Carson High School: Pilot Program for Living Histories

Designed for educators, Living Histories:  Seven Voices from the Holocaust, is a series of 7 downloadable 30-minute testimonies, with classroom lessons highlighting a range of eyewitness experiences related to the Holocaust, from the Institute’s Visual History Archive.  Living Histories was piloted in several classrooms across the United States.  One pilot took place in the Spring of 2009 in Merri Weir's history class at Carson High School in Carson, California.  The photos below were taken during a classroom session that focused on one of the seven modules

Cambodian Interns Training at the Institute

From February through April 2009, Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) staff members Bunthy Chey, Fatily Sa, and Ratanak Leng participated in an internship program at the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, to support DC-Cam’s ongoing effort to collect testimony from survivors of the genocide in Cambodia, which claimed as many as 2 million lives from 1975–1979.

„Zeugen der Shoah“: über 50.000 Zeitzeugen-Interviews für die schulische Bildung

Freie Universität stellt erstmalig deutsche Version von digitalem Video-Archiv vor

Die Freie Universität Berlin hat heute erstmals das multimediale Archiv-Projekt „Zeugen der Shoah. Das Visual History Archive in der schulischen Bildung“ vorgestellt. Das von der Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin (DKLB) geförderte Projekt eröffnet Schülerinnen und Schülern in Deutschland den Zugang zu über 50.000 Video-Interviews mit Zeugen des Holocaust und leistet somit einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Erinnerung an die Opfer und zur Bildung über die NS-Zeit.

Magyarországon is elérhető a USC Soá Intézet Vizuális Történelmi Archívuma

A közép-kelet-európai régióban elsőként, a Közép-európai Egyetem (CEU) könyvtárában elérhető immár a Soá Intézet a Vizuális Történelemért és Oktatásért Vizuális Történelmi Archívumának (USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education) teljes anyaga. 

Fotografie del seminario La memoria della Shoah come scelta morale

Fotografie del seminario La memoria della Shoah come scelta morale.  L’uso dell’archivio audio-visuale dello USC Shoah Foundation Institute nella scuola.  Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 24 marzo 2009.

Questo seminario intendeva costituire un momento di formazione per educatori e insegnanti, allo scopo di elaborare progetti educativi a partire dai documenti audio-visivi di testimoni e sopravvissuti, rendendo la memoria un’occasione per riflettere sulle scelte morali e sull’impegno civile—anche nel momento attuale—a favore dei diritti di tutti.

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