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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
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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