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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

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 …
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