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IWitness Adds a Digital Book to Its Resource “Shelf”


IWitness users looking for secondary source material can now use keywords to search "The Holocaust and Other Genocides: An Introduction," the first digital book to be integrated into the IWitness platform. Read More

Malach Center for Visual History in Prague Commemorates Six Years of Access to Visual History Archive


A diverse group of guests from NGOs, memory institutions and schools gathered in the heart of historical Prague at the Malach Center for Visual History at Charles University to commemorate its sixth anniversary as a full access site of the Visual History Archive. Read More

Ukrainian Students Pilot “Arrival at Auschwitz” IWitness Activity


USC Shoah Foundation’s IWitness activity “Arrival at Auschwitz” was piloted in Ukraine last week with 15 students, many of whom had experienced being displaced themselves in the country’s 2014 unrest. Read More

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova Discusses Education and Preventing Extremism in Conversation with Stephen Smith


Bokova discussed the importance of human rights education in combating radical extremism around the world in a talk on February 8 in Leavey Library. Read More

Remembering the Lives Lost


How do we begin to remember the millions of victims of the biggest genocide in human history? How do we echo the gravity of the world’s loss to students? How do we work to create a meaningful moment that memorializes humankind’s greatest tragedy? In planning a Holocaust unit in conjunction with Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations, these are questions that were prevalent in our minds as we devised a memorial program that paid tribute while emphasizing the need for continued human rights education in classroom’s across the world. Read More

Czech Regional Consultant Gives Lecture at US Embassy in Prague


Martin Šmok, USC Shoah Foundation’s senior international program consultant and regional consultant in Czech Republic, gave his first presentation at the U.S. Embassy in Prague on February 4. Read More

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