The Last Goodbye: Now Available on Oculus Rift!
The Last Goodbye virtual reality experience is now available on Oculus Rift.
Four years ago, Pinchas Gutter traveled back to the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland, where he had been imprisoned as a child during the Holocaust. In this emotional journey, Pinchas shares his firsthand testimony of what he saw and experienced there and invites you into the spaces and memories with him.
Sh'loshim Retrospective
A Holocaust survivor saved by Oskar Schindler who gave testimony to the Visual History Archive, the late Hazzan Moshe Taube z''l went on to become one of the great cantors of his generation. During this retrospective event, hosted by Hazzan Robert Kieval and produced by the Cantors Assembly, we will hear classic recordings and recollections of colleagues and friends.
Truth and Accountability
Leaders in the field of genocide prevention and human rights activists join together to discuss the definition of ethnic cleansing, in the context of the ongoing conflict in and around Artsakh. This prerecorded panel will air on Facebook Live.
ENOUGH 1st Annual Human Rights Day Program
5:00PM PST / 6:00PM MST / 8:00PM EST / 12:00PM (+1) AEDT
Join Stephen Smith as he gives the virtual keynote address at the first annual International Human Rights Day event hosted by ENOUGH (Education Now on Understanding Genocide and Hate) and The Town of New Castle Holocaust and Human Rights Committee. Stephen will share how testimony of Holocaust survivors and other genocide witnesses can help students, scholars, families, and communities make a difference in shaping our world for the better.
The Tattooed Torah
7 December 2020 - 7PM EST/4PM PST/11AM AEDT+1
This program is sponsored by the Goldrich Family Foundation.
Join USC Shoah Foundation and the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival for a special screening of The Tattooed Torah followed by a post-screening Q&A moderated by USC Shoah Foundation Finci-Viterbi Executive Director, Stephen Smith.
Ilse and Abner Delman
Worried about conjuring bad memories, Ilse Delman was initially reluctant to share her story with USC Shoah Foundation — The Institute for Visual History and Education. But after meeting with Institute staff, encouraged by her friend Anita Mayer, who had contributed her own testimony, and supported by her husband, Abner Delman, M.D., she shared her memories. A decade later, she remains grateful that her story will live on through the archive.
Chaya Nove is a PhD candidate in the Linguistics program at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). Her research interests include sociolinguistics, phonetics, language variation and change, contact linguistics and bilingualism. She is currently working on a project to investigate variation and change in the vowel system of contemporary Hasidic Yiddish spoken in New York. She is also conducting acoustic analyses of European Yiddish using archival recordings. Visit her CUNY website profile here.
My Reluctant Encounter With the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive
I never intended to spend months listening to Holocaust testimonies.
My name is Chaya Nove, I am a sociolinguist working on a doctoral dissertation about language change in Yiddish vowels. In my research, I consider the Yiddish spoken by Hasidic Jews in New York today (Hasidic Yiddish, or HY) as a living, changing language, with the understanding that this language was once spoken by a group of people in another time and place.