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"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
Back to School With IWitness 2018: Contemporary Antisemitism Testimonies
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.
Testimonies from the Visual History Archive’s newest collection…
Friday, August 11, 2017
Former Greenberg Fellow Jared McBride to Present Visual History Archive at Appalachian State University
Jared McBride, the inaugural Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow at USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, will give a lecture about his work with the Visual History…
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Highlighting Indigenous Populations in Research and Testimony
On the occasion of this year’s International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Martha Stroud, Research Program Officer at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research,…
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Center for Advanced Genocide Research to Co-Sponsor “Filming the Camps” Exhibit at LA Museum of the Holocaust
Museumgoers in Los Angeles will have the opportunity to see the traveling exhibit “Filming the Camps: From Hollywood to Nuremberg” when it comes to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust from August…
Monday, August 7, 2017
Third Workshop for Advanced PhD Candidates Summary
Third Workshop for Advanced PhD Candidates from North American Universities and Israel who are working on the Holocaust (Summary)
June 25 to 29, 2017
The ‘Third Workshop for Advanced PhD…
Friday, August 4, 2017
International Teaching Fellow and Texas A&M Teaching Fellow Discuss Teaching with Testimony in Facebook Live Interview
Two of USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s 2017-2018 teaching fellows shared the courses they’re developing and how testimony impacts their work as scholars and teachers…
Thursday, August 3, 2017
Testimonies Train Teachers to Conduct Cultural Sensitivity Workshops in Ukraine
Educators learned how Holocaust survivor testimonies from the Visual History Archive can help them teach early conflict prevention and cultural sensitivity at a workshop led by USC Shoah Foundation’s…
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
The History and Significance of August 2, Roma Holocaust Memorial Day
On August 2, 1944, nearly 3,000 Roma and Sinti women, men and children were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Seventy-one years later, the date was formally declared “Roma…
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
The role of teaching critical thinking in the days of post-truth
What are the pillars of modern democracy and how can democracy be defended in days of crisis?
These questions keep coming to me these days, when Poland faces a really serious crisis that so far has…
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Junior Interns Respond to Hungarian Prime Minister’s Praise of Hungary's Antisemitic Leader During WWII
USC Shoah Foundation’s Junior Interns witnessed a disturbing example of modern antisemitism firsthand during their trip to Budapest in June. And they have something to say about it.
On June 21,…
Monday, July 31, 2017
Back to School with IWitness 2018: Updates to Video Editor WeVideo
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 is enhancing its cloud-based video-editing service…
Friday, July 28, 2017
Holocaust Educator Network Seminars Across America Feature IWitness
IWitness was a featured component of three training sessions hosted by the Holocaust Educators Network (HEN) this month.
Supported by the Memorial Library, the Manhattan-based Holocaust…
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Lectures and Conferences at Center for Advanced Genocide Research This Fall
With the start of the fall semester just a month away, start marking your calendar for USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s exciting schedule of lectures, academic conference…
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Deborah Lipstadt to Speak at USC Shoah Foundation Community Event in Aspen
Acclaimed writer and Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt will be a special guest at an evening of conversation with USC Shoah Foundation at Aspen Jewish Community Center Wednesday, August 9 at 5 p.m…
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Inaugural “Teach for Ukraine” Training Program Includes IWitness Workshop
Teach for Ukraine – a two-year teaching program similar to Teach for America – began training its first cohort last week, and part of that training included a workshop on IWitness and constructivist…
Monday, July 24, 2017
Visual History Archive Update Includes Guest Login and New Testimonies
The Visual History Archive version 6.7.3.1 was released today, adding a new feature for users and testimonies from two new experience groups.
Visitors to the Visual History Archive at full access…
Friday, July 21, 2017
Back to School with IWitness 2017: IWitness Student Leaders
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 launched a new portal, Student Leaders, in June,…
Thursday, July 20, 2017
How I learned not to underestimate young students
A friend asked me whether I could help her with something. She knew I work with testimonies of Holocaust survivors in education and thought I could help her. We met over a coffee in a hipster place…
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Renowned Armenian Genocide Scholar Richard Hovannisian Records Interview for Visual History Archive
After guiding USC Shoah Foundation through the process of integrating its first-ever Armenian Genocide testimonies into the Visual History Archive over the past five years, UCLA Professor Emeritus…
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Introducing USC Shoah Foundation’s Armenian Genocide Collection to London Community
Frieda Kahn, back left, introduces USC Shoah Foundation to members of London's Armenian community
Members of…
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Two Thousand Testimonies Added to Visual History Archive, Thousands of New Students and Teachers Using IWitness in 2016-2017 Fiscal Year
A comparison of USC Shoah Foundation’s fiscal year-end stats from 2016 and 2017 reveals the Institute’s ever-increasing impact around the world.
From July 2016 to July 2017, 2,000 testimonies were…
Monday, July 17, 2017
Sixth Annual Teaching with Testimony Master Teacher Program Kicks off in Budapest
With 21 participants and one observer, USC Shoah Foundation’s Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century Master Teacher program in Budapest got off to its biggest start yet earlier this month.
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
Undergraduates to Develop Search Personalization for Visual History Archive in Annual UCLA Program
Fron left: Kira Parker, Rachel A. Lewis, Eric Gao, Lucia Li, Ehsan Ebrahimzadeh
Four undergraduate students from…
Wednesday, July 12, 2017