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Sheffield Doc/Fest to Showcase New Dimensions in Testimony
Stephen Smith interviews Eva Schloss for New Dimensions in Testimony New Dimensions in Testimony will be on display at the 2016 Sheffield Doc/Fest…
Monday, April 11, 2016
Apply for Three Teaching Fellowships at Center for Advanced Genocide Research
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research is seeking applicants for three fellowships until Friday, April 15 and Sunday, May 1.The 2016-2017 Teaching Fellowship will provide summer…
Friday, April 8, 2016
Giving Voice to Guatemalan Survivors: Cesilia Tujt's Story
In 2015 , I traveled to Guatemala with a small team from USC Shoah Foundation to train staff from a local organization called the Fundación de Antropología Forence de Guatemala (FAFG) to begin…
Friday, April 8, 2016
IWitness Video Challenge 2016: Rubric and Scoring
Every other week until the submission deadline May 13, 2016, USC Shoah Foundation will share insight about the IWitness Video Challenge.Once students have put the finishing touches on their videos…
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Resources for Teaching about the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda
April 7, 2016 marks the 22nd anniversary of Kwibuka, the official anniversary of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. From April to July 1994, one of the most brutal genocides in human history…
Thursday, April 7, 2016
IWitness Has Most Successful Month Ever
IWitness celebrated a milestone in March: the most registrations ever in a single month.While the month of February brought a record number of 4,022 students and 385 educators…
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Teaching Fellow Leads Conference on Survivors Who Give Multiple Testimonies
For many survivors, their testimony in the Visual History Archive is the only time they ever spoke publicly about their experiences during genocide. But for others, it wasn’t the first time they…
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Visual History Archive Presentations at University of Texas and Texas A&M
Rabbi Matt Rosenberg, left, Wolf Gruner, second from left, Adam Seipp, fourth from right, and Crispin Brooks, third from right, with students at Texas A&M…
Monday, April 4, 2016
An Oxford Experience: Making Testimony Relevant at Home and Abroad
While the average USC student was dragging themselves out of bed to make it to their first class after Spring Break, I was--rather jet-lagged--sitting in an 800 year old room cloaked in paintings of…
Monday, April 4, 2016
New Rwandan IWitness Activity Every Week in April
Starting today and continuing each Friday throughout the month of April, IWitness will publish a new activity geared for Rwandan students.The first activity is How Genocide Starts, which addresses…
Friday, April 1, 2016
Remembering and Recognizing Genocide
April is Genocide Awareness Month, a time to reflect on atrocities of the past while ensuring that we avoid acts of mass murder in the future. The urgency of this mandate was highlighted just weeks…
Friday, April 1, 2016
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