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New Dimensions in Testimony Stands out at Future of StoryTelling Festival


USC Shoah Foundation’s interactive New Dimensions in Testimony proved once again to be a popular and educational way to learn about the Holocaust when it was presented at the Future of StoryTelling Festival (FoST FEST) in New York earlier this month. Read More

Students Respond to Testimony for Siegelbaum Literary & Visual Arts Competition


Testimony clips about immigration will serve as the inspiration for students entering this year’s competition, open to grades 6-12. Read More

American University of Paris’s Schaeffer Center Hosts Inaugural Conference


The conference is “Legal Legacies of Genocide: From Nuremberg to the International Criminal Courts.” USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith is one of the presenters. Read More

New Resources in IWitness for Teaching with the Film “Denial”


IWitness has partnered with Participant Media and Bleecker Street Media to provide educational resources for the new film Denial, which tells the true story of the Holocaust denial libel trial between Deborah Lipstadt and David Irving. Read More

Eötvos Loránd University Gives Seminar on the Visual History Archive in Sign Language


Budapest’s Eötvos Loránd University (ELTE) offered its first-ever sign language seminar for hearing-impaired patrons on USC Shoah Foundation and the Visual History Archive on Oct. 6 at the university’s Central Library. Read More

Benjamin Madley Speaks on Genocide of California Native Americans at Center for Advanced Genocide Research


USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research welcomed UCLA Professor Benjamin Madley to USC on Tuesday to give a lecture on a genocide that hits closer to home, at least in a geographic sense, than any other: the genocide of American Indians in California in the mid-19th century. Madley has just published a book on the subject, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873. He is a historian of Native America, the United States, and genocide in world history. Read More

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