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Videóinterjúk a 21. század oktatásában 2020

Videóinterjúk a 21. század oktatásában 2020 A Dél-Kaliforniai Egyetem (USC) Soá Alapítvány nemzetközi oktatási programja Magyarországon MOST jelentkezhet a magyarországi program kilencedik…
Thursday, April 23, 2020

National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Becomes Visual History Archive Full Access Site

The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) will feature full access to the public of the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive (VHA) of over 54,000 testimonies. One of…
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Mehmet Polatel Lectures about the Relationship between the Hamidian Massacres and the Armenian Genocide

“Continuity, Escalation, and Local Actors: The Hamidian Massacres and the Armenian Genocide” Mehmet Polatel 2019-2020 Center Junior Postdoctoral Research Fellow April 13,…
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

In Panama, Six Days for the Six Million

Panama’s Jewish community is commemorating Yom HaShoah virtually this year with a week-long series of thematic Instagram posts that will integrate clips from USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History…
Monday, April 20, 2020

Spring Release adds Tutsi, Rohingya, and "Last Chance" Testimonies

Above: Holocaust survivor Elly Gotz who gave his testimony to the Azrieli Foundation in 2018. His interview is one of 31 new testimonies from the Azrieli Foundation that have been indexed and…
Thursday, April 9, 2020

Cambodian Genocide: 45 Years Later

Forty-five years ago to the day, a communist regime known as the Khmer Rouge conquered the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. The occupation set in motion a four-year campaign of genocide that…
Monday, April 6, 2020

Shapiro Scholar Peter Hayes lectures about the Holocaust at its peak

“Makeshift Murder: The Holocaust at Its Peak” Peter Hayes (Northwestern University) 2019-2020 Shapiro Scholar in Residence March 5, 2020 On March 5, 2020, Professor Peter Hayes,…
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Maël Le Noc lectures about Holocaust survivors' spatial experiences in Paris

“Geographies of Persecution in Occupied Paris: Place and Space in Survivors' Testimonies” Maël Le Noc (PhD Candidate in Geography, Texas State University) 2019-2020 Margee and Douglas…
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

What testimonies teach us: Reflections from 2019-2020 Shapiro Scholar Peter Hayes

I much enjoyed my stay at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research in early March, just before the pandemic turned all of our lives upside down. Meeting the wonderful members of…
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

“People were dying like flies”: A reflection on COVID-19 and epidemics during the Holocaust

Only a day after the University of Southern California announced that it would conduct a three-day test to move all classes online, which soon turned into a permanent arrangement until the end of…
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

In memory of Holocaust Survivor Anneliese Nossbaum

USC Shoah foundation is saddened to learn of the recent passing of Anneliese Nossbaum, who survived a Jewish ghetto and three concentration camps. Anneliese passed away March 23, 2020 after…
Wednesday, April 1, 2020