News By Year and Month

New IWitness Activity Explores Homecoming after the Holocaust

The critically acclaimed 2017 Hungarian film 1945 is the subject of a new English-language IWitness activity, 1945 – Homecoming. Based on a short story by Hungarian writer Szántó T. Gábor,…
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Renowned Scholar Lucette Valensi Records Interview for Middle East and North Africa Collection

Mark Cohen interviews Lucette Valensi for USC Shoah Foundation's MENA Collection Lucette Valensi, who lived through World War II in…
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

USC Shoah Foundation Records Interviews of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh

USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith and Director of Global Initiatives Karen Jungblut traveled to Bangladesh over the week of Thanksgiving to record interviews with Rohingya…
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Can the Rohingya Outcasts Return?

The announcement of a deal between Myanmar and Bangladesh which will allow the repatriation of the Rohingya may sound like good news. Here is why it is not. In late August, the Myanmar…
Saturday, November 25, 2017

Scholars Consider Ethics, Possibilities, and Critiques of New Dimensions in Testimony at Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies Conference

“Is it appropriate to ask elderly people hundreds of disconnected questions about the most traumatic moment of their lives?” “What are the physical and psychological consequences of enduring five…
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Center Fellow Geraldien von Frijtag Sheds Light on Jews and Gentiles in the Netherlands

Think of the Holocaust in the Netherlands and one story immediately comes to mind for most people: Anne Frank and her family hiding in an apartment concealed behind a bookcase, relying on the…
Monday, November 20, 2017

Friends of Yad Vashem in Panama Plan Integration of IWitness Into Educational Resources

USC Shoah Foundation is rounding out its Latin American partnerships with Friends of Yad Vashem, Panama. Five members of the educational nonprofit started working with USC Shoah Foundation education…
Friday, November 17, 2017

Holocaust Survivor Paula Lebovics To Speak to Students in Facebook Live Broadcast

When Paula Lebovics leaves a room after speaking, she leaves a motto too – “silence is not an option.” A survivor of a ghetto, the concentration camp Birkenau and the permanent separation from much…
Thursday, November 16, 2017

USC Shoah Foundation Launches Fifth Annual IWitness Video Challenge

Learn More Students are invited to demonstrate how testimony inspires them to counter hate in the IWitness Video Challenge, USC Shoah Foundation’s annual contest that offers finalists up to …
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

IWitness to be Exhibited at NYC School Library System Fall Conference

Librarians from New York City schools will have the opportunity to learn about IWitness at their 2017 annual fall conference on November 14. The theme of this year’s conference, hosted by the New…
Friday, November 10, 2017

Teach with “The Promise” on IWitness

View The Promise Resources IWitness has gathered a variety of multimedia resources to help teachers teach and students learn about the new film The Promise, a historical fiction film that conveys…
Thursday, November 9, 2017

Partners from Guatemala and Chile Collaborate with IWitness on New Spanish-Language Content

Staff from Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala (FAFG), Museo Interactivo Judío de Chile (Interactive Jewish Museum of Chile) and Instituto Internacional de Aprendizaje para la…
Tuesday, November 7, 2017

PastFORWARD “Liberation” Broadcast Launches Today on Xfinity

Visit Liberation Microsite For the fourth consecutive year, USC Shoah Foundation is partnering with Comcast Xfinity to offer a special on-demand broadcast free to Xfinity subscribers. The content…
Monday, November 6, 2017

Boris Adjemian Lecture Summary

Boris Adjemian (AGBU Nubar Library, Paris​) "Armenian Genocide Survivor Testimonies and the Evolution of Their Use​" October 16, 2017 Historian Boris Adjemian gave a public…
Friday, November 3, 2017

Alexander Hinton Delves into Mind of Khmer Rouge Torturer in Lecture at USC

How does a beloved, brilliant math teacher turn into one of the biggest perpetrators of the Cambodian Genocide? There is no simple answer to this question. But in his lecture at USC Shoah…
Friday, November 3, 2017

Kori Street is Educator-in-Residence at Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre’s Holocaust Education Week

USC Shoah Foundation Senior Director of Programs and Operations Kori Street is in Toronto this week to serve as the 2017 Educator-in-Residence at the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education…
Thursday, November 2, 2017

Me Too: Stories of Sexual Violence in the Visual History Archive

About four years ago, still in high school and bussing tables at my first job, I found out that management hands you bigger tips at the end of the night when they see the big table in the corner…
Thursday, November 2, 2017

American University of Paris Hosts International Conference on the Visual History Archive

Scholars including Christopher Browning and Jeffrey Shandler gathered at the American University of Paris Oct. 26-27, 2017, to share their research projects – all of which utilize the Visual History…
Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Call for Applications: 2018-2019 Research Fellowships for PhD Candidates

Call for Applications from PhD Candidates Greenberg Research Fellowship Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson…
Wednesday, November 1, 2017