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Online Professional Development from Echoes and Reflections Begins April 4

USC Shoah Foundation partner Echoes and Reflections is launching a three-week online professional development webinar series for educators on Tuesday, April 4, 2016.Educators can register for the…
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Alina Bothe Lecture (Summary)

Alina Bothe, PhD (Berlin)“Meeting Survivors Online: Negotiating Memory in the 'Virtual In-Between'”March 1, 2016 Alina Bothe, PhD, the 2015…
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Why I Teach about the Holocaust

When I returned from USC Shoah Foundation’s and Discovery Education’s Auschwitz: The Past is Present program in Poland I was certain of two things. The first is that it would be challenging to find a…
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Dan Stone Gives Global History of Concentration Camps

In his lecture at USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research March 29, Professor Dan Stone offered a global perspective of the origins…
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Rwandan Teachers Attend Advanced IWitness Training

At a training led by USC Shoah Foundation education staff, Rwandan teachers learned how to build IWitness activities and incorporate IWitness into the new Rwandan national curriculum.The training,…
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Melodies of Auschwitz

I attended the event “Melodies of Auschwitz” at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington D.C. on Thursday, March 10, 2016, hosted by PNC to recognize USC Shoah Foundation for its work in…
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

IWitness Update: Drop-Down Menu on Navigation Bar

IWitness has added another update to help users more easily discover new content on the site.IWitness’s navigation bar at the…
Monday, March 28, 2016

How Do You Teach This Stuff?

Two years ago I asked teachers across the United States about the methods and strategies they use to teach the Holocaust in their classrooms. I was conducting this survey as part of my Fellowship…
Friday, March 25, 2016

10 Resources for Teaching about Genocide

Never forget. Never again. These are common phrases used in Holocaust and genocide education. These are important statements especially when they evoke the real reason to study, learn, and teach…
Friday, March 25, 2016

Genocide Awareness Month Resources Launching Tomorrow

Sisters Cuilan Yi and Lanying Yi, survivors of the Nanjing Massacre Just a few days before the start of Genocide Awareness Month in…
Thursday, March 24, 2016

Israel Conference to Discuss North Africa and Middle East Testimonies

Jaqueline Gmach interviewing writer Naïm Kattan in Montreal USC Shoah Foundation’s project to record testimonies of Jews who experienced persecution…
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

IWitness Video Challenge 2016: Advice from Last Year’s Winners

Every other week until the submission deadline May 13, 2016, USC Shoah Foundation will share insight about the IWitness Video Challenge.The 2015 IWitness Video Challenge winners, then-eighth graders…
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

IWitness Presented at Czech Seminar on Migration and Refugees

At the spring gathering of the Union of Civics Educators in Prague on March 19, teachers learned about IWitness as a tool for…
Monday, March 21, 2016

IWitness Watch Page Adds Clips on Japanese Internment, Kristallnacht and Activism

IWitness continues to add new testimony clips to its Watch page, which cover a range of topics from Japanese internment to the Armenian Genocide.A total of 19 new clips were added to the page, which…
Friday, March 18, 2016

Deadline Approaching for USC Student and Faculty Fellowships

USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research is offering summer fellowships for undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty at University of Southern California. The deadline…
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Eva Kor to be Interviewed for New Dimensions in Testimony

From left: Paula Lebovics, Miriam Ziegler, Gabor Hirsch and Eva Kor at Auschwitz: The Past is Present in Poland, Jan. 26, 2015 Auschwitz survivor Eva…
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

"Auschwitz” Documentary to Screen at Tribeca Film Festival

Auschwitz, a 15-minute documentary directed by James Moll and produced by Steven Spielberg, was selected to screen at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival.The film is part of the festival’s “Past Imperfect…
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

USC Students Share Visual History Archive at ucLADINO Symposium

From left: Jessica Marglin, Andrew Soria, Dana Austin and Lara Sassounian at their ucLADINO panel Aided by their exploration of the Visual History…
Monday, March 14, 2016

IWitness Video Challenge 2016: A Teacher’s Perspective

Every other week until the submission deadline May 13, 2016, USC Shoah Foundation will share insight about the IWitness Video Challenge. Emily Bengels, front right,…
Friday, March 11, 2016

Rwandan and American Students Collaborate on Bystander Effect Activity

One class was in Charlotte, North Carolina. The other, in Kigali, Rwanda. But on Friday, March 4, nearly 60 students came together via Skype to talk about what they learned from IWitness’s Bystander…
Thursday, March 10, 2016

Commemorating Women's History Month with IWitness

For Women’s History Month, bring the unique voices of women who survived or stood up against some of the worst atrocities of the 20th century into your classroom. Facing History is partnering with…
Thursday, March 10, 2016

Partnership with ProQuest to Increase Access to Visual History Archive

In the first step of an ambitious multiyear plan to significantly broaden access and meet growing demand for the world’s largest archive of genocide testimony, USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute…
Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Polish Educators Present Testimony-Based Lessons at Teaching with Testimony Follow-Up

Eleven new lesson plans and long term educational projects were developed during the fourth Polish edition of the Teaching with Testimony program.The 2015 cohort returned for their follow up session…
Friday, March 4, 2016

Application Open for Fifth Annual “Teaching with Testimony” in Hungary

Educators in Hungary are encouraged to apply for this year’s Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century program. The deadline is April 3, 2016.This year marks the fifth anniversary of the program in…
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Teaching Fellow Alina Bothe Discusses Testimony as “Virtual In-Between of Memory”

Educators, students, scholars and general users of the Visual History Archive all tell the same story: After watching a genocide survivor or witness’s testimony, they feel like they’ve really “met”…
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Filling in the Silence

Every once in a while, I have a moment when seemingly disconnected ideas collide in peculiar relief, bringing clarity and making sense – admittedly sometimes only to me. I had one of those days…
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

IWitness Adds Activities and Clips in Three New Languages

IWitness is expanding its offerings for non-English speakers.A trio of new activities have been published in three different languages: an Information Quest about Roman Kent (Polish), Homecoming:…
Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Julia Werner Lecture (Summary)

Julia Werner (Humboldt University, Berlin)“Beyond the Pictorial Frame: The Ghettoization of Jews in Poland”February 11, 2016 Left to right: Julia…
Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Kiril Feferman Lecture (Summary)

Kiril Feferman, PhD (Israel/Russia) “Religion and Jewish Survival in the Occupied Soviet Territories” February 2, 2016 Kiril Feferman, PhD, the 2015-2016 Center Fellow, gave a…
Tuesday, March 1, 2016