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IWitness Gears Up for Back to School with New Content and Features


Find out what new activities, testimonies and enhancements are coming to IWitness in time for the start of the 2016-2017 school year. Read More

Testimony in Armenian Collection Will Include Visual History Archive’s First Funeral


The integration of the final Armenian Genocide collection testimonies in the coming months will bring unique stories and testimony formats to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive — including one that includes both a survivor’s life and his death. Read More

USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research to Honor Holocaust Scholar David Cesarani


Cesarani died last year just weeks after being named the Center's inaugural Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence. Read More

IWitness Workshop at Powell Holocaust Summer Institute in Seattle


USC Shoah Foundation’s education regional consultant for the United States, Rob Hadley, is teaching 30 educators about IWitness during the Powell Holocaust Summer Institute at the Henry and Sarah Friedman Holocaust Center for Humanity in Seattle this week, August 8-12. Read More

Fifth Annual Master Teacher Program in Poland Inspires Educators


The fifth annual Master Teacher program in Poland (formerly called Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century) introduced thirteen educators to the Visual History Archive, sparking new ideas for teaching their students about the Holocaust and current events in their country. Read More

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