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Announcing the Semifinalists of the 2017 IWitness Video Challenge
More students and teachers than ever before completed the IWitness Video Challenge this year.
With four times the number of entries than it received just last year, the judges were faced…
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation Designs New Online Indexing Training Course
USC Shoah Foundation is putting the finishing touches on a brand-new online course that will enable the Institute to teach scholars and staff around the world how to index testimonies in the Visual…
Friday, May 26, 2017
Visual History Archive Workshops Around the World This Summer
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research staff will be traveling around the world this summer to host academic workshops about the Visual History Archive.
On May 29, Academic…
Thursday, May 25, 2017
IWitness Teacher Ambassadors Host IWitness Workshop at Saint-Vincent Muhoza School in Rwanda
Two teachers who have been trained by USC Shoah Foundation on how to use IWitness passed on their knowledge to their colleagues at Saint-Vincent Muhoza Secondary School in Musanze, Rwanda, on May 1.
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Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Echoes and Reflections Debuts New Self-Guided Online Professional Development Course
Educators can now register for Echoes and Reflections’ first-ever self-guided online professional development class.
Echoes and Reflections’ other online professional development programs are…
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
IWitness to be Presented at Inforum Conference on Professional Information Resources in Prague
The 23rd annual Inforum conference in Prague, Czech Republic, next Tuesday will feature a presentation on IWitness, given by Martin Šmok, USC Shoah Foundation’s Senior International Program…
Monday, May 22, 2017
Board of Councilors Chair Stephen A. Cozen to Receive Inaugural Drexel Hillel Leadership Award
One of USC Shoah Foundation’s fiercest supporters will be honored with a leadership award from Hillel at Drexel University this Monday, May 22.
Drexel Hillel will present Cozen with its inaugural…
Friday, May 19, 2017
Support USC Shoah Foundation on AmazonSmile
Amazon customers around the world have the opportunity to support USC Shoah Foundation even as they shop online.
AmazonSmile allows customers to select a charitable organization that will receive…
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Call for Papers: New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison
Call for Papers:
International Conference: "New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison"
November 4-6, 2018 at the University of Southern…
Thursday, May 18, 2017
IWitness Video Challenge Submissions Quadruple for 4th Annual Contest
More students and teachers than ever before are doing the IWitness Video Challenge.
The contest, now in its fourth year, received four times the number of entries it received just last year.
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017
USC Faculty Respond to Testimony in “Reflections on Respect” Video Series
Six distinguished University of Southern California faculty participated in a series of videos released during USC Shoah Foundation’s 100 Days to Inspire Respect program in which they watch clips of…
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Commemorating Gino Bartali
The Israeli Cycling Academy today is honoring the heroic actions of famed Giro d’Italia champion Gino Bartali during the Holocaust with a commemorative ride through Italy from Florence to Assisi.
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Monday, May 15, 2017
Vox Media’s Code Conference to Feature New Dimensions in Testimony and “The Last Goodbye”
USC Shoah Foundation will present its interactive media projects to some of the brightest minds in technology at the prestigious Code Conference, hosted by Vox Media, in Rancho Palos Verdes,…
Friday, May 12, 2017
First Genocide Prevention Research Fellow Studies Sexual Violence During Guatemalan Genocide
The first-ever recipient of USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s Genocide Prevention Research Fellowship is Vanessa Belén Dorda Meneses, a PhD candidate from the University of…
Thursday, May 11, 2017
In Memory of Curt Lowens
USC Shoah Foundation is saddened to learn of the passing of Holocaust survivor Curt Lowens, a wartime hero who became a well-known character actor when he moved to the United States. He was 91.
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Thursday, May 11, 2017
IWitness Offers Summer Webinars for Teachers
Educators can continue their professional development over the summer with a series of IWitness webinars hosted by USC Shoah Foundation. Each webinar focuses on a specific aspect of teaching…
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Survivors Share Stories, Urge Action in Genocide Awareness Month Panel Discussion
Eva Hilton, Zenon Neumark, Aracely Garrido and translator
Holocaust survivor Zenon Neumark and…
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Omer Bartov Gives Shapiro Scholar Lecture on "Anatomy of a Genocide"
The town of Buczacz is part of Ukraine now, situated between two graveyards – two mass graves – with a living population hovering at around 12,500, if you mind the 2001 Ukrainian census. This town,…
Monday, May 8, 2017
Omer Bartov Discusses Research, Testimony and Future of Holocaust Scholarship in Facebook Live Interview
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s 2017 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence Omer Bartov began his residence today with a Facebook Live interview about his…
Friday, May 5, 2017
Memory in Trutnov
The sun was setting when we pulled up to a fenced-in lot behind which stood a crumbling redbrick textile factory. There was a sign on the front gate that read “For Sale.” It wasn’t the kind of…
Friday, May 5, 2017
Seven New Hungarian-Language Activities Published on IWitness
Last week, USC Shoah Foundation’s education department uploaded a set of new activities to their IWitness activities page, all in Hungarian and part of the Institute’s efforts to globalize the…
Thursday, May 4, 2017
IWitness Partnership with Memory Project Productions Connects Art and Testimony
USC Shoah Foundation has partnered with The Memory Project Productions to debut a new IWitness activity and incorporate testimony into the organization’s curriculum.
The Memory Project Productions…
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Using The Whole Box of Crayons
Drag Queen, talented businessman and my icon RuPaul once stated, “If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell are you going to love somebody else?”
In times of great hardships, I often struggled…
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Illinois Holocaust Museum Pilots Three New Testimonies from New Dimensions in Testimony
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center (IHMEC) this winter became the first museum to pilot the next three New Dimensions in Testimony interviews after the original testimony of Pinchas…
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
IWitness Partners with Journeys in Film for “Defiant Requiem” Educational Resources
IWitness now offers multimedia educational resources for the documentary Defiant Requiem, in partnership with the nonprofit Journeys in Film.
Journeys in Film develops and publishes (free of cost…
Monday, May 1, 2017
Their Legacy, Our Responsibility
One would think that the grandson of four Polish Holocaust survivors would have an in-depth knowledge of the Shoah, but it was quite the contrary. The Holocaust was a topic that was never discussed…
Monday, May 1, 2017
Alexander Korb Lecture Summary
Alexander Korb (University of Leicester)
"Collaborators: Exploring Participation in the Holocaust by Non-Germans in Eastern Europe"
April 20, 2017
Alexander Korb, the 2016-2017 Center…
Saturday, April 29, 2017
Summer 2016 Fellows Presentation (Summary)
"USC Research With Testimonies: Featuring the Center's Summer 2016 Research Fellows"
Nisha Kale, Erin Mizrahi, Piotr Florczyk, Beatrice Mousli (University of Southern California)
April 4,…
Saturday, April 29, 2017
Looking Back on 100 Days to Inspire Respect
As USC Shoah Foundation’s 100 Days to Inspire Respect program comes to an end, take a look back at the impact and scope of this unique educational initiative.
Beginning January 20, coinciding with…
Friday, April 28, 2017
Yale’s Kathryn Brackney to Research “Otherworldliness” of Holocaust as 2017-2018 Katz Research Fellow
The second annual Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies will be Kathryn Brackney, a Ph.D. candidate in history at Yale University whose dissertation will explore the “otherworldliness”…
Thursday, April 27, 2017