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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