News By Year and Month
2016 IWitness Video Challenge Award Goes to Eighth-Grade Poetry Club Creators
The winners of the 2016 IWitness Video Challenge: Teacher Emily Bengels and students Allison Vandal, Caroline Waters and Maya…
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Junior Interns Visit Manzanar Japanese Internment Camp
Last year, the USC Shoah Foundation Junior Interns traveled to Poland and visited Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum to see one of the places where the hatred and inhumanity of the Holocaust was…
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
A childhood lost, a childhood found
At its physical core, USC Shoah Foundation is an impressive bank of computers and programs that bring the testimony of genocide survivors to people around the world.
It’s a complicated and…
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
New Monument in Békéscsaba, Hungary, Marks 72 Years Since Transport to Auschwitz-Birkenau
The town of Békéscsaba, Hungary, gathered on June 26 to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the transport of the town’s Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau by unveiling the first monument to pay tribute to…
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
UK’s National Holocaust Centre and Museum Commemorates 20th Anniversary
The National Holocaust Centre and Museum, founded by USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith and James Smith, will commemorate its 20th anniversary June 26 with a service at Westminster…
Friday, June 24, 2016
IHRA's Kathrin Meyer Discusses Holocaust Education with Kori Street
Kathrin Meyer, left, with Kori Street
On June 17, Kathrin Meyer concluded her visit to USC Shoah Foundation with…
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Ukrainian Students Create Art for Annual Sources of Tolerance Summer Camp
Ukrainian students once again demonstrated their artistic skill and sensitivity to testimony for this year’s “Sources of Tolerance” summer camp in Ukraine.
This was the third year that students…
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
“Peace Week” Marks Official End of Rwanda Peace Education Program
The Rwanda Peace Education Program will showcase testimony for a final time this week as part of “Peace Week,” a series of events to commemorate the conclusion of the four-year program.
Peace Week…
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Visual History Archive Migrates to New Storage and Archive Manager File System
The USC Shoah Foundation Information and Technology Services (ITS) team migrated to a new Storage and Archive Manager File System (SAMFS) the week of June 15 to June 19. The work includes hardware…
Monday, June 20, 2016
Commemorate World Refugee Day with 24 Hours of Testimony
June 20 is recognized by the United Nations as International Refugee Day to raise awareness of the plight of the refugees around the world. For World Refugee Day 2016 USC Shoah Foundation presents 24…
Friday, June 17, 2016
10 Interesting Facts about the Refugee Experience
June 20th is recognized by the United Nations as International Refugee Day to raise awareness of the plight of the refugees around the world. In the Visual History Archive, the testimonies of…
Friday, June 17, 2016
Next Generation Council Member Sam Pond Hosts Fundraising Event in Philadelphia
Ruth Hernandez, the first winner of the IWitness Video Challenge and currently a Junior Intern at USC Shoah Foundation, was one of the main speakers at a fundraising event in Philadelphia hosted by…
Thursday, June 16, 2016
New Dimensions in Testimony Wins Two Awards at Sheffield Doc Fest
USC Shoah Foundation received two top honors Tuesday at the Sheffield Doc/Fest, the third-largest documentary festival in the world.
The Institute took the audience and jury prizes in the…
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Watch Moderated Discussion with International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Friday, June 17
Join USC Shoah Foundation for an informative conversation with International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)’s Executive Secretary Kathrin Meyer, PhD, on Friday, June 17 in USC’s Leavey Library…
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Honoring the Youngest Female Survivor of Schindler's List
“Oskar Schindler saved my life but Steven Spielberg gave me a voice,” Holocaust survivor Celina Biniaz.
On June 9th, 2016, I attended an event sponsored by Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin…
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Center for Advanced Genocide Research Staff Visit American University of Paris
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research staff took their first trip to the American University of Paris (AUP) last month, the first visit since a partnership between the two…
Friday, June 10, 2016
Educator Workshop in Massachusetts on Teaching the Armenian Genocide
The Armenian Library and Museum of America in Watertown, Massachusetts, and the Genocide Education Project will host a workshop for educators on how to incorporate testimony of Armenian Genocide…
Thursday, June 9, 2016
Announcing the IWitness Video Challenge Regional Finalists
Maya Montell in "Community of Poetry" from Readington Middle School, New Jersey The IWitness Video Challenge invited students from all over North America and…
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Twenty New Testimonies Recorded for Nanjing Massacre Collection
USC Shoah Foundation staff are currently in Nanjing, China, to record about 20 more testimonies of Nanjing Massacre survivors.Cheng Fang, research specialist for the Nanjing Massacre collection, and…
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Remembering Gay Pioneer Bertram Schaffner
A boy caught between two worldsBertram Schaffner’s story is a unique one because of the multiple roles he played as a gay German American during the period that saw the rise of Nazi Germany and World…
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Rwandan Teachers Build New IWitness Activities
After nearly three years of the IWitness in Rwanda program, IWitness will debut new activities created by some of the teachers who participated in the program.Five activities about the 1994 Genocide…
Monday, June 6, 2016
“Teaching and Learning About the Holocaust” Educator Seminar in North Carolina June 4
Rob Hadley, USC Shoah Foundation education consultant in the U.S., will lead an introductory IWitness workshop at the one-day seminar “Teaching and Learning About the Holocaust” Saturday, June 4, in…
Friday, June 3, 2016
Paula Cuellar Cuellar Awarded 2016-17 Center Graduate Research Fellowship
Paula Cuellar Cuellar, Ph.D. candidate in history and human rights at the University of Minnesota, will be in residence at USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research this fall as the…
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Stephen Smith and New Dimensions in Testimony at Sheffield Doc Fest June 10-15
In just one week, the Sheffield Documentary Film Festival will showcase USC Shoah Foundation’s New Dimensions in Testimony project as an example of one…
Wednesday, June 1, 2016