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Guatemala Conference Preview: "Racist Discourse and Genocide"

This series will highlight each of the panel discussions at the Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s upcoming conference “A ‘Conflict?’ Genocide and Resistance in Guatemala,” September 11-14, 2016…

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Last Chance to See New Dimensions in Testimony at USHMM

The New Dimensions in Testimony installation that has been on display at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C. this summer will close after Labor Day Weekend. This…

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Call for Applications: 2016-2017 Interdisciplinary Research Week

Call for Applications: 2016-2017 Interdisciplinary Research Week Deadline: November 15, 2016 The USC Shoah Foundation Center for…

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Call for Applications: 2017-2018 Center Research Fellowship

Call for Applications: 2017-2018 Center Research Fellowship Deadline Extended: November 15, 2016 The USC Shoah Foundation Center for…

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

IWitness Back-to-School Updates Include 13 New Activities

Learn About Back to School Resources Today IWitness launched its entire suite of new content and features to coincide with the new school year. Among the hundreds of full testimonies, testimony…

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Visual History Archive Updated with Guatemalan Genocide Collection, Canadian Collections and Interface Enhancements

New Guatemalan testimony as it appears in the Visual History Archive The Visual History Archive added 1,302 new…

Monday, August 29, 2016

Over 800 New Indexing Terms to be Added to Visual History Archive Thesaurus

Crispin Brooks, second from right, and indexers Zach Albert, Debbie Kahn, Sventlana Ushakova and Nancy Saul A team of USC…

Friday, August 26, 2016

Back to School With IWitness: 7 Reasons to Teach with Testimony

The Visual History Archive from USC Shoah Foundation preserves 53,000 eyewitness testimonies to genocide and the Institute’s educational website IWitness offers access to over 1,500 of those…

Friday, August 26, 2016

Guatemala Conference Preview: "Repression and Resistance"

This series will highlight each of the panel discussions at the Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s upcoming conference "A ‘Conflict?’ Genocide and Resistance in Guatemala,” September 11-14, 2016…

Thursday, August 25, 2016

New Polish, Hungarian and English-Language Clips on IWitness Watch Page

The Watch page on IWitness has added Polish-language testimony clips for the first time, plus several other Hungarian and English-language clips, in time for the start of the 2016-2017 school year. …

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Historic Photos of a Little-Known Outdoor Jewish Ghetto

The following is a summary of a collection of photos depicting…

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Application Open for Third Year of Junior Intern Program

Click HERE to apply for the 2016-17 program USC Shoah Foundation is preparing for the third…

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Guatemala Conference Preview: "Studying Perpetrators"

Monday, August 22, 2016

ProQuest Sponsors Visual History Archive Webinar for Association of College & Research Libraries

About 60 librarians and archivists from the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) viewed a webinar about the Visual History Archive on Thursday, August 18, hosted by ProQuest and USC…

Friday, August 19, 2016

Two New Teacher-Authored Activities Published in IWitness

The two newest activities in IWitness were written by teachers who were inspired to help fellow educators teach their students profound lessons using testimony from the Visual History Archive. …

Thursday, August 18, 2016

Michigan Hosts First ITeach Institute

Detroit-area educators are in the midst of a three-day ITeach Institute to develop their knowledge and skills for teaching with IWitness. The institute, the first of its kind in Michigan, is part of…

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Teachers "Catch" Historical Memories in Brno, Czech Republic

Nine teachers gathered at the International school of Brno on Monday for an IWitness hands-on seminar led by Martin Šmok, USC Shoah Foundation’s senior international program consultant based in the…

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Back to School With IWitness: How to Download Student’s Work from IWitness

As a member of the IWitness team, I always love to hear directly from teachers—how the experience using our website is going for them and their students, and what things would help make the…

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Gift to USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research will Endow New Academic Research Fellowship

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research has established a new endowed academic research fellowship with a gift from four longtime supporters of the Institute. Gerald…

Monday, August 15, 2016

Responsibility and Truthfulness are not Privileges but Duties

Polish Version Poland’s new right-wing government wants to change the way children in that country learn about the Holocaust, casting Poles as only victims or heroes. In this new…

Monday, August 15, 2016

Odpowiedzialność i prawdomówność nie są przywilejami, ale obowiązkami, szczególnie jak się jest nauczycielem

Polski nowy, prawicowy rząd chce zmienić sposób nauczania polskich uczniów o Zagładzie Żydów, kreując Polaków na wyłącznie ofiary lub bohaterów. W tej nowej narracji Polacy zawsze pomagali słabszym,…

Monday, August 15, 2016

IWitness Gears Up for Back to School with New Content and Features

When teachers and students return to school this fall, IWitness will debut new content and features across the site as part of its annual “Back to School” update. Here’s a list of what users can…

Friday, August 12, 2016

Religious Resistance in Auschwitz: The Sacrifice of Saint Kolbe

Maximilian Kolbe, born in Poland in 1894, was a Franciscan friar and Catholic priest. He spent most of his life studying theology and dedicating himself to the church, traveling across Europe and…

Friday, August 12, 2016

Testimony in Armenian Collection Will Include Visual History Archive’s First Funeral

The integration of the final Armenian Genocide collection testimonies in the coming months will bring unique stories and testimony formats to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive — including…

Thursday, August 11, 2016

USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research to Honor Holocaust Scholar David Cesarani

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research will host a symposium to honor the work of leading Holocaust scholar David Cesarani from Great Britain, who died last year just weeks…

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

IWitness Workshop at Powell Holocaust Summer Institute in Seattle

USC Shoah Foundation’s education regional consultant for the United States, Rob Hadley, is teaching 30 educators about IWitness during the Powell Holocaust Summer Institute at the Henry and Sarah…

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Fifth Annual Master Teacher Program in Poland Inspires Educators

The fifth annual Master Teacher program in Poland (formerly called Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century) introduced thirteen educators to the Visual History Archive, sparking new ideas for…

Monday, August 8, 2016

Extended Deadlines for Two Fellowships at Center for Advanced Genocide Research

Faculty at universities around the world have three more weeks to apply for two fellowships at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research. The application deadlines for the…

Friday, August 5, 2016

The Memory of a Hero: Aristides de Sousa Mendes' Legacy Preserved in Testimony

Earlier this summer, Eleanor Beardsley of NPR met with a group of Holocaust survivors and relatives gathered in Bordeaux, France. They were beginning a 10-day trek, tracing a specific escape route…

Friday, August 5, 2016

Stories of Olympians in the Visual History Archive

As the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro approach, concerns about the Zika virus and the city’s preparedness abound. In 1936, concerns about the Berlin Olympics were rampant as well -- however,…

Thursday, August 4, 2016