News By Year and Month

Board Member Mickey Shapiro Endows Academic Research Fellowship

Longtime USC Shoah Foundation board member Mickey Shapiro has given a gift to fund an endowed research fellowship program at the Institute’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research in honor of his…
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Second-Grade Students in Hungary Learn about Hanukkah from Testimony

A teacher in Hungary used testimony to introduce some of her school’s youngest students to Jewish culture. Szilvia Szunyogh is a graduate of USC Shoah Foundation’s Teaching with Testimony in the…
Monday, December 21, 2015

Watch Testimony Clips in New Book from the March of the Living

A smartphone app makes it possible to view testimony clips from the Visual History Archive that are linked to the new book Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations. …
Friday, December 18, 2015

Top 10 IWitness Activities of 2015

As 2015 comes to an end our education team takes a look at the 10 IWitness activities most assigned by educators. …
Friday, December 18, 2015

New Dimensions in Testimony Wins Best Paper at Digital Storytelling Conference

The 2015 International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling awarded “Best Paper” to the staff of USC Shoah Foundation’s New Dimensions in Testimony project.This year’s ICIDS conference was…
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Over 50 New Clips Added to IWitness Watch Page

The IWitness team has added 52 new clips to the Watch page. These clips cover a wide range of topics, from the Armenian Genocide to the Nanjing Massacre.The Watch page is accessible to anyone, and…
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

To Keep the Memories Alive One Must Witness

I found as a teacher that the most challenging task when teaching about the Holocaust and genocide, is how to do it not using material that shocks the students to the point that they do not want to…
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

A Message from Andra Coulter

I teach at an elementary school for boys with behavioral and emotional difficulties that impede their ability to be successful. When we began our Holocaust unit in early April, it became immediately…
Monday, December 14, 2015

Twenty New Testimonies to be Recorded for Nanjing Massacre Collection

USC Shoah Foundation is honoring the 78th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre today by returning to Nanjing to record 20 new testimonies for its Nanjing Massacre collection.Director of Research and…
Saturday, December 12, 2015

IWitness Debuts First Theatre-Inspired Activity

Through a partnership with the National Jewish Theater Foundation, IWitness has added a brand-new activity that guides secondary students to develop historical narrative monologues using testimonies…
Friday, December 11, 2015

Museum of Tolerance to Host Screening and Q&A with Eva Schloss

USC Shoah Foundation is co-hosting a film screening and Q&A about the new film No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles on Sunday, Dec. 13 at…
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Happy Hanukkah!

You’re never too old to learn about cultural diversity. I realized this over the weekend, on the eve of Hanukkah. My mom, a fourth grade teacher, told me about an incident she’d just experienced…
Thursday, December 10, 2015

French-Language Article Traces History of USC Shoah Foundation

USC Shoah Foundation’s French consultant Emmanuel Debono published an article about USC Shoah Foundation and its use of testimony in the French review journal Études arméniennes contemporaines …
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

My Homeland: Combating Hatred through Education in Poland

Poland faces a horrible wave of extremism after the election of a new right-wing government. As an educator and Polish citizen, I am not only scared by this type of radical hatred, but it also…
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Today Marks International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime

The United Nations has declared December 9, 2015, the first International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of…
Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Renee Firestone Records Interview for New Dimensions in Testimony

It had been a long week and Renee Firestone was tired. But when a group of students showed up on Friday at the dark studio where she had spent days answering questions about her life, her mood…
Monday, December 7, 2015

USC Shoah Foundation Featured in Book about History of Testimony

A new anthology From Testimony to Story: Video Interviews about Nazi Crimes: Perspectives and Experiences in Four Countries includes two chapters about USC Shoah Foundation, written by its…
Friday, December 4, 2015

Students and Teachers Developing IWalks in Hungary

Five more IWalks are in development in Hungary as part of a new initiative led by teachers who have graduated from USC Shoah Foundation’s Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century professional…
Thursday, December 3, 2015

Polish “Teaching with Testimony” Participants Impact Schools and Communities with Testimony-Based Lessons

The 2014 cohort of Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century in Poland reunited to share the lessons they piloted in their classrooms over the past year, with impressive results.At the initial…
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

#BeginsWithMe - Changing the world through testimony

If you’ve ever watched genocide survivor testimony from the Visual History Archive and it spurned you to wonder what you can do to help prevent acts of intolerance and inhumanity, USC Shoah…
Tuesday, December 1, 2015