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The Florida Holocaust Museum Authors IWitness Activity on Holocaust Refugees

Walter Loebenberg Continuing its partnership with USC Shoah Foundation, The Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) education staff have authored an IWitness activity introducing students to the…

Thursday, August 31, 2017

Visual History Archive Workshop at Clark University on September 13

USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research Director Wolf Gruner will give a workshop on how to use the Visual History Archive at Clark University’s Strassler Center for Holocaust and…

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

University of Southern Denmark Students Construct Videos on IWitness

Longtime Visual History Archive user Professor Therkel Straede took his use of testimony one step further last semester by giving his students an assignment to construct their own videos in IWitness,…

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Barbie Zelizer Named 2017-2018 Rutman Teaching Fellow

Barbie Zelizer, the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the 2017-2018 Rutman Teaching Fellow by the…

Monday, August 28, 2017

The Human Spirit is Indestructible

The communications team, from left: Rob Kuznia, Deanna Hendrick, Josh Grossberg, Holly Blackwelder, Robin Migdol, Jeffrey Langham Through testimony I have realized that the human spirit is…

Monday, August 28, 2017

“Research Week” Scholars Launch Project to Study Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors in Latin America

The 2017-2018 Interdisciplinary Research Week at USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research has come to a close, but for the seven scholars who were awarded this year’s fellowship,…

Friday, August 25, 2017

Call for Proposals: "Diversity and Inclusion Through Testimony" Grants for USC Faculty

USC Shoah Foundation – Institute for Visual History and Education and USC Center for Excellence in Teaching welcome proposals from faculty who will integrate USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History…

Thursday, August 24, 2017

Central European Educators Attend Master Teacher Workshop at USC Shoah Foundation

Three graduates of USC Shoah Foundation’s Master Teacher program in Central Europe traveled to Los Angeles this week for additional training to take their use of IWitness and testimony to the next…

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

"Research in Industrial Projects" Students Present Findings to USC Shoah Foundation Staff

Another group of talented students has completed their applied math research project as part of UCLA Institute for Applied Mathematics (IPAM)’s Research in Industrial Projects (RIPS) summer program,…

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

‘Stronger Than Hate’ Initiative: USC Shoah Foundation to Offer Resources and Training to Counter Hate

The violent antisemitic and racist hatred seen in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this month combined Nazi ideology with white supremacy and drew from the dark historical legacies of the Holocaust…

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Back to School with IWitness 2018: IWitness University

In this series, we take a closer look at the new features and resources coming to IWitness in time for the 2017-2018 school year. IWitness will launch its new IWitness University landing page on…

Friday, August 18, 2017

Hate Has No Place in Our Future

By Blake Humphrey with Sara E. Brown When I visited Nazi death camps in 2014, I viewed spaces filled with the spirits of so many lives lost and witnessed the end result of evil, intolerance,…

Thursday, August 17, 2017

“The Last Goodbye” VR Film to Compete at Venice Film Festival

The Last Goodbye, the virtual reality film about Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter produced in partnership with USC Shoah Foundation, will have its European premiere at the 74th Venice…

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Chief Technology Officer Sam Gustman to Speak at Future of Storytelling Summit

One year after the Future of Storytelling Festival exhibited USC Shoah Foundation’s New Dimensions in Testimony, the Institute’s Chief Technology Officer Sam Gustman has been invited back to give a…

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Former Research Fellow Jeffrey Shandler Publishes New Book on Visual History Archive: “Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age”

Four years after completing a visiting fellowship at USC Shoah Foundation and seven years after he was first introduced to the Visual History Archive, Professor Jeffrey Shandler’s extensive research…

Monday, August 14, 2017