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Audiences Captivated by USC Shoah Foundation Virtual Reality Projects
Over the past few years, USC Shoah Foundation has embarked upon two interactive media projects which have already emerged as groundbreaking endeavors in the field – the “New Dimensions in Testimony”…
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Survivors to Speak at Genocide Awareness Month Panel Hosted by DEFY Student Organization
Aracely Garrido and Zenon Neumark
USC Shoah Foundation student organization DEFY will host a panel of survivor speakers in…
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Alexander Korb Researches Non-German Perpetrators in Visual History Archive
Just one month into his four-month tenure as USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s 2016-2017 Center Fellow, Alexander Korb has already made new discoveries about how the…
Monday, April 24, 2017
Yom HaShoah: Time for Active Remembrance
At this time of remembrance, I hope I am incorrect in thinking that public awareness of the Shoah is eroding. Information about this act of atrocity is still proliferating, so unawareness clearly…
Friday, April 21, 2017
“100 Days to Inspire Respect” Week 14: Fostering Civic Responsibility
Every Friday, the following week’s 100 Days to Inspire Respect educational resources will be previewed.
For the final week of “100 Days to Inspire Respect,” students will reflect on how…
Friday, April 21, 2017
JFCS San Francisco to Host Yom HaShoah Commemoration
USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith will be the keynote speaker at Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JFCS) Holocaust Center’s annual Yom HaShoah commemoration on Sunday, April…
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Irina Rebrova to Research Holocaust Memory in North Caucasus as 2017-18 Greenberg Fellow
As USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s 2017-2018 Greenberg Research Fellow, Irina Rebrova will study not only the testimonies in the Visual History Archive but also the…
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
“The Last Goodbye” Virtual Reality Testimony Premieres at Tribeca Film Festival
Press Coverage
"The Last Goodbye" is the VR Holocaust Memorial we need today (Engadget)
The Incredible, Urgent Power of Remembering the Holocaust in VR (Wired)
Starting…
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
IWitness Launches Armenian Genocide Resource Page
All of USC Shoah Foundation’s educational resources about the Armenian Genocide can now be…
Monday, April 17, 2017
“100 Days to Inspire Respect” Week 13: Building Resilience
Every Friday, the following week’s 100 Days to Inspire Respect educational resources will be previewed.
For the second to last week of “100 Days to Inspire Respect,” IWitness will offer resources…
Sunday, April 16, 2017
Remembering Holocaust Survivor Helen Colin on Her Birthday
In honor of the birthday and memory of Holocaust survivor Helen Colin on April 15, and in remembrance of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, where she lived until liberation on…
Friday, April 14, 2017
Center Fellow Alexander Korb Discusses Importance of Holocaust Research in Facebook Live Conversation
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s 2016-2017 Center Fellow Alexander Korb spoke about the research he plans to do in the Visual History Archive and the importance of…
Thursday, April 13, 2017
A Soá Alapítványa a Zachor Alapítvánnyal együttműködve filmvetítést, beszélgetést és tanárképzést szervezett az 1945 című film bemutatójának apropóján
A Dél-Kaliforniai Egyetem (USC) Soá Alapítványa április 8-án, Budapesten különleges program keretében mutatta be az 1945 című új, nemzetközi díjnyertes magyar film tanításához készült digitális…
Thursday, April 13, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation Hosts Screening, Discussion and Educator Seminar on Hungarian Film “1945”
USC Shoah Foundation hosted a special event in Budapest on April 8 to prepare Hungarian educators to teach the new, critically acclaimed film 1945.
1945, directed by Ferenc Török and based on a…
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Omer Bartov to Give Shapiro Scholar Annual Lecture May 8 at USC
Renowned Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov will give his public lecture as USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s 2016-2017 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence on Monday, May…
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Teachers in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, Attend First IWitness/IWalk Seminar
Ukrainian regional consultant Anna Lenchovska was invited to present IWitness and the IWalk program to teachers in the Vinnitsa region of western Ukraine for the first time earlier this month. This…
Monday, April 10, 2017
Commemorating Yom HaShoah 2017 through Testimony
Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom HaShoah as it’s known in Hebrew, commemorates and honors the victims and survivors of the Holocaust. This year, people around the world will remember the victims of…
Monday, April 10, 2017
"100 Days to Inspire Respect" Week 12: Indifference Through Media
Every Friday, the following week’s 100 Days to Inspire Respect educational resources will be previewed.
This week’s resources provide students with an opportunity to reflect on the relationship…
Friday, April 7, 2017
Center for Advanced Genocide Research Awards Inaugural Breslauer, Rutman and Anderson Fellowship to Diane Marie Amann
Diane Marie Amann, Associate Dean at the University of Georgia School of Law, has been chosen as the first-ever Breslauer, Rutman and Anderson Research Fellow at USC Shoah Foundation Center for…
Thursday, April 6, 2017
Summer 2016 Research Fellows Share Findings One Year Later
Four of USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s summer 2016 research fellows returned to the Institute on Tuesday, April 4, to share the outcomes of their fellowships and the…
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
One Month Left for 2017 IWitness Video Challenge
2016 winners Maya Montell, Allison Vandal and Caroline Waters display their video at the Ambassadors for Humanity gala in Los Angeles
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Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Hammer Museum to Host Panel Discussion About Genocide on Film
Next week, Executive Director of USC Shoah Foundation Dr. Stephen D. Smith will be joined by director Terry George and producer and physician Eric Esrailian onstage at UCLA’s Hammer Museum to discuss…
Monday, April 3, 2017
Katja Schatte Lecture (Summary)
Katja Schatte (University of Washington)
"Between Scholarship and Community Engagement: Exploring Pre- and Post-Reunification Jewish Life in East Berlin"
March 7, 2017
Katja Schatte, the…
Saturday, April 1, 2017
"100 Days to Inspire Respect" Week 11: Countering Violence and Violent Extremism
Every Friday, the following week’s 100 Days to Inspire Respect educational resources will be previewed.
Entering its eleventh week of operation, USC Shoah Foundation’s 100 Days to Inspire Respect…
Friday, March 31, 2017
Teaching with Testimony for Genocide Awareness Month
Throughout history, April has unfortunately been a significant month in the planning and implementation of genocide. In April 1915, the Ottoman government rounded up and arrested Armenian…
Friday, March 31, 2017
Advance “Finding Oscar” Screenings in New York and Los Angeles This April
Before Finding Oscar is released in theaters across the country on April 21, USC Shoah Foundation will host three free screenings and Q&As with the filmmakers and representatives from the…
Thursday, March 30, 2017
USC Digital Journalism Class Demos New Dimensions in Testimony
The questions were tentative at first, but came faster and faster as the students became more comfortable speaking to someone who wasn’t even there.
“How do you feel about the Nazis?”
“Do…
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Celebrations in New York and Los Angeles Mark Completion of Integration of Armenian Film Foundation Testimonies
USC Shoah Foundation on Monday Mar. 27 and on Friday Mar. 31 celebrated the completion of a years-long endeavor to integrate hundreds of testimonies from the Armenian Genocide into the Institute’s…
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Stereotyping and Perspective
As a young Latino, store employees pretending to be doing a job as they watch me shop is almost expected. The feeling of walking into a Walgreens and an employee looking daggers into you, as if you…
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Summer Fellowship Applications Due March 31
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research would like to remind anyone interested in three research fellowship opportunities – two for this upcoming summer, one for the 2017-2018…
Monday, March 27, 2017