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New Rwandan IWitness Activity Every Week in April


Starting today and continuing each Friday throughout the month of April, IWitness will publish a new activity geared for Rwandan students. Read More

Remembering and Recognizing Genocide


April is Genocide Awareness Month, a time to reflect on atrocities of the past while ensuring that we avoid acts of mass murder in the future. The urgency of this mandate was highlighted just weeks ago when the U.S. House of Representatives and the State Department officially recognized that ISIS is committing genocide in the Middle East. Read More

Online Professional Development from Echoes and Reflections Begins April 4


USC Shoah Foundation partner Echoes and Reflections is launching a three-week online professional development webinar series for educators on Tuesday, April 4, 2016. Read More

Alina Bothe Lecture (Summary)


Alina Bothe, PhD, the 2015-2016 USC Shoah Foundation Teaching Fellow, gave a public lecture at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research focusing on the way users experience and relate to the testimonies in the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive. Read More

Why I Teach about the Holocaust


This year I focused on eyewitness testimony to the Holocaust and it changed the experience for my students and for me. Read More

Dan Stone Gives Global History of Concentration Camps


In his lecture at USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research March 29, Professor Dan Stone offered a global perspective of the origins and history of concentration camps. Read More

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