Southern California Teachers Attend Holocaust Education Institute Workshop
USC Shoah Foundation and ADL hosted the first session of this year’s Holocaust Education Institute Friday, Oct. 24, which was attended by an enthusiastic group of over 50 educators from the Los Angeles area.
Screening of Schindler’s List
Sunday, November 16th, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Eileen Norris Cinema Theater Complex
USC Shoah Foundation and its Center for Advanced Genocide Research present a screening of Schindler’s List as a part of the Through Testimony 2014 International Conference, “Memory, Media, and Technology: Exploring the Trajectories of Schindler’s List.”
This event is free and open to the public.
Educators Learn About Testimony at Workshops in Czech Republic and United States
USC Shoah Foundation and its partner in the Czech Republic, PANT, have been busy leading workshops and seminars about the Visual History Archive and IWitness for educators.
Memory Lived
Pinchas Gutter stepped onto the bimah at the Kiever Synagogue in Toronto, Canada, where for the 27th consecutive time he was about to lead the Yom Kippur services. He stood tall in his white robe breathing deeply surrounded by eight white-clad Torah scrolls, each held by a leaders of the congregation. The scrolls appear to jostle for position, their silver shields and finials glistening as PInchas intones the ancient supplication, 'Kol Nidrei'. But on the bimah there are more than the eight men holding Torah scrolls, because gathered around him are also the ghosts of the G
