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In Memory of James Horner
Film composer James Horner died when his single-engine plane crashed near Santa Barbara on June 22. Earlier this year, the Academy Award-winner worked with USC Shoah Foundation on a movie about a…
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Martin Šmok Shares IWalks at “My Hero, Your Enemy” Conference in Czech Republic
International training consultant Martin Šmok will talk about IWalks with Andrea Petö, former USC Shoah Foundation Teaching Fellow, at the My Hero, Your Enemy international conference June 29 to July…
Friday, June 26, 2015
ITS Staff Host Exhibition Table at American Library Association Conference
USC Shoah Foundation ITS staff will join thousands of librarians and archivists at the 2015 American Library Association (ALA) Conference & Exhibition this weekend in San Francisco.The ALA Annual…
Thursday, June 25, 2015
USC Shoah Foundation Outreach in Michigan Ahead of Detroit Gala
("Spotlight on the News" host Chuck Stokes and Stephen Smith)With the 2015 Ambassadors for Humanity Gala in Detroit less than three…
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Showtime to Broadcast “One Day in Auschwitz” in July
Showtime will broadcast the USC Shoah Foundation-produced documentary One Day in Auschwitz throughout the month of July. One Day in Auschwitz will immediately follow Showtime’s broadcasts of…
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Call for Papers: Genocide and Resistance in Guatemala
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites proposals for its 2016 International Conference: “A ‘Conflict’? Genocide and Resistance in Guatemala.” The conference will be held…
Monday, June 22, 2015
USC Shoah Foundation Presents at Hungarian Consulate Conference in Serbia
USC Shoah Foundation International Training Consultant Andrea Szönyi gave a presentation in Subotica, Serbia, as part of a conference hosted by the Hungarian Consulate in honor of the anniversary of…
Friday, June 19, 2015
A Dél-kaliforniai Egyetem (USC) Soá Alapítványa képviselőjének előadása Szabadkán
Szőnyi Andrea, a USC Soá Alapítvány nemzetközi oktatási főtanácsadója a szabadkai Városházán tartott előadást 2015. június 16-án, a Magyarország Szabadkai Főkonzulátusa által a szabadkai zsidóság…
Friday, June 19, 2015
USC Shoah Foundation Attending World Refugee Day Los Angeles
USC Shoah Foundation will staff a table at this year’s World Refugee Day in Los Angeles. The event will be held Thursday, June 25, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Plummer Park in West Hollywood.World…
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Kori Street Talks Social Media and Holocaust Education at 2015 AHO Conference
For some educators social media may feel like the Wild West, but Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are quickly becoming the new frontier of Holocaust education…
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Stephen Smith Gives Keynote at Holocaust Education Seminar in Israel
USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith joined 25 educators and researchers from Israel and Europe for an expert seminar in Tel Aviv today on Holocaust education in the 21st…
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Junior Interns Reflect on Auschwitz: The Past is Present
(Junior interns with Paula Lebovics, third from left, and Lesly Culp, second from right)Capping off months of preparation, study and…
Monday, June 15, 2015
Under the Shadow of Paragraph 175: Part 3: Gad Beck
Gerhard “Gad” Beck was born on June 30, 1923, in Berlin, along with his twin sister Margot (Miriam). His birth came as a surprise to everyone including the doctor, who had left after Margot was born…
Monday, June 15, 2015
USC Shoah Foundation Digitizes Testimonies from Florida Holocaust Museum
Florida Holocaust Museum has joined the Preserving the Legacy initiative. USC Shoah Foundation ITS staff are currently digitizing FHM’s collection of 207 Holocaust survivor testimonies.Under its…
Friday, June 12, 2015
Students Spread Kindness in Winning IWitness Video Challenge Project
Emma Heintz and Natalia Podstawka drew on the power of small acts of kindness to win the 2015 IWitness Video Challenge.Their video, “From, Your Friend :)” documents their remarkable effort to make a…
Thursday, June 11, 2015
"Past is Present" in Action: Larry Mikulcik
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…
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Philadelphia Staff Host Shabbat for IWitness Video Challenge Participants
For Jewish families who observe Shabbat every Friday evening, a loaf of challah bread is pretty ordinary. But for nine Philadelphia high school students, it was one of the most special gifts they…
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Aegis Trust Launches Expanded Website for Genocide Archive of Rwanda
Aegis Trust and its partners have launched a new, state-of-the-art Genocide Archive of Rwanda online platform that gives access to never-before…
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
IWitness Publishes First Armenian Genocide Activity
USC Shoah Foundation launched its Armenian Genocide Collection in the Visual History Archive in April. Now, a new information Quest Activity about the Armenian Genocide is available for students and…
Monday, June 8, 2015
Rwandan and New Jersey Students Pilot IWitness Activity on Bystanders and #BeginsWithMe
Last Friday, students at Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County in New Jersey dove into IWitness to pilot-test a brand-new IWitness activity called The Bystander Effect.At the very same time,…
Friday, June 5, 2015
Gay Pride Month Inspires Testimony and Blog Series
In honor of Gay Pride Month, each Friday in June USC Shoah Foundation will publish a testimony clip about the diverse experiences of gay people during the Holocaust.
The blog series Under the…
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Wolf Gruner to Present at Armenian Genocide Conference in Berlin
Wolf Gruner, director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, will present a paper on the effect of the Armenian Genocide on the Third Reich at the Gender, Memory and…
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Silence is Not an Option: A Lesson from Paula Lebovics
The school I teach at in Alberta, Canada, is considered a "unique setting" within our public school system. This means that our programming is designed to meet the complex learning, social and…
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
New Format for Echoes and Reflections and IWitness Webinars
USC Shoah Foundation is hosting new webinars for educators that aim to provide a more in-depth and interactive approach to learning how to teach with testimony.Echoes and Reflections and IWitness…
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
IWitness Activity Library Redesign Coming This Fall
Educators will be able to preview the complete redesign of the IWitness activity library this summer in time for its official launch this fall…
Monday, June 1, 2015
Свідчення з Архіву візуальної історії фонду Шоа в реформі системи правоохоронних органів України
В той час, як Україна намагається впроваджувати радикальну реформу системи правоохоронних органів, міжнародний консультант фонду Шоа Університету Південної Каліфорнії в Україні, Анна Ленчовська,…
Monday, June 1, 2015
USC Shoah Foundation Testimonies Help Reform Police in Ukraine
As Ukraine embarks on an effort to radically change its law enforcement culture, USC Shoah Foundation’s international consultant in Ukraine, Anna Lenchovska, is using testimony to teach newly trained…
Friday, May 29, 2015
”Art, the Interpreter of the Unspeakable”: Hungarian Student Art and Literature Project Concludes with Museum Event
Over 100 students and teachers who participated in USC Shoah Foundation’s testimony-based art and writing project in Hungary this year came together last week for a closing celebration that honored…
Thursday, May 28, 2015
„A művészet az elmondhatatlan tolmácsa” – művészeti pályázat záró rendezvénye
A USC Soá Alapítvány és a Zachor Alapítvány immár harmadik éve hirdetett művészeti pályázatot általános iskola felső tagozatán tanuló és középiskolás diákok számára. Idén január 27-e, az auschwitz…
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Testimony Featured in Paideia Alumni Conference and New Auschwitz Album Exhibit in Prague
By Martin SmokTestimony from USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive played a prominent role in two events in Prague last week: Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden’s…
Wednesday, May 27, 2015