News By Year and Month

Behind the Music: Challenging “Music as Resistance”

This series will introduce the scholars and musicians who will participate in USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s international workshop Singing in the Lion’s Mouth: Music as…

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

USC Shoah Foundation Participates in #AskAnArchivist Day for Second Year

Have you ever wanted to know what it takes to become an archivist? Or what the archivists at the USC Shoah Foundation are working on today? How has the…

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

"Past is Present" in Action: Charlotte Masters

This year-long series will catch up with teachers, Junior Interns and staff who participated in the Auschwitz: The Past is Present professional development program led by USC Shoah Foundation and…

Monday, September 28, 2015

Breakfast with Paula

“Coffee?” said the waitress. “No, none for me please!” said Paula. “I can’t stand coffee!” she said, leaning forward to me before uttering back to the waitress. “Espresso…

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Anita Lasker Wallfisch Records Interview for New Dimensions in Testimony

New Dimensions in Testimony, USC Shoah Foundation’s project with Conscience Display to record three-dimensional, interactive testimonies of Holocaust survivors, is set to expand in a big way…

Friday, September 25, 2015

Behind the Music: Resisting Apartheid with Music in South Africa

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Hate Speech is not Freedom of Speech

Rini Sampath is the last person any smart individual would choose to insult. She is intelligent, bright eyed, strong – an independent individual with a highly centered sense of her own…

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Course at Lauder Jewish School in Prague Introduces Students to Testimony

USC Shoah Foundation Senior International Program Consultant Martin Šmok has begun teaching a yearlong course at the Ronald Lauder Jewish School in Prague to introduce students to the Visual History…

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

New Czech-Language Exhibit Highlights Plight of Refugees

A new exhibit on the USC Shoah Foundation website takes a closer look at the stories of refugees after World War II. It is inspired…

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Six Easy Steps to Join #IWitnessChat

In an effort to create a deeper engagement with educators online, USC Shoah Foundation’s educational website IWitness is hosting monthly Twitter chat's on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month. We…

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

IWitness Enhances Word Cloud Functionality

Students can now get even more creative with their IWitness Information Quests.The Information Quest is a brief activity designed for students to view…

Monday, September 21, 2015

Бесіда з координаторкою Фонду Шоа в Україні Анною Ленчовською на Громадському Радіо

Monday, September 21, 2015

Behind the Music: Commemoration and Resistance in the Music of Shostakovich

Friday, September 18, 2015

Detroit Students Share Experiences with Testimony at Ambassadors for Humanity Gala

While guests of the 2015 Ambassadors for Humanity Gala on Sept. 10 trickled into the Henry Ford Museum and enjoyed a cocktail reception before dinner began, a small group of high school students was…

Thursday, September 17, 2015

The Value of Memory: Using Information Quest in my Classroom

Jane Yolen's novel, The Devil's Arithmetic, is the story of a Jewish teenager, Hannah, who is swept away from her family's Passover Seder back in time to 1942, where she becomes Chaya, a…

Thursday, September 17, 2015

IWitness Webinar Thurs., Sept. 17 and First-Ever IWitness Twitter Chat Sept. 23

Educators have two opportunities to learn about IWitness along with fellow teachers over the next two weeks.First, the next monthly IWitness webinar will be on Thursday, Sept. 17 at 4 p.m. PST. The…

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Ambassadors for Humanity Gala Honors Bill Ford

He’s a businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist and scion of one of America’s most prominent families.But it was Ford Motor Company Executive Director William Clay Ford Jr.’s commitment to…

Monday, September 14, 2015

USHMM Authors New IWitness Activity “Some Were Neighbors”

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) has constructed a new IWitness activity in conjunction with the museum’s Some Were Neighbors exhibit. The activity will be available on the IWitness…

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Behind the Music: Bret Werb and Shoah Songs

Friday, September 4, 2015

Steve Carell, Halle Berry and James Taylor to Appear at Ambassadors for Humanity Gala in Detroit

On Sept. 10, 2015, Steven Spielberg will present William Clay Ford Jr., executive chairman of Ford Motor Company, with USC Shoah Foundation’s highest honor — the Ambassador for Humanity Award –– at…

Thursday, September 3, 2015

H-German Historian Network Honors History Course for IWitness-Based Final Assignment

A Modern Germany history course taught by Longwood University Professor Melissa Kravetz received an honorable mention for “Interesting Assignment” from the H-German online network for its IWitness…

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Teaching Courage

As I start a new school year in a new school teaching a new grade level, I find it slightly ironic that the first theme that my textbook series addresses is courage. As I start another school year, I…

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Begins With Me: An experience of a lifetime

Seeing new students starting their fall semester at USC – my recent alma mater – gives me a strange feeling. I have worked at USC Shoah Foundation during most of my career as an USC undergraduate…

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Application Open for Junior Intern Program

The Junior Intern Program at USC Shoah Foundation is entering its second year and looking for young people who are passionate about human rights and…

Tuesday, September 1, 2015