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Rwandan and American Students Collaborate on Bystander Effect Activity
One class was in Charlotte, North Carolina. The other, in Kigali, Rwanda. But on Friday, March 4, nearly 60 students came together via Skype to talk about what they learned from IWitness’s Bystander…
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Commemorating Women's History Month with IWitness
For Women’s History Month, bring the unique voices of women who survived or stood up against some of the worst atrocities of the 20th century into your classroom. Facing History is partnering with…
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Partnership with ProQuest to Increase Access to Visual History Archive
In the first step of an ambitious multiyear plan to significantly broaden access and meet growing demand for the world’s largest archive of genocide testimony, USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute…
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Polish Educators Present Testimony-Based Lessons at Teaching with Testimony Follow-Up
Eleven new lesson plans and long term educational projects were developed during the fourth Polish edition of the Teaching with Testimony program.The 2015 cohort returned for their follow up session…
Friday, March 4, 2016
Application Open for Fifth Annual “Teaching with Testimony” in Hungary
Educators in Hungary are encouraged to apply for this year’s Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century program. The deadline is April 3, 2016.This year marks the fifth anniversary of the program in…
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Teaching Fellow Alina Bothe Discusses Testimony as “Virtual In-Between of Memory”
Educators, students, scholars and general users of the Visual History Archive all tell the same story: After watching a genocide survivor or witness’s testimony, they feel like they’ve really “met”…
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Filling in the Silence
Every once in a while, I have a moment when seemingly disconnected ideas collide in peculiar relief, bringing clarity and making sense – admittedly sometimes only to me. I had one of those days…
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
IWitness Adds Activities and Clips in Three New Languages
IWitness is expanding its offerings for non-English speakers.A trio of new activities have been published in three different languages: an Information Quest about Roman Kent (Polish), Homecoming:…
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Julia Werner Lecture (Summary)
Julia Werner (Humboldt University, Berlin)“Beyond the Pictorial Frame: The Ghettoization of Jews in Poland”February 11, 2016 Left to right: Julia…
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Kiril Feferman Lecture (Summary)
Kiril Feferman, PhD (Israel/Russia)
“Religion and Jewish Survival in the Occupied Soviet Territories”
February 2, 2016
Kiril Feferman, PhD, the 2015-2016 Center Fellow, gave a…
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Czech Students Make Short Films with Testimony
Many high school students enjoy making short, home movies for fun. But in Martin Šmok’s class at the Ronald Lauder Jewish School in…
Monday, February 29, 2016
IWitness Video Challenge 2016: Entering the Contest
Every other week until the submission deadline May 13, 2016, USC Shoah Foundation will share insight about the IWitness Video Challenge.The first step toward winning the IWitness Video Challenge is…
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Schools in Cincinnati and Kentucky Receive First IWitness Workshops
USC Shoah Foundation Regional Consultant Rob Hadley traveled to Cincinnati and Kentucky to lead IWitness workshops with teachers and students. It was the first time either school had been introduced…
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Last Chance to Apply for Greenberg and Katz Research Fellowships
Advanced standing PhD candidates have just five more days to apply for two fellowships at USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research.The application deadline for the Greenberg…
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
ucLADINO Symposium to Include Panel on USC Shoah Foundation
The fifth annual ucLADINO symposium at UCLA will include a panel featuring USC students who have utilized testimony in their research on the Ladino language.Scholars will gather at UCLA March 2 and 3…
Monday, February 22, 2016
Florida Holocaust Museum Partners with USC Shoah Foundation on Education and Access
Students and scholars across Florida will soon be able to access The Florida Holocaust Museum’s digital collections of art, historical objects and first-person testimony. The FHM has signed a three…
Friday, February 19, 2016
Greenberg Fellow Julia Werner Connects Photography to Testimony
From left: Julia Werner, Wolf Gruner, Margee Greenberg, Douglas GreenbergJulia Werner, the 2015/2016 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research…
Thursday, February 18, 2016
“Auschwitz Album” Exhibit Travels to Moscow
A photography exhibit that incorporates testimony from the Visual History Archive is now on display in Moscow following its debut in Prague last spring.The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography in…
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Celebrate Digital Learning Day with USC Shoah Foundation
On Wednesday, Feb. 17, students and educators across the nation will celebrate the intersection of technology and learning, something USC…
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Let's Get Digital: Celebrating Digital Learning Day 2016
Happy Digital Learning Day! Led by Alliance for Excellent Education, Digital Learning Day is an effort to engage students and empower educators through effective use of digital tools…
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Ukrainian Parliament Office Hosts Seminar on "Where Do Human Rights Begin" Teacher's Guide
In January, the office of the Ukrainian ombudsman conducted a seminar for 30 teachers on the best practices of human rights education using USC Shoah Foundation’s multimedia teaching guide, Where Do…
Friday, February 12, 2016
IWitness Adds a Digital Book to Its Resource “Shelf”
IWitness just became a richer resource for students and teachers.IWitness users looking for secondary source material can now use keywords to search The Holocaust and Other Genocides: An Introduction…
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Malach Center for Visual History in Prague Commemorates Six Years of Access to Visual History Archive
A diverse group of guests from NGOs, memory institutions and schools gathered in the heart of historical Prague at the Malach Center for Visual History at Charles University to commemorate its sixth…
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Ukrainian Students Pilot “Arrival at Auschwitz” IWitness Activity
USC Shoah Foundation’s IWitness activity “Arrival at Auschwitz” was piloted in Ukraine last week with 15 students, many of whom had experienced being displaced themselves in the country’s 2014 unrest…
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova Discusses Education and Preventing Extremism in Conversation with Stephen Smith
Ambassador Irina Bokova, director-general of UNESCO, discussed the importance of human rights education in combating radical extremism around the world in a talk with USC Shoah Foundation Executive…
Monday, February 8, 2016
Remembering the Lives Lost
How do we begin to remember the millions of victims of the biggest genocide in human history? How do we echo the gravity of the world’s loss to students? How do we work to create a meaningful moment…
Monday, February 8, 2016
Czech Regional Consultant Gives Lecture at US Embassy in Prague
Martin Šmok, USC Shoah Foundation’s senior international program consultant and regional consultant in Czech Republic, gave his first presentation at the U.S. Embassy in Prague on February 4.Open to…
Friday, February 5, 2016
UNESCO Director General To Speak at USC Shoah Foundation
Ambassador Irina Bokova, director general of UNESCO, will visit USC Shoah Foundation and participate in a public discussion/Q&A on Monday, February 8. The discussion is open to all and will be…
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Center Fellow Discusses Religion and Survival in Occupied Soviet Territories
Kiril Feferman, 2015-16 Fellow at USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, concluded his four-month fellowship with a lecture Feb. 2 at USC about stories of religiously motivated…
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
French Exhibit “Paroles de libérés” Now Available Online
A French-language testimony exhibit that first launched on the ENS Lyon campus last April has been published online.In conjunction with National Day of Remembrance of Deportation held each year in…
Tuesday, February 2, 2016