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Detroit Philanthropists Honor USC Shoah Foundation Board of Councilors Member Mickey Shapiro
When asked where he gets his generosity of spirit, Mickey Shapiro, USC Shoah Foundation Board of Councilors member, credits his parents, Holocaust survivors Sara and Asa Shapiro, and the deep respect…
Thursday, December 21, 2017
New Dimensions in Testimony on NPR
(From left to right: Renée Firestone, Sam Harris, Madame Xia Shuqin, and Pinchas Gutter)
New Dimensions in TestimonySM has been a work of passion for USC Shoah Foundation since 2010. After…
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies (Summary)
Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies
October 23-24, 2017
“Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies” was the first international conference bringing the fields of digital humanities…
Monday, December 18, 2017
A Mosaic of Memory: The Nanjing Massacre 80 Years On
Eighty years ago this week, Japanese troops marched into Nanjing, then capital city of China, and began a six week brutal attack on the Chinese civilian population. Those who had not managed to…
Saturday, December 16, 2017
A Digital Genocide Archive for the Future
If ever there was a research vision for USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, it would be that scholars from around the world, including those from a wide range of disciplines use the…
Friday, December 15, 2017
The first in a series of educational activities launches in partnership with the Armenian General Benevolent Union
USC Shoah Foundation launched the first in a series of educational activities developed in partnership with the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU). The series incorporates testimony of Armenian…
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Call for Applications: 2018-2019 International Teaching Fellowship
International Teaching Fellowship
Academic Year 2018-2019
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites proposals for its 2018-2019 International Teaching Fellowship…
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Irina Rebrova Lecture Summary
Irina Rebrova (Center for Research on Antisemitism, Technical University, Berlin)
2017-2018 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow
“The Role of Oral History Interviews in Regional…
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Geraldien von Frijtag Lecture Summary
Geraldien von Frijtag (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
2017-2018 Center Research Fellow
“Being and Belonging: Jewish-Gentile Relations in the Occupied Netherlands Through the Lens of a…
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Alexander Hinton Lecture Summary
Alexander Hinton (Rutgers University, Newark)
"Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer"
November 2, 2017
Renowned anthropologist Alexander Hinton gave a public lecture at the…
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
First Mandarin-Language New Dimensions in Testimony Exhibit Premieres at Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall
On the 80th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre today, the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing, China, debuted its permanent exhibition of New Dimensions in Testimony (NDT), USC Shoah…
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
ITeach in Łódź on New IWitness Activity About Diary of Rywka Lipszyc
USC Shoah Foundation launched one of its newest Polish-language IWitness activities with an ITeach professional development seminar at Ian Kasprowicz High School in Łódź, Poland last weekend.
The…
Monday, December 11, 2017
In Memory of Alice Lok Cahana
We at USC Shoah Foundation are saddened to hear of the passing of our beloved friend, Holocaust survivor and renowned artist Alice Lok Cahana, who passed away on November 28 at age 88. Through her…
Monday, December 11, 2017
Survivors and Liberators Reunite at Dachau in "The Liberators: Why We Fought"
There is a scene in the documentary The Liberators: Why We Fought that has captured the hearts of millions of viewers around the world.
Holocaust survivor Joshua Kauffman reunites with Daniel…
Friday, December 8, 2017
Iberoamericana University in Mexico City Opens Visual History Archive Access Site
Iberoamericana University in Mexico City is the first university in Latin America to gain full access to the Visual History Archive.
Through the university’s subscription with ProQuest, students,…
Thursday, December 7, 2017
“Teaching About Genocide” Educator Resource Launches on Echoes and Reflections
Echoes and Reflections drew its biggest audience ever last week for a webinar introducing its new resource for educators, Teaching About Genocide.
With an audience of 75 participants, the…
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Follow-Up Quantitative Study to Examine Impact of Teachers’ Repeated Use of IWitness
In a new quantitative study, USC Shoah Foundation will evaluate how teachers’ familiarity with the IWitness educational website impacts implementation and students’ learning outcomes. It’s the first…
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Glendale Community Excited to Learn About USC Shoah Foundation at Public Presentation
Over 85 members of the Glendale, Calif. community attended a presentation organized by the Glendale Public Library on Oct. 26 about the Visual History Archive’s Armenian Genocide testimony…
Monday, December 4, 2017
Wolf Gruner Earns Three Awards for New Book on Anti-Jewish Persecution in Bohemia and Moravia
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research is celebrating the work of its Director Wolf Gruner, whose most recent book Die Judenverfolgung im Protektorat Böhmen/Mähren. Lokale…
Friday, December 1, 2017
When Nazis Are Normal
The day after Thanksgiving, the New York Times published an article called “In America’s Heartland, the Nazi Sympathizer Next Door,” by Richard Fausset. It profiles Tony Hovater, a 29-year-old far…
Friday, December 1, 2017
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
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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