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In the Aftermath of Tragedy in Florida
At the exact moment a former student was destroying lives at Stoneman Douglas High School, a group of students inside a classroom was studying ways to make the world a better place.
These were…
Friday, February 16, 2018
IWitness debuts timeline activities for high school students with lesson about Elie Wiesel's 'Night'
Elie Wiesel’s landmark book “Night” is the subject of a new type of English-language IWitness activity produced by USC Shoah Foundation’s education department.
In “Journey Through Night,” the…
Friday, February 16, 2018
Holocaust survivor Hannah Kent passes away at 88
USC Shoah Foundation is deeply saddened by the passing of Hannah Kent, who survived three concentration camps and a death march, but went on to live a full life filled with love, family and resolve…
Thursday, February 15, 2018
IWitness Activities for American Black History Month — Day 3
Editor’s Note:
February is Black History Month, a time to acknowledge and celebrate the central role African Americans have made in the United States. In honor of this special time, we invite…
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
"The Last Goodbye" Wins a Top Virtual Reality Prize at 2018 Lumiere Awards
“The Last Goodbye,” a virtual-reality film that brings the viewer inside a Nazi concentration camp with Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter, won a top prize at the 2018 Lumiere Awards hosted Monday by…
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Remembering Margot Schlesinger, Auschwitz Survivor
We are sorry to hear about the recent passing of Jewish Holocaust survivor Margot Schlesinger. The Chicago resident was 99.
Schlesinger gave her testimony to USC Shoah Foundation in 1995.
Born…
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Aegis education team dives deep into IWitness during visit to Institute
In Rwanda, where the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi remains a fresh wound, education is a critical piece of promoting lasting peace.
A group with Aegis’s education team in Rwanda has concluded a…
Monday, February 12, 2018
Poland's Holocaust law defies history - and embodies a troubling trend
Even absent this current era of “alternative facts” and “fake news,” the new Polish law making it a crime to point out Poland’s complicity in the Holocaust would be alarming.
But that it is…
Friday, February 9, 2018
IWitness Stories for American Black History Month — Day 2
Editor’s Note:
February is Black History Month, a time to acknowledge and celebrate the central role African Americans have made in the United States. In honor of this special time, we invite…
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
2018 Polish-Israeli Crisis: History, Trauma, and Politics of Cultural Memory
The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.
- Zygmunt Bauman
The future of…
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
2018 Polish-Israeli Crisis: History, Trauma, and Politics of Cultural Memory
The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.
- Zygmunt Bauman
2018 Polish…
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
In Memory of Arkadii Vaispapir, Survivor of Sobibór Death Camp
We are saddened to learn of the recent passing of Arkadii Vaispapir, one of few people ever to have survived the Sobibór death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Holocaust. He was 96.
…
Monday, February 5, 2018
IWitness Stories for American Black History Month
Editor’s Note:
February is Black History Month, a time to acknowledge and celebrate the central role African Americans have made in the United States. In honor of this special time, we invite…
Monday, February 5, 2018
Christopher R. Browning Named the 2017-2018 Shapiro Scholar in Residence
Professor Emeritus Christopher R. Browning, considered one of the world’s leading experts on the subjects of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, will serve as the 2017-2018 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar…
Monday, February 5, 2018
2018-2019 Center Research Fellowship Awarded to Jean-Marc Dreyfus (University of Manchester)
Jean-Marc Dreyfus, PhD, Reader in Holocaust Studies in the History department at the University of Manchester (United Kingdom) and former Director of the European Research Council’s Corpses of…
Monday, February 5, 2018
Diane Marie Amann Lecture Summary
Diane Marie Amann (University of Georgia and Leiden University, the Netherlands)
2017-2018 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow
"Women at Nuremberg"
January 30, 2018
Diane…
Friday, February 2, 2018
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 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
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
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
