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Free IWitness Video Challenge Webinar Thurs., March 19

Educators, have you entered the IWitness Video Challenge yet?If not, or if you want more information about the challenge and how it works, you are invited to attend a free webinar Thursday, March 19…
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Chief Technology Officer Sam Gustman Delivers Keynote at “Metadata Madness” Conference

USC Shoah Foundation CTO Sam Gustman is the keynote speaker at Tuesday’s Metadata Madness conference in Los Angeles, which will convene data experts from across the entertainment and technology…
Monday, March 16, 2015

Results Are In for 16th Annual Holocaust Art & Writing Contest

(First place high school art: Joshua Sands, "The Writing on the Wall")Stunning works of art, film and writing have once again been given top…
Friday, March 13, 2015

Inside IWitness: “Information Quest: Ellis Lewin”

Inside IWitness is an ongoing series that will profile each activity in IWitness, along with a clip featured in the activity and a teacher who uses IWitness in his or her classroom. Students examine…
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Příjezd do Osvětimi - fotografie a osobní prožitky

V platformě IWitness je k dispozici nová aktivita v češtině nazvaná Příjezd do Osvětimi - fotografie a osobní prožitky. V průběhu této aktivity studenti zkoumají historické fotografie coby primární…
Thursday, March 12, 2015

IWalks in Vinohrady and Radiotrh, Czech Republic, Published Online

The complete resources and video clips for two IWalks in Czech Republic have been published on the USC Shoah Foundation website. These online resources make it possible for anyone to embark on the…
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Peter Hayes speaks on the different but related hatred of gays and Jews during the Nazi regime

On Tuesday, March 10, 2015, the USC Center for Advanced Genocide Research hosted a lecture from Dr. Peter Hayes who spoke before a packed room at USC on the complex relationship between anti-Semitism…
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Stephen Smith Talks Future of Holocaust Education and Armenian Genocide

(Stephen Smith and Michael Abramowitz at CAJM's Open Source: Jewish Museums and Collaborative Culture conference. Photo by…
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

"Past is Present" in Action: Jeannie Woods

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, March 9, 2015

You can always find a piece of relevant testimony in the Visual History Archive

In February, I participated in an international conference titled Are we losing memory? Forgotten sites of Nazi forced labor in Central Europe. The event organized by the Terezin Initiative…
Monday, March 9, 2015

Educators Praise IWitness at Reflective Workshop in Rwanda

(Educators talk about IWitness in a panel discussion at Kigali Genocide Memorial)With IWitness in Rwanda entering…
Friday, March 6, 2015

Make it Happen – The Women of the Visual History Archive

On March 8, 2015 there will be events all over the world celebrating the achievements of women for International Women’s Day. This year’s theme Make it Happen encourages action for advancing women’s…
Friday, March 6, 2015

Inside IWitness: "New Beginnings - Journey to America"

Inside IWitness is an ongoing series that will profile each activity in IWitness, along with a clip featured in the activity and a teacher who uses IWitness in his or her classroom. Most students are…
Thursday, March 5, 2015

Purim is No Celebration

Only on Halloween would you expect to meet Xena Princess Warrior out on the streets, unless that is, she is with a small lion with payot, in which it case it is likely Purim. Turning ghouls into…
Thursday, March 5, 2015

Hungarian Students Write About Testimony in Art and Writing Contest

(Left to right: Luca Szöllősi, Csenge Gábeli and Anna Breczku)When ninth grader Csenge Gábeli started watching her first-ever clip of testimony from…
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Closed Captioning Available for Select IWitness Activities

USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to provide closed captioning for IWitness activities and the IWitness Video Challenge, thanks to a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.By adding closed…
Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Wolf Gruner Publishes New Books on the German Reich and Indigenous People of Bolivia

Wolf Gruner, Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, has published two new books about discriminatory…
Monday, March 2, 2015

Peg LeVine Explains Ritualcide in Cambodia in Center Fellow Lecture

During her lecture as the 2014-15 Center Fellow of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research on Thursday at USC Doheny Memorial Library, Peg LeVine shared her experiences…
Friday, February 27, 2015

Why Eva Kor forgave the Nazis

When I met Auschwitz survivor Eva Mozes Kor in January, she was dozing on a chair that doubles as her walker, wearing a contented smile while a flurry of activity buzzed around her. The…
Friday, February 27, 2015

USC Shoah Foundation and the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education Partnering on New Holocaust Studies Program for Diverse Religious Curricula

USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education and the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education (CIJE) are announcing a new partnership that will help bring the Institute’s…
Thursday, February 26, 2015

Holocaust Scholar from Russian State University for Humanities in Moscow Selected as USC Shoah Foundation’s Center Fellow

A Holocaust studies professor from the Russian State University for Humanities in Moscow has been awarded the 2015-16 Center Fellowship by USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research…
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Anti-Semitism is a genocidal killer

Auschwitz, the final destination of Jewish people from across Europe destined to be murdered as a part of the Nazi genocide of the Jews. Auschwitz, a place that housed prisoners of many religions,…
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Jewish Museum in Prague Uses Testimony in New Exhibit “Shattered Hopes”

By Martin ŠmokUSC Shoah Foundation Senior International Training ConsultantAfter displaying testimonies from the Visual History Archive in its…
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

USC Shoah Foundation Appoints Stephen A. Cozen as Chairman of its Board of Councilors

Los Angeles, Feb. 17, 2015 – USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education is pleased to announce Stephen A. Cozen as chairman of its Board of Councilors. Cozen, founder and…
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Film Screening and Fellow Lecture This Week at USC Shoah Foundation

USC Shoah Foundation and its Center for Advanced Genocide Research are hosting two events this week that are free and open to the public.The first is a screening of the documentary Comfort Women…
Monday, February 23, 2015

Kori Street to Discuss Genocide Education at Armenian Genocide Centennial Conference

Kori Street, USC Shoah Foundation Director of Education, will join other education experts for a panel discussion at the Responsibility 2015 conference in New York City, which will commemorate the…
Friday, February 20, 2015

Inside IWitness: "Found Poetry"

Inside IWitness is an ongoing series that will profile each activity in IWitness, along with a clip featured in the activity and a teacher who uses IWitness in his or her classroom.Testimony can be…
Thursday, February 19, 2015

POLIN Museum of the History of the Polish Jews Staff Visit USC Shoah Foundation

Three weeks ago, USC Shoah Foundation gathered in Poland to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. And just last week,…
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

A Picture of Me!

As I completed the transaction for my first foray with Airbnb for a trip to Paris with my daughter, I was pleasantly surprised by the note that popped up from Christophe, the manager, who alerted me…
Wednesday, February 18, 2015