News By Year and Month
Center for Advanced Genocide Research Welcomes Summer Research Fellows
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research will host a steady stream of undergraduate, graduate and faculty fellows this summer who will conduct research in the Visual History Archive…
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Yad Vashem to Honor Branko Lustig and Hollywood Reporter in Los Angeles
The American Society for Yad Vashem will honor Holocaust survivors in Hollywood at its annual gala in Los Angeles June 6, inspired by The Hollywood Reporter’s landmark story “Hollywood’s Last…
Friday, May 27, 2016
Tearing Off the Label: Resistance as a State of Mind
The young Nazi approached 13-year-old Szulem Czygielmamn as he walked on the sidewalk of Lubartowska Street in Lublin, Poland, and shoved him off the sidewalk. Szulem was lucky; Jews had died for…
Friday, May 27, 2016
Rwanda Peace Education Program Concludes, Measures Impact of USC Shoah Foundation in Rwanda
Educators in Rwanda share their thoughts on IWitness at Kigali Genocide Memorial
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Thursday, May 26, 2016
Institute Staff Attend IHRA Meetings in Bucharest
USC Shoah Foundation Managing Director Kim Simon and Director of Education Kori Street are in Bucharest, Romania, this week at the bi-annual plenary meeting of the International Holocaust…
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Application Open for Advanced “Echoes and Reflections” Seminar at USC Shoah Foundation
USC Shoah Foundation is searching for Echoes and Reflections-trained educators who are passionate about teaching, interested in creating IWitness lessons and dedicated to impacting student learning…
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
New on IWitness: Hungarian Clips and Download Tool
IWitness’s popular Watch page, which features curated testimony clips and accompanying educational materials, has added new content and features in…
Monday, May 23, 2016
Armenian Genocide Collection to be Translated and Subtitled
USC Shoah Foundation’s Armenian Genocide Collection is in the process of being transcribed, translated and subtitled in English, so that more scholars, students and the public can watch the…
Friday, May 20, 2016
Teresa Walch Awarded First Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s inaugural Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies for 2016-2017 has been awarded to Teresa Walch, Ph.D. candidate in modern…
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Genocide Awareness Month Engages Big Audience on Social Media
USC Shoah Foundation’s social media accounts helped thousands of people around the world share and commemorate Genocide Awareness Month…
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
WWII Veteran Reunites with Man he Liberated from Dachau 71 Years Ago
You never know what you will find in the Visual History Archive. You hear stories of survival, death, life, hope and even friendship amidst the chaos of genocide. Sidney Shafner and Marcel Levy have…
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Exhibit on Jewish Refugees in Shanghai Opens at Jewish Museum in Prague
"Stranded in Shanghai,” an exhibit featuring testimonies from the Visual History Archive, opened at the Jewish Museum in Prague on Thursday, May 11.“Stranded in Shanghai” remembers the unique…
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
USC Shoah Foundation Adds New Holocaust Testimony Collection from JFCS to its Visual History Archive
More than 900 Holocaust testimonies recorded over four decades by the Jewish Family and Children Services Holocaust Center of San Francisco (JFCS) are now fully integrated into USC Shoah Foundation’s…
Monday, May 16, 2016
Center for Advanced Genocide Research Awards Katja Schatte 2016-17 Greenberg Fellowship
Katja Schatte, a scholar of postwar East German Jewish history, will be in residence at USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research in spring 2017 as the Center’s 2016-17 Greenberg…
Friday, May 13, 2016
IWitness Video Challenge Deadline Friday, May 13
Today is the last day for educators to submit their students’ work to the 2016 IWitness Video Challenge.The challenge invites students from all over North America to be inspired by the voices in…
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Reflections Upon Graduation: How Testimony Has Changed My Life
In just a few days, I’ll be graduating with my bachelors in International Relations from USC. As I sit here writing this piece, I have a chance to reflect on these three years of fundamental personal…
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
New Dimensions in Testimony on Display at USHMM
New Dimension in Testimony project staff Heather Maio, left, and Kia Hays, right, with the display of Pinchas Gutter at USHMM
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Japanese Activist Tamaki Matsuoka Interviewed for Nanjing Massacre Collection
From her relatively humble beginnings as an elementary school teacher in Osaka, Japan, Tamaki Matsuoka has become one of the fiercest advocates for remembrance and recognition of the 1937 Nanjing…
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Atina Grossmann Lecture (Summary)
Atina Grossmann, PhD (Cooper Union, New York)“Remapping Survival: Jewish Refugees and Lost Memories of Displacement, Trauma, and Rescue in the Soviet Union, Iran, and India”April 11, 2016 …
Monday, May 9, 2016
Dan Stone Lecture (Summary)
Dan Stone, PhD (Royal Holloway, University of London)“Concentration Camps: A Global History”March 29, 2016In his public lecture at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research  …
Monday, May 9, 2016
Alexander Korb Chosen for 2016-2017 Center for Advanced Genocide Research Fellowship
The 2016-2017 Center Fellow at USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research will be Alexander Korb, Ph.D., director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust & Genocide Studies at…
Friday, May 6, 2016
Next Echoes and Reflections Online Professional Development Course Begins May 9
Educators can finish the school year with a three-part online professional development course from Echoes and Reflections on teaching the Holocaust using testimony from the Visual History Archive and…
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Growing up Jewish and Studying the Holocaust
A few weeks ago, a student I was interviewing for a profile I was writing on him for USC Shoah Foundation’s website said something interesting: “Growing up Jewish, the Holocaust is pretty much always…
Thursday, May 5, 2016
#BeginsWithMe - Why I Support Teaching with Testimony
As the son of two survivors of the Shoah and the husband of a daughter of two survivors, identifying as the Next Generation has been the essence of who I am. It is the prism through which I see and…
Thursday, May 5, 2016
USC Shoah Foundation Commemorates Yom HaShoah Around the World
Across the United States and in Europe, USC Shoah Foundation is helping to commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, on May 4 and 5.Executive Director Stephen Smith spoke at the Jewish…
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Managing Testimony Data Gets an Update
USC Shoah Foundation’s ability to capture and preserve important information about each testimony has gotten a critical update.Behind the “curtain” of what viewers see in the Visual History Archive…
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Commemorating Yom HaShoah through Testimony
Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom HaShoah as it’s known in Hebrew, commemorates and honors the victims and survivors of the Holocaust. This year, people around the world will remember the victims of…
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Original Manuscript of Armenian Genocide Whistleblower Discovered in San Francisco
Carla Garapedian, left, shows the Mugerditchian manuscript to USC Shoah Foundation writer Robin Migdol, center, and Diana Hekimian) When a cousin of Diana…
Monday, May 2, 2016