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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
Alex Hinton To Give Lecture on Duch, Math Teacher Turned Khmer Rouge Torturer
Kang Kek Iew begins as a math teacher, posted in the 1960s to a secondary school in the Kampong Cham Province in Cambodia. He’s known there for his commitment to his pupils.
In 2010, well after he…
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
University of Southern Denmark Students Present IWitness Videos
After a semester-long study of Holocaust survivor narratives, four students in Professor Therkel Straede’s class at the University of Southern Denmark presented the short videos they made in IWitness…
Monday, October 30, 2017
Board of Councilors Member Andy Friendly Publishes Memoir “Willing to Be Lucky: Adventures in Life and Television”
Andy Friendly was raised by a television news legend, produced groundbreaking programs and has worked with some of the most influential people in Hollywood.
But in his new memoir, Willing to be…
Friday, October 27, 2017
Panel discusses social networks at Auschwitz, GPS testimonies in Cambodia, mapping of plundered Jewish homes in Paris
Due largely to the one-on-one format of modern survivor testimony, we tend to think of Holocaust survivors as having lived in concentration camps alone together.
That is, the widely accepted…
Thursday, October 26, 2017
First Permanent New Dimensions in Testimony Exhibit Opens at Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
Sunday, Oct. 29 marks the official opening of Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center (IHMEC)’s Take a Stand Center, which includes the first-ever permanent museum exhibition of New…
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Scholars Share Digital Visualization Possibilities and Challenges at Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies Conference
Gone are the days when students and scholars studied history – and shared their findings – solely through books, written documents, and maybe a few archival photos. Now, digital tools allow…
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Pokemon Go, YouTube and Trip Advisor at Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies Conference
Scholars Maria Zalewska, Timothy Williams and Tomasz Łysak delved into some of the newest ways genocide museum visitors are sharing their experiences on social media in the panel discussion …
Monday, October 23, 2017
IHRA Convenes Strategic Planning Group
From 17-18 October the political and expert representatives of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Strategic Planning Group gathered in Berlin to finalize the organization’s first…
Friday, October 20, 2017
Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies Conference Preview: “Mapping Social Networks and Personal Experiences”
The 1:30-3:30 p.m. panel on the second day of the Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies conference at USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research will gather three scholars who create…
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Honoring Holocaust Survivor Authors for National Book Month
Though USC Shoah Foundation specializes in maintaining thousands of recorded testimonies in its Visual History Archive, many of the Institute’s interviewees have also published memoirs and…
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies Conference Preview: “Digital Visualization of Holocaust Spaces”
The opening panel of the second day of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s Digital Holocaust Studies conference will focus on the innovative ways researchers are…
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Lecture: Armenian Genocide Survivor Testimonies Undervalued for Decades by Historians
In the immediate aftermath of the Armenian genocide, thousands of Armenian survivors recorded testimonies detailing the atrocities they witnessed at the hands of the Ottoman Turks during World War I…
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies Conference Preview: “Social Media, Genocide and Augmented Reality”
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s academic conference “Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies” gets fully underway with a panel about how social media and augmented reality…
Monday, October 16, 2017
Student Leaders Participate in First-Ever Intercollegiate Diversity Congress Summit at USC Shoah Foundation
Two dozen student body leaders from across the country will descend on USC Shoah Foundation on Friday and Saturday to take part in the Institute’s first-ever convening of the Intercollegiate…
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Monday Lecture: “Armenian Genocide Survivor Testimonies and the Evolution of Their Use”
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the USC Institute of Armenian Studies will co-host a public lecture by Boris Adjemian, director of Paris’s AGBU Nubar Library, on Monday…
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Hungarian Office of Educational Rights Displays Traveling Exhibition of Students’ Art Inspired By Testimony
Hungarian Officer for Educational Rights Dr Lajos Aáry-Tamás was so inspired by the artwork created by students for USC Shoah Foundation’s annual art project that he became the first to host a…
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Two New IWitness Activities Align with Echoes & Reflections Units
A new Video Building Activity, “The Power of Propaganda,” and a Mini Quest, “The Rights of Children,” have been published on IWitness. Each activity is also aligned with the Echoes & …
Friday, October 6, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation Resources Shine Light on DACA Debate
As news continues to develop about the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, educators can draw on resources from USC Shoah Foundation to help humanize the struggles…
Thursday, October 5, 2017
CTO Sam Gustman to Speak at University of Michigan Bicentennial Symposium
USC Shoah Foundation Chief Technology Officer Sam Gustman will speak about his work at the University of Michigan School of Information’s Bicentennial Symposium on Friday, Oct. 6.
The symposium…
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Look for USC Shoah Foundation at Future of Storytelling Festival and Summit
The Future of Storytelling (FOST) Festival and Summit in Snug Harbor, New York City this week will include a talk by USC Shoah Foundation Chief Technology Officer Sam Gustman as well as exhibits of…
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Christian Delage Lecture Summary
Christian Delage (Institut D’Histoire Du Temps Présent, Paris)
"The Place of the Witness: From the Holocaust to the November 13th Attacks in Paris"
August 31, 2017
Historian and…
Tuesday, October 3, 2017