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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 &&nbsp…
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