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Support USC Shoah Foundation on Giving Tuesday

Happy #GivingTuesday!Today is the day to join USC Shoah Foundation’s #BeginsWithMe campaign. Donate to USC Shoah Foundation’s Annual Fund, which supports initiatives across the Institute, including…
Monday, November 30, 2015

Call for Applications: 2016-2017 Greenberg Research Fellowship for PhD Candidates

Call for ApplicationsGreenberg Research Fellowship for PhD Candidates2016-2017The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites research proposals from advanced…
Monday, November 30, 2015

Maximilian Strnad Lecture (Summary)

Maximilian Strnad, University of Munich“The Fortune of Survival – Intermarried Jews in Nazi Germany”November 19, 2015 Maximilian Strnad, a young…
Monday, November 30, 2015

President Barack Obama Awards Medal of Freedom to Steven Spielberg

USC Shoah Foundation founder Steven Spielberg was one of 17 Americans to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama on…
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Teachers Learn About IWitness at Rwanda Peace Education Training

Forty educators in Rwanda attended workshops on using IWitness in peace education in Kigali this month, with another workshop scheduled for later this week.The workshops, titled “Advanced Use of…
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Maximilian Strnad Discusses Fates of Intermarried Jews in Nazi Germany

USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research welcomed the University of Munich’s Maximilian Strnad to USC last week. Strnad gave a public…
Monday, November 23, 2015

My Giving Story

Like many of you, I sat in front of my television on the evening of Friday, November 13, 2015 and watched in horror as news of the terrorist attacks in Paris flooded the airways. "Not again," I…
Monday, November 23, 2015

USC Shoah Foundation Hosts Delegation of Nanjing Massacre Scholars

USC Shoah Foundation Director of Research and Documentation Karen Jungblut hosted a visit from several Nanjing Massacre scholars this week to introduce the work of the Institute and discuss future…
Friday, November 20, 2015

IWitness-CIJE Jewish Day School Initiative Launches in New York City

USC Shoah Foundation and the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education (CIJE) came together on Monday to introduce the IWitness-CIJE partnership in New York.In February 2015, USC Shoah Foundation…
Thursday, November 19, 2015

USC Shoah Foundation Records Testimonies About Current Anti-Semitism in Copenhagen

Unfortunately it is becoming an all too familiar scene: A man with a gun opened fire at a bat mitzvah celebration, killing a security guard and injuring two police officers. Leaders of USC Shoah…
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Former Institute Fellow Jeffrey Shandler to Give Talk at YIVO Institute

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is hosting former USC Shoah Foundation Institute Fellow Jeffrey Shandler for its annual Naomi Prawer Kadar Memorial Lecture Thursday, Nov. 19 in New York City…
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

New IWitness Activity Inspired by Rosa Parks: “Finding Your Seat on the Bus”

Finding Your Seat on the Bus, the IWitness activity piloted by students as part of the IWitness Detroit program, is now published on IWitness.In this activity, students explore the concepts of grit,…
Monday, November 16, 2015

In the Name of Paris

Paris. The way we think of that beautiful city has changed. That's what they want. They want us to think about things differently, to use Paris as a symbol of bloodshed and fear, not the one we…
Monday, November 16, 2015

Teachers Learn About IWitness at University College London Beacon School Program

Special education teacher Tony Cole introduced teachers to IWitness at an orientation for University College London (UCL)’s Beacon School in Holocaust Education program on Oct. 27.The Beacon School…
Friday, November 13, 2015

Jan Karski Documentary to Screen in Los Angeles and New York

The man who carried out one of the most extraordinary missions of World War II is the subject of a new documentary that will screen at select theaters in Los Angeles and New York City throughout…
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

IWitness “Watch” Page Redesigned

The IWitness Watch page has been redesigned in order to enhance user experience for educators.The Watch page offers a curated selection of 198…
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

#BeginsWithMe: How Testimony Impacts My Students

I teach at an Islamic school, and I am in awe of how testimony has opened the eyes and hearts of my students and inspired them to fight injustice. This is particularly amazing considering the Shoah…
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

USC Shoah Foundation Staff Attend UNESCO Meeting on Preventing Violent Extremism Through Education

USC Shoah Foundation executive staff joined UN representatives from all over the world at a special meeting on Preventing Violent Extremism Through Education during the UNESCO 38th General Conference…
Monday, November 9, 2015

My homage to Mr. Laks

In December 1995, USC Shoah Foundation, then called, Survivors of the Shoah Foundation, held a training session for interviewers in Buenos Aires; bringing together people from different countries of…
Monday, November 9, 2015

Wolf Gruner to Present Humanitarian Award to Rwandan Filmmaker Eric Kabera

Wolf Gruner, director of USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, will present Rwandan filmmaker and friend of USC Shoah Foundation Eric Kabera with a special award in Hollywood on…
Friday, November 6, 2015

Stephen Smith Installed as Andrew J. and Erna Finci Viterbi USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Chair

USC President C. L. Max Nikias praised USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith for his dedication to preserving memory…
Thursday, November 5, 2015

In Memory of Thomas Blatt

We are sad to learn of the passing of Thomas Blatt, a Holocaust survivor who was one of the few people to survive an escape from the Sobibor death camp in 1943. He was 88. Born April 15, 1927, in…
Thursday, November 5, 2015

In Memory of Aleksander Laks

USC Shoah Foundation is sorry to learn of the passing of Aleksander Laks, the first Holocaust survivor to give his testimony to USC Shoah Foundation in Brazil and a special friend of the Institute…
Thursday, November 5, 2015

Cornell University is 52nd Visual History Archive Full Access Site

Cornell University has become the 52nd site to provide full access to the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive. The Visual History Archive contains 53,000 testimonies of survivors of…
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

#BeginsWithMe Social Media Campaign Launches Today

If you’ve ever watched genocide survivor testimony from the Visual History Archive and it spurred you to wonder what you can do to help prevent acts of intolerance and inhumanity, USC Shoah…
Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Memory, Identity and Testimony

About a year after I joined USC Shoah Foundation, I was invited to be the keynote speaker at the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre’s Holocaust Education Week in Toronto. The theme…
Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Board of Councilors Members Write Poems Inspired by IWitness Activity

Members of the USC Shoah Foundation Board of Councilors got creative during the annual board meeting in New York, Oct. 14-15.In a breakout session led by Director of Education Kori Street, members of…
Monday, November 2, 2015