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Take the 2018 IWitness Video Challenge
IWitness is a valuable digital resource with more than 2,500 survivor testimonies to the Holocaust and other genocides and student centered activities designed to engage multiple literacies. As an…
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Call for Applications: 2018 Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships
Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships
Summer 2018
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites research proposals from USC undergraduate students for its 2018…
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Call for Applications: 2018 Graduate/Faculty Summer Research Fellowships
Graduate/Faculty Summer Research Fellowships
Summer 2018
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites research proposals from USC faculty members and graduate students…
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Genocide Studies Course at Public High School in Florida Uses IWitness
In a small classroom at a public high school in Florida, aged photos of prisoners of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland and the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany stare down at the students that have…
Monday, January 29, 2018
Institute Year in Review for 2017
Top Stories of 2017
Rare Collection of World War II Artifacts Donated to USC Libraries
Jan. 18, 2017
In addition to a large series of intricately detailed letters, the collection
includes…
Monday, January 29, 2018
Learning Activities to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The world will observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday, which is the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. It’s a day of somber reflection, but also a…
Thursday, January 25, 2018
New Dimensions in Testimony Showcased at World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith, Director of Global Initiatives Karen Jungblut and Project Manager Kia Hays are attending this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,…
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Hidden Histories: Connecting “The Post” to the Visual History Archive
USC Shoah Foundation congratulates its founder Steven Spielberg on the nomination today for the 2018 Academy Awards for Best Picture for his film “The Post," which has a surprising connection…
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
History Saved: Major Project to Restore Damaged Testimonies Complete
When you dispatch thousands of volunteer interviewers to collect 50,000-plus interviews on videotape, it’s a given that a fraction of the footage will come back with flaws.
For USC Shoah…
Friday, January 19, 2018
