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IWitness Video Challenge: Making the Video

This is part of a three-part blog series written by 2016 IWitness Video Challenge student winners. As a teenager, it is hard to know how I can make a difference in the world. Fourteen-year…
Thursday, February 16, 2017

Visual History Archive Informs Scholarly Books and Articles in 2016

Over the course of 2016, testimony from USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive contributed to a wide array of published texts, from studies about the methodology of the Institute’s…
Thursday, February 16, 2017

USC Shoah Foundation Presents IWitness at Czech Oral History Association Conference

USC Shoah Foundation was chosen to participate in the prestigious annual conference of the Czech Oral…
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Call for Applications: 2017-2018 Rutman Fellowship for Research and Teaching at University of Pennsylvania

Call for Applications Rutman Fellowship for Research and Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania 2017-2018 Deadline: April 15,…
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Teachers Learn About IWitness in Detroit and Southern California

Educators in the Detroit area and Glendale, Calif., attended professional development workshops on IWitness in the first months of 2017 in order to learn more about how to incorporate testimony into…
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Testifying at UN Tribunal in Cambodia

I recently was an expert witness from October 11-13, 2016, at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) in Phnom Penh, the so-called Khmer Rouge Tribunal that was established…
Monday, February 13, 2017

Katz Fellow Teresa Walch Speaks on Erasure of Jewish Spaces in Nazi Germany

To begin her talk about the erasure of Jewish spaces in Nazi-era Berlin, USC Shoah Foundation’s Robert J. Katz Research Fellow Teresa Walch asked the audience to think about what exactly determined…
Monday, February 13, 2017

“100 Days to Inspire Respect” Week 4: Community

Every Friday, the following week’s 100 Days to Inspire Respect educational resources…
Friday, February 10, 2017

Fellowship Opportunities for Undergrads, PhDs, Postdocs and Faculty at Center for Advanced Genocide Research

2016 Center Research Fellow Paula Cuellar Cuellar USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research is…
Thursday, February 9, 2017

IWitness Video Challenge: How our project began

This is the first blog in a three-part blog series written by 2016 IWitness Video Challenge student winners. Middle school can be complicated. As students, we are preparing…
Thursday, February 9, 2017

USC Shoah Foundation Conducts Final 27 Interviews for Nanjing Massacre Collection

USC Shoah Foundation has made most likely its final trip to Nanjing, China, to record testimonies of Nanjing Massacre survivors. The 27 interviews, recorded January 6-18, 2017, will bring the…
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Sixth Annual Malach Centre Conference Showcases Visual History Archive in Czech Republic

Scholars, students and the public came together for the sixth annual conference celebrating the Malach Centre for Visual History at Charles University, USC Shoah Foundation’s only full Visual History…
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

First they came for

First they came for the Muslims, and we said, “not this time.” In their third day of protest in certain cities, demonstrators gathered in unity against President Donald Trump’s recent executive…
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Stephen Smith to Give Lecture at Jewish Community Centre London

USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith will give a lecture on the Visual History Archive, New Dimensions in Testimony and the future of survivor testimony at the Jewish Community…
Monday, February 6, 2017

“100 Days to Inspire Respect” Week 3: Civil & Human Rights

High school teacher Jennifer Goss leading "100 Days to Inspire Respect" in IWitness with her students. Photo by Sean Thurston …
Friday, February 3, 2017

Three wishes and an unexpected gift on Holocaust Remembrance Day

For a German like myself, International Holocaust Remembrance Day is a day that is both intensely private and profoundly public. Seventy-two years ago, on January 27, 1945, Soviet troops…
Friday, February 3, 2017

Warsaw Council Members Commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day with IWalk

A group of Warsaw council members and representatives from the city’s cultural institutions gathered on January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, to go on an IWalk created by USC Shoah…
Thursday, February 2, 2017

Call for Applications: Graduate/Faculty Summer Research Fellowships for Summer 2017

Call for Applications Graduate/Faculty Summer Research Fellowships 2017 Deadline Extended: April 30, 2017 The USC Shoah…
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Call for Applications: DEFY Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships for Summer 2017

Call for Applications DEFY Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships Summer 2017 Deadline: March 31, 2017 The USC Shoah…
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

First Interdisciplinary Research Week to Study Holocaust Survivors in Latin America

Clockwise from left: Lorena Avila Jaimes, Yael Siman, Alejandra Morales Stekel, Susana Sosenski, Daniela Gleizer Salzman, Emmanuel Kahan, Nancy Nicholls Lopeandia …
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

The Rebel Academic: The Life and Work of David Cesarani (David Silberklang's Remarks)

The Rebel Academic: The Life and Work of David Cesarani The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research organized a symposium in the Fall to honor the work of leading Holocaust…
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

The Rebel Academic: The Life and Work of David Cesarani (Rob Rozett's Remarks)

The Rebel Academic: The Life and Work of David Cesarani The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research organized a symposium in the Fall to honor the work of leading Holocaust…
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

The Rebel Academic: The Life and Work of David Cesarani (Summary)

The Rebel Academic: The Life and Work of David Cesarani Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar Symposium on Jewish History and the Holocaust …
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Call for Applications: 2017-2018 A.I. and Manet Schepps Foundation Teaching Fellow Program at Texas A&M University

Call for Applications A.I. and Manet Schepps Foundation Teaching Fellow Program Texas A&M University Academic Year 2017-2018…
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Call for Applications: 2017-2018 International Teaching Fellowship

Call for Applications: International Teaching Fellowship Deadline: March 31, 2017 The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced…
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Call for Applications: Third Workshop for Advanced PhD Candidates (with Yad Vashem)

Call for Applications: Third Workshop for Advanced PhD Candidates from North American Universities and Israel who are working on the Holocaust …
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

It's "Impossible to Miss" Themes Linking 1933 With 2017

USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith's column was originally published by The Hollywood Reporter. At a first glance The Yellow Spot: The Extermination of the Jews in Germany…
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Educator Seminar in Hungary Brings Together Teachers from Four Countries to Build IWalks

The first step in educating a generation is educating the educators. This is what Andrea Szőnyi, USC Shoah Foundation’s regional consultant for Hungary, has been working on for the past year,…
Monday, January 30, 2017

“100 Days to Inspire Respect” Week 2: Racism

Virginia teacher Jennifer Goss introduces her students to 100 Days to Inspire Respect. Photo by Sean Thurston Every Friday…
Friday, January 27, 2017

Holocaust Museum Houston Begins Four-Month Exhibit of New Dimensions in Testimony

New Dimensions in Testimony will be on display at Holocaust Museum Houston until May 30 as part of the museum’s artistic exhibit “A Celebration of Survival.” Holocaust Museum Houston has…
Thursday, January 26, 2017