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"Auschwitz” Documentary to Screen at Tribeca Film Festival


The film originally premiered at Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on January 27, 2015, the commemoration ceremony for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. Read More

USC Students Share Visual History Archive at ucLADINO Symposium


Aided by their exploration of the Visual History Archive, three students and a professor from USC presented a panel discussion at the fifth annual ucLADINO Symposium at UCLA March 2-3, 2015. Read More

IWitness Video Challenge 2016: A Teacher’s Perspective


Emily Bengels’s students are already well on their way to submitting their projects to the IWitness Video Challenge. Read More

Rwandan and American Students Collaborate on Bystander Effect Activity


One class was in Charlotte, North Carolina. The other, in Kigali, Rwanda. But on Friday, March 4, nearly 60 students came together via Skype to talk about what they learned from IWitness’s Bystander Effect activity. Read More

Commemorating Women's History Month with IWitness


For Women’s History Month, bring the unique voices of women who survived or stood up against some of the worst atrocities of the 20th century into your classroom. Facing History is partnering with USC Shoah Foundation to help educators access more than 1,500 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses to the Holocaust and other genocides using the Institute’s online learning tool, IWitness. Read More

Partnership with ProQuest to Increase Access to Visual History Archive


Starting immediately, ProQuest will become the exclusive distributor of USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive to colleges and universities around the world. Read More

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