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Czech Students Make Short Films with Testimony

Many high school students enjoy making short, home movies for fun. But in Martin Šmok’s class at the Ronald Lauder Jewish School in…

Monday, February 29, 2016

IWitness Video Challenge 2016: Entering the Contest

Every other week until the submission deadline May 13, 2016, USC Shoah Foundation will share insight about the IWitness Video Challenge.The first step toward winning the IWitness Video Challenge is…

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Schools in Cincinnati and Kentucky Receive First IWitness Workshops

USC Shoah Foundation Regional Consultant Rob Hadley traveled to Cincinnati and Kentucky to lead IWitness workshops with teachers and students. It was the first time either school had been introduced…

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Last Chance to Apply for Greenberg and Katz Research Fellowships

Advanced standing PhD candidates have just five more days to apply for two fellowships at USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research.The application deadline for the Greenberg…

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

ucLADINO Symposium to Include Panel on USC Shoah Foundation

The fifth annual ucLADINO symposium at UCLA will include a panel featuring USC students who have utilized testimony in their research on the Ladino language.Scholars will gather at UCLA March 2 and 3…

Monday, February 22, 2016

Florida Holocaust Museum Partners with USC Shoah Foundation on Education and Access

Students and scholars across Florida will soon be able to access The Florida Holocaust Museum’s digital collections of art, historical objects and first-person testimony. The FHM has signed a three…

Friday, February 19, 2016

Greenberg Fellow Julia Werner Connects Photography to Testimony

From left: Julia Werner, Wolf Gruner, Margee Greenberg, Douglas GreenbergJulia Werner, the 2015/2016 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research…

Thursday, February 18, 2016

“Auschwitz Album” Exhibit Travels to Moscow

A photography exhibit that incorporates testimony from the Visual History Archive is now on display in Moscow following its debut in Prague last spring.The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography in…

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Celebrate Digital Learning Day with USC Shoah Foundation

On Wednesday, Feb. 17, students and educators across the nation will celebrate the intersection of technology and learning, something USC…

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Let's Get Digital: Celebrating Digital Learning Day 2016

Happy Digital Learning Day! Led by Alliance for Excellent Education, Digital Learning Day is an effort to engage students and empower educators through effective use of digital tools…

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Ukrainian Parliament Office Hosts Seminar on "Where Do Human Rights Begin" Teacher's Guide

In January, the office of the Ukrainian ombudsman conducted a seminar for 30 teachers on the best practices of human rights education using USC Shoah Foundation’s multimedia teaching guide, Where Do…

Friday, February 12, 2016

IWitness Adds a Digital Book to Its Resource “Shelf”

IWitness just became a richer resource for students and teachers.IWitness users looking for secondary source material can now use keywords to search The Holocaust and Other Genocides: An Introduction…

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Malach Center for Visual History in Prague Commemorates Six Years of Access to Visual History Archive

A diverse group of guests from NGOs, memory institutions and schools gathered in the heart of historical Prague at the Malach Center for Visual History at Charles University to commemorate its sixth…

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Ukrainian Students Pilot “Arrival at Auschwitz” IWitness Activity

USC Shoah Foundation’s IWitness activity “Arrival at Auschwitz” was piloted in Ukraine last week with 15 students, many of whom had experienced being displaced themselves in the country’s 2014 unrest…

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova Discusses Education and Preventing Extremism in Conversation with Stephen Smith

Ambassador Irina Bokova, director-general of UNESCO, discussed the importance of human rights education in combating radical extremism around the world in a talk with USC Shoah Foundation Executive…

Monday, February 8, 2016

Remembering the Lives Lost

How do we begin to remember the millions of victims of the biggest genocide in human history? How do we echo the gravity of the world’s loss to students? How do we work to create a meaningful moment…

Monday, February 8, 2016

Czech Regional Consultant Gives Lecture at US Embassy in Prague

Martin Šmok, USC Shoah Foundation’s senior international program consultant and regional consultant in Czech Republic, gave his first presentation at the U.S. Embassy in Prague on February 4.Open to…

Friday, February 5, 2016

UNESCO Director General To Speak at USC Shoah Foundation

Ambassador Irina Bokova, director general of UNESCO, will visit USC Shoah Foundation and participate in a public discussion/Q&A on Monday, February 8. The discussion is open to all and will be…

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Center Fellow Discusses Religion and Survival in Occupied Soviet Territories

Kiril Feferman, 2015-16 Fellow at USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, concluded his four-month fellowship with a lecture Feb. 2 at USC about stories of religiously motivated…

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

French Exhibit “Paroles de libérés” Now Available Online

A French-language testimony exhibit that first launched on the ENS Lyon campus last April has been published online.In conjunction with National Day of Remembrance of Deportation held each year in…

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Los Angeles Entertainment Industry joins Institute Board Members David Zaslav and Andy Friendly for An Evening to Benefit USC Shoah Foundation

“Silence is not an option” was the message and personal motto that Holocaust survivor Paula Lebovics shared at a recent USC Shoah Foundation fundraising event — almost 71 years to the day since she…

Tuesday, February 2, 2016