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Comcast 2015: "Notes of Survival"

USC Shoah Foundation is currently in the second year of Days of Remembrance: PastFORWARD, a five-year partnership with Comcast to provide USC Shoah Foundation content to Comcast Xfinity customers On…
Friday, April 17, 2015

Explore IWitness in Over 90 Languages with Google Translate

Google Translate is now embedded in the IWitness website, making it possible, for the first time, for non-English speaking users to view the site in their own language.Simply select the language from…
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Finding Comfort in Music

Music is the purest form of communication. It transcends language and ignores the passage of time. It can be euphoric and elegiac, subtle and sublime. It joyously welcomes life and mournfully greets…
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

ITS Staff Begins Visual History Archive Site Visits in North Carolina

Doug Ballman, manager of external relations of the online archive at USC Shoah Foundation, paid a visit to North Carolina’s three Visual History Archive access sites earlier this month to receive…
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

USC Shoah Foundation and Texas A&M University To Develop Teaching Fellowships and Intern Program

USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education and Texas A&M University announce a partnership to develop fellowships for professors and a student internship program on the…
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Human Rights and Genocide Awareness Month 2015 at University of Southern California

USC Shoah Foundation’s student association, DEFY (Defying Intolerance Through Education), is working with other University of Southern California student groups to produce several on-campus events in…
Monday, April 13, 2015

USC Shoah Foundation Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute

(L-R: Michael Amerian, Wolf Gruner, Hayk Demoyan, Carla Garapedian, Stephen Smith, Gerald Papazian, Richard Hovannisian)Stephen Smith and…
Friday, April 10, 2015

Dr. Ugur Üngör Considers Role of Kurds in Armenian Genocide in Lecture at Center for Advanced Genocide Research

Dr. Ugur Üngör began his lecture yesterday at The Forum in USC’s Tutor Campus Center by asking a question that has plagued genocide…
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Українські вчителі зможуть використовувати відеосвідоцтва зі студентами, які постраждали від війни

Через військовий і політичний конфлікт, що триває, багато українських школярів знаходять спільне з тими, хто пережив Голокост: вони переживають страх і непевність війни. Регіональна…
Thursday, April 9, 2015

POLIN Edukatorzy muzeum z wizytą w USC Shoah Foundation

Trzy tygodnie temu USC Shoah Foundation zorganizowała w Polsce obchody 70. rocznicy wyzwolenia Nazistowskiego obozu Auschwitz. A w ubiegłym…
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Comcast 2015: "One Day in Auschwitz"

USC Shoah Foundation is currently in the second year of Days of Remembrance: PastFORWARD, a five-year partnership with Comcast to provide USC Shoah Foundation content to Comcast Xfinity customers On…
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Wolf Gruner Receives Research Grant to Study at Center for Jewish Studies, Berlin

Wolf Gruner, director of USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, will spend two months in residence at the Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Jewish Studies this summer researching…
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

"Past is Present" in Action: Johanna Söderholm

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, April 6, 2015

Social Education Journal Publishes Article About IWitness

Three IWitness educators have authored an article about IWitness for the National Council for the Social Studies’ journal Social Education.The article is titled “With Their Voice: Constructing…
Friday, April 3, 2015

Remembering a Lost Friendship from 7th Avenue

Over the last few days I’ve overheard my grandmother and father talk endlessly about Celia Tiano, an Auschwitz survivor from Salonika, Greece, their next-door neighbor on 7th Avenue -- a quiet block…
Friday, April 3, 2015

Teachers Attend Combined ITeach, IWalk and First IWitness Educator Training in Budapest

Educators in Hungary were busy last weekend. USC Shoah Foundation hosted three of its programs for teachers: an ITeach seminar, an IWalk through the Budapest Jewish district, and the first-ever…
Thursday, April 2, 2015

Woman in Gold - A Connection to Testimony

You never know what you are going to discover in the Visual History Archive. Each one of the 53,000 testimonies in the Archive tells a different story of life before, during and after the individual…
Thursday, April 2, 2015

Aegis Trust Rwanda Staff Receive Archiving Training at USC Shoah Foundation

By Cat VazquezUSC Shoah Foundation recently hosted a group of staff from Aegis Trust in Kigali, Rwanda. The guests Claver Irakoze, Archive Manager, Clement Muhire, IT Specialist, Fabrice Musafiri,…
Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Ukrainian Teachers Learn to Use Testimony with Students Affected by War

Due to the ongoing political and military conflicts in their country, many students in Ukraine have something in common with Holocaust survivors: They have all experienced the fear and uncertainty of…
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Armenian Genocide Testimony Clip Series Begins Today

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and the first integration of Armenian Genocide testimonies into the Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation will release one clip…
Monday, March 30, 2015

Comcast’s Days of Remembrance: PastFORWARD Broadcast Returns April 15

Comcast subscribers will be able to watch USC Shoah Foundation testimonies and films exploring the theme of music on Comcast’s second annual Days of Remembrance: PastFORWARD broadcast.Last year…
Friday, March 27, 2015

Documents from Landmark Armenian Genocide Lawsuit Donated to Center for Advanced Genocide Research

L-R: Wolf Gruner, Stephen Smith, Evan Backer, Andrea Marootian, Vartkes Yeghiayan. Photo courtesy of AFPUSC Shoah Foundation Center for…
Thursday, March 26, 2015

"Past is Present" in Action: Karen Wells

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, March 25, 2015

New Partnership Brings Canadian Testimonies to Visual History Archive

Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre (MHMC) and Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre in Toronto announced an historic agreement with USC Shoah Foundation to have their testimonies…
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Under the shadow of Paragraph 175: Part 1: Albrecht Becker

The Holocaust collection in USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive contains over [sfi:vha_testimonies_count] testimonies; however, only a mere six of those testimonies are from survivors who…
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Indexers Begin Training for Preserving the Legacy’s Canadian Collections

With the arrival of new testimonies and indexers, USC Shoah Foundation is advancing to the next stage of its Preserving the Legacy initiative.Preserving the Legacy uses the Institute’s state-of-the…
Monday, March 23, 2015

Application Open for Fourth Annual Teaching with Testimony Program in Hungary

Teachers in Hungary are once again invited to join USC Shoah Foundation’s Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century professional…
Friday, March 20, 2015

New Czech and Roma/Sinti Online Exhibits and Activities

USC Shoah Foundation has published a new online exhibit and two new IWitness activities that expand the Institute’s educational offerings in terms of language and subject matter.The online exhibit is…
Thursday, March 19, 2015

Testimonies of North Africa and Middle East Collection Enters Second Phase

(Armand Abecassis is interviewed for the first phase of Testimonies of North Africa and the Middle East)USC Shoah Foundation is planning to…
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Strength in Humanity Triumphs Over Inhumanity

What does it mean to live 70 years after the liberation of Auschwitz in a world in deep crisis? What does it mean with all we know about the damage that hatred causes – after all the pain we have…
Wednesday, March 18, 2015