Board of Councilors Member Andy Friendly Publishes Memoir “Willing to Be Lucky: Adventures in Life and Television”

Fri, 10/27/2017

In his new memoir, Willing to be Lucky: Adventures in Life and Television, readers will not only get the inside scoop about working with Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney – they’ll also learn how his work with USC Shoah Foundation has been some of the most meaningful of his life.

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Though USC Shoah Foundation runs in 13-year-old Sydney Gordon’s veins – her dad Mark Gordon is a member of its Next Generation Council and her grandmother Ita Gordon has been an indexer and researcher there since the foundation’s inception in 1994 – Sydney admitted she was hesitant to choose it as her bat mitzvah project at first.

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Read more about Panel discusses social networks at Auschwitz, GPS testimonies in Cambodia, mapping of plundered Jewish homes in Paris

Panel discusses social networks at Auschwitz, GPS testimonies in Cambodia, mapping of plundered Jewish homes in Paris

Thu, 10/26/2017

Paris Papamichos Chronakis, Eric Le Bourhis and Andrew Curtis shared their research on the second day of the Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies conference, hosted by USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research.

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Read more about First Permanent New Dimensions in Testimony Exhibit Opens at Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center

First Permanent New Dimensions in Testimony Exhibit Opens at Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center

Wed, 10/25/2017

New Dimensions in Testimony will be exhibited in the Abe & Ida Cooper Survivor Stories Experience, enabling visitors to interact with the project’s filmed testimonies of 13 survivors, including seven who live in the Chicago area.

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New Dimensions in Testimony Survivor Filming

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Read more about Scholars Share Digital Visualization Possibilities and Challenges at Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies Conference

Scholars Share Digital Visualization Possibilities and Challenges at Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies Conference

Tue, 10/24/2017

Digital tools allow researchers from a variety of disciplines, including cartography, history and visual arts, to represent the Holocaust in new, exciting visual formats.

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