of Crescenta Valley, Calif., this Sunday, August 9 at 1 p.m.Street’s talk…
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
USC Shoah Foundation Condemns Rise of Anti-Semitism on College Campuses
In light of the deplorable anti-Semitic incident at Ohio State University, and other campuses in recent months, USC Shoah Foundation is working to develop programs that will combat the troubling rise…
Monday, August 3, 2015