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Join the Conversation for #AskanArchivist Day


On Wednesday, October 5, USC Shoah Foundation will share best practices of using the Visual History Archive, host live conversations with our archivists and indexers; and give a demonstration of the new ProQuest search function. Read More

Paula Cuellar Cuellar Lecture (Summary)


Paula Cuellar Cuellar (University of Minnesota) "A Tale of Two Genocides: Scorched Earth Operations as Genocidal Practices in El Salvador and Guatemala" Read More

Thirty Days of Testimony from the Canadian Collections Begins Today


The Canadian collections consist of 1,250 testimonies taken by nine organizations in Canada, the three biggest of which are the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, and McGill University. Read More

In Hungary, ITeach Accredited and IWitness Integrated into National Textbook


USC Shoah Foundation’s ITeach seminars, which introduce educators to IWitness and teaching with testimony from the Visual History Archive, have been officially accredited by Hungary’s Ministry of Human Resources, paving the way for testimony to be fully integrated into Hungarian curriculum. Read More

Center Fellow Paula Cuellar Cuellar Speaks on Genocide and Scorched Earth in Guatemala and El Salvador


On the heels of USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s international conference on genocide and resistance in Guatemala, the 2016-17 Center Graduate Research Fellow Paula Cuellar Cuellar gave a lecture about her own research of scorched earth as an integral part of the genocides in Guatemala and El Salvador. Read More

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