IWitness at the 2016 Illinois Reading Council
USC Shoah Foundation will lead a session at the Illinois Reading Council (IRC) Conference, introducing educators to IWitness and the use of testimony as an educational resource.
IWitness Professional Development Webinar
USC Shoah Foundation's educational platform, IWitness continues hosting free webinars for educators throughout 2016. These webinars aim to provide a more in-depth and interactive approach to learning how to teach with testimony.
ITeach Seminar: Czech Republic
A one-day, intermediate level session focused on the refugee experience. This session introduces educators in Brno, Czech Republic to the use of testimony as an educational resource, emphasizing Czech language activities in IWitness.
ITeach Seminar: Detroit
The three-day training will introduce participating educators in the greater Detroit area to IWitness and strategies for using testimony in the classroom, including how to integrate testimony across the curriculum and how to create testimony-curriculum plans for their individual classrooms.
Religious Resistance in Auschwitz: The Sacrifice of Saint Kolbe
A Franciscan friar and Catholic priest, Maximillian Koble sacrificed his life for another man in Auschwitz. After 14 days of being confined in a prison cell without food or water Kolbe was murdered by SS guards. Kolbe was beatified and then canonized as a saint by Pope John Paul II in 1982, and known as “The Patron Saint of Our Difficult Century.”
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12, 2016 – The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research has established a new endowed academic research fellowship with a gift from four longtime supporters of the Institute.