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"100 Days to Inspire Respect" Week 11: Countering Violence and Violent Extremism
Every Friday, the following week’s 100 Days to Inspire Respect educational resources will be previewed.
Entering its eleventh week of operation, USC Shoah Foundation’s 100 Days to Inspire Respect…
Friday, March 31, 2017
Teaching with Testimony for Genocide Awareness Month
Throughout history, April has unfortunately been a significant month in the planning and implementation of genocide. In April 1915, the Ottoman government rounded up and arrested Armenian…
Friday, March 31, 2017
Advance “Finding Oscar” Screenings in New York and Los Angeles This April
Before Finding Oscar is released in theaters across the country on April 21, USC Shoah Foundation will host three free screenings and Q&As with the filmmakers and representatives from the…
Thursday, March 30, 2017
USC Digital Journalism Class Demos New Dimensions in Testimony
The questions were tentative at first, but came faster and faster as the students became more comfortable speaking to someone who wasn’t even there.
“How do you feel about the Nazis?”
“Do…
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Celebrations in New York and Los Angeles Mark Completion of Integration of Armenian Film Foundation Testimonies
USC Shoah Foundation on Monday Mar. 27 and on Friday Mar. 31 celebrated the completion of a years-long endeavor to integrate hundreds of testimonies from the Armenian Genocide into the Institute’s…
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Stereotyping and Perspective
As a young Latino, store employees pretending to be doing a job as they watch me shop is almost expected. The feeling of walking into a Walgreens and an employee looking daggers into you, as if you…
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Summer Fellowship Applications Due March 31
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research would like to remind anyone interested in three research fellowship opportunities – two for this upcoming summer, one for the 2017-2018…
Monday, March 27, 2017
"100 Days to Inspire Respect" Week 10: What Does Courage Look Like?
This week, USC Shoah Foundation enters its tenth week of the 100 Days to Inspire Respect campaign, which aims to educate secondary students and their teachers about hatred and intolerance using the…
Friday, March 24, 2017
Application Open for Sixth Annual Master Teacher Program in Hungary
Hungarian teachers have developed fascinating and impactful testimony-based class projects and lesson plans as part of USC Shoah Foundation’s Master Teacher professional development program for the…
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Teachers Reunite for Inspiring Master Teacher Follow Up Session in Poland
Polish educators shared the innovative ways they have used testimony in their classrooms since they completed USC Shoah Foundation’s Master Teacher program last year, at a follow up session in March…
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Visual History Archive Workshops Coming to Northeastern University, Keene State College and University of Pennsylvania
Students and faculty at three colleges on the East Coast are invited to attend introductory…
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
New Dimensions in Testimony Presented at Jewish Funders Network International Conference
USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith lent his expertise, and New Dimensions in Testimony, to a panel on technology at Jewish Funders Network (JFN)’s annual international conference…
Monday, March 20, 2017
“100 Days to Inspire Respect” Week 9: Cross-Cultural Understanding
Holocaust survivor Renee Firestone with students at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy
Every Friday, the following week’s …
Friday, March 17, 2017
Holocaust Memorial Centre in Budapest Hosts Exhibit Based on Testimony of Survivor Katalin Bárány
On January 27, 2017, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Holocaust Memorial Centre in Budapest debuted a new exhibition that draws on the Visual History Archive testimony of survivor Katalin Bárány.
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Thursday, March 16, 2017
Planning for Forthcoming Program on Contemporary Antisemitism Underway at Board of Councilors’ Meetings
USC Shoah Foundation’s Board of Councilors is holding its biannual meeting this week to discuss current programs and future goals of the Institute. Included in those meetings will be discussion of a…
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Former Research Fellow Kosal Path Publishes Article on Cambodian Genocide Perpetrators
Kosal Path, 2012 Institute Research Fellow at USC Shoah Foundation, has co-authored a new article in the Journal of Asian Studies based on his research of Khmer Rouge cadres during the Cambodian…
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Three Tips to Integrate the IWitness Video Challenge into your Classroom
USC Shoah Founation’s IWitness Video Challenge is a unique opportunity for students to showcase how they are inspired to make a difference in their community. The challenge, which will award $10,000…
Monday, March 13, 2017
First Ever Holocaust Survivor Testimony in Room-Scale Virtual Reality to World Premiere at 2017 Tribeca Film Festival
Virtual reality lab LightShed, in partnership with USC Shoah Foundation, MPC VR, OTOY, Inc., and HERE BE DRAGONS, proudly announce the world premiere of the first-ever Holocaust survivor testimony in…
Monday, March 13, 2017
"100 Days to Inspire Respect" Week 8: Immigrants and Refugees
Survivors of five genocides, clockwise from bottom left: Edith Umugiraneza (Rwanda), Dario Gabbai (Holocaust), Sara Pol-Lim (Cambodia), Aracely Garrido (Guatemala), Yevigne Salibian …
Friday, March 10, 2017
Greenberg Fellow Researches Post-War Jewish Life in East Germany
Katja Schatte, USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s 2016-17 Greenberg…
Thursday, March 9, 2017
Echoes and Reflections and IWitness 2017 Webinar Schedule
Educators have a new slate of webinars to choose from in 2017 to enhance their knowledge and skills for using Echoes and Reflections and IWitness in the classroom.
The webinars are scheduled for…
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
100th Anniversary of the February Revolution
The February Revolution began 100 years ago in Petrograd, then the capital of the Russian Empire, modern day St. Petersburg. Bread riots and protests developed into a mass demonstration and…
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation Co-Sponsors Screening of Documentary “Bogdan’s Journey”
USC Shoah Foundation is co-sponsoring an advance screening of the new Polish documentary Bogdan’s Journey in Los Angeles on Wednesday, March 8.
All are welcome to attend the screening at 8 p.m at…
Monday, March 6, 2017
“100 Days to Inspire Respect” Week 7: Women/Women’s Rights
Every Friday, the following week’s 100 Days to Inspire Respect educational resources will be previewed.
The theme of the 7th week of “100 Days to Inspire Respect” is “Women/Women’s…
Friday, March 3, 2017
Lee Ann Fujii Lecture (Summary)
Lee Ann Fujii, PhD (University of Toronto)
"Everyday Forms of Resistance: Evidence From the Killing Fields of Bosnia, Rwanda, and the United States"
February 21, 2017
Professor Lee Ann Fujii…
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Teresa Walch Lecture (Summary)
Teresa Walch (University of California, San Diego)
"Excluding Jews from their Homeland and Erasing ‘Jewish Spaces’ in Nazi Germany”
February 9, 2017
Teresa Walch, the 2016-2017 Inaugural…
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Educators at Lauder School of Prague Attend IWitness Seminar
Educators from the Ronald Lauder Jewish School in Prague took a day to be educated last month, taking a course generally assigned to their students with USC Shoah Foundation Senior International…
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Stephen Smith Gives Multimedia Presentation to CEOs at YPO EDGE Conference
USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith will introduce 2,500 business executives from around the world to USC Shoah Foundation at Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO)’s annual EDGE…
Wednesday, March 1, 2017