Education News

Mona Golabek to Bring The Children of Willesden Lane to 50,000 Students, Educators in Texas

USC Shoah Foundation partner and celebrated author, performer and concert pianist Mona Golabek this week brings her virtual, theatrical performance based on The Children of Willesden Lane book to 50…
Monday, January 23, 2023

Academic Fellows Convene to Develop Testimony Based Curriculum on Nazi Medical Experiments

A group of Bioethics and the Holocaust Fellows recently gathered at USC Shoah Foundation headquarters in Los Angeles to develop content for new curriculums that will feature Visual History Archive…
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

New Webinar Series to Train Educators to Recognize, Respond to Antisemitism

A partnership including USC Shoah Foundation next week holds its first professional development webinar to train teachers to recognize and respond to antisemitism with their students. The…
Thursday, January 5, 2023

Countering Antisemitism through Education

USC Shoah Foundation offers a robust collection of resources, events and activities to counter antisemitism for educators and students—on the USC campus and beyond—for the 2022-2023 academic year. …
Thursday, November 10, 2022

Countering Antisemitism through Education

USC Shoah Foundation offers a robust collection of resources, events and activities to counter antisemitism for educators and students—on the USC campus and beyond—for the 2022-2023 academic year. …
Thursday, November 10, 2022

California Governor Declares Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day a Statewide Holiday, Junior Interns Use IWalk to tour Montebello Monument

California Governor Gavin Newsom recently declared that Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day—observed annually on April 24—will become a statewide holiday to be known as Genocide Awareness Day. A…
Friday, October 28, 2022

Where Technology Meets Pedagogy: New Webinars Show Teachers How to Use Testimony to Accelerate Learning

USC Shoah Foundation today launches a series of professional development webinars that provide educators with testimony-based resources that support accelerated learning practices across the…
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Call for Talented Students: USC Shoah Foundation Accepting Applications for William P. Lauder Junior Internship Program

USC Shoah Foundation is accepting applications for the highly competitive William P. Lauder Junior Internship Program that begins November 13. Since 2014, the program has provided a dynamic and…
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

New IWalk Takes Users on Virtual Tour of 1941 Babyn Yar Massacre Site

Eighty-one years ago today Nazi soldiers and their collaborators committed one of the largest single massacres of the Holocaust with the murder of close to 33,000 Jews in the Babyn Yar ravine in…
Thursday, September 29, 2022

USC Shoah Foundation Launches 500th IWitness Activity with “In Lisa's Footsteps” Virtual IWalk

USC Shoah Foundation today launches its 500th IWitness activity with release of In Lisa's Footsteps, a primary level IWalk based on Mona Golabek’s acclaimed The Children of Willesden Lane books. …
Wednesday, August 10, 2022