Teaching the Armenian Genocide with Film and Testimony


Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - 11:54 AM PDT
This workshop invites middle and high school educators to learn best practices for teaching film with audiovisual testimony of survivors and witnesses of the Armenian Genocide using multimedia resources across IWitness to contextualize key themes and events addressed in the film The Promise.

We Are The Tree of Life


Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - 11:54 AM PDT
To announce the We Are The Tree of Life performing arts project, we are screening a short video that showcases some of the art created during the Holocaust and features Dr. Edith Eva Eger’s life story as a dancer.

Twenty-one-years after my grandmother recorded her testimony with USC Shoah Foundation, I teamed up with the Institute to create a podcast about my own decade-long journey to retrace her war story. It would be the first-ever narrative podcast to be based around survivor testimony. After years of research, criss-crossing international borders, living in stranger’s homes, and harmonizing history with the politics of today, I began to sit with her voice. “I always felt very guilty,” she told the interviewer about her survival.

Creative Storytelling

Podcasting With The Archive


Twenty-one-years after my grandmother recorded her testimony with USC Shoah Foundation, I teamed up with the Institute to create a podcast about my own decade-long journey to retrace her war story. It would be the first-ever narrative podcast to be based around survivor testimony. After years of research, criss-crossing international borders, living in stranger’s homes, and harmonizing history with the politics of today, I began to sit with her voice. “I always felt very guilty,” she told the interviewer about her survival.

Lauren Cantillon Lectures on Women's Narratives of Sexual(ized) Violence During the Holocaust


“Challenging the Shame Paradigm: Jewish Women’s Narratives of Sexual(ized) Violence During the Holocaust”

Lauren Cantillon (PhD candidate in the Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries at King’s College London, UK)

2020-2021 Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies

March 25, 2021

Badema Pitic

Forced Separation, Miraculous Reunion. 82 Years Later


Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - 11:54 AM PDT
Betty Grebenschikoff and Ana María Wahrenberg were inseparable best friends before the Holocaust. Separated when their families each fled the Nazis, they each believed the other had perished. They were reunited just a few short months ago thanks to a combination of international partnerships, astute research, and the power of survivor testimony.