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Pasadena Armenian Genocide Commemoration

Resilience in the Face of Genocide — Then and Now

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April 21, 2024 @ 3:00 pm | Free Event
On April 21, the Pasadena Armenian Coalition will host a community-wide event at the Pasadena Armenian Genocide Memorial Monument to commemorate the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The event will pay tribute to the enduring strength and resiliency of the survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, while honoring the memory of the more than 1.5 Million victims who lost their lives 109 years ago. The event will feature survivor testimonies from the Visual History Archive, followed by the keynote speaker, Sedda Antekelian, USC Shoah Foundation Senior Learning and Development Specialist, as well as remarks from Congresswoman Judy Chu. Students from local Armenian schools will recite poems and songs to conclude the event.
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Start: April 21, 2024 / 3:00 PM
Cost: Free Event
Where: Pasadena Armenian Genocide Memorial Monument, Pasadena, CA
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Pasadena Armenian Genocide Memorial Monument
85 E. Holly St, Pasadena, CA, United States
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Steven Spielberg and staff member Karen Kushell at the Shoah Foundation office, 1995.

Volunteers in the Shoah Foundation office on the Universal Studios lot, 1995.

Shoah Foundation staff indexing English-language testimonies, late 1990s.

The Shoah Foundation’s first feature-length documentary The Last Days wins the 1998 Academy Award for Best Documentary feature.

Holocaust survivor and producer of Schindler’s List Branko Lustig sits down with interviewer Gerald Molen to record the 50,000th Shoah Foundation testimony, 1999.

An early prototype of the interface designed to search the Visual History Archive, late 1990s.

The tape robot in the Shoah Foundation offices provides users with access to testimonies stored on large servers, 2000.

The Shoah Foundation’s Visual History in the Classroom initiative brings six educational products to 54,000 schools, reaching 1.6 million students in 11 countries, 2004.

Leaders from the Shoah Foundation, the Anti-Defamation League, and Yad Vashem join to celebrate the launch of Echoes and Reflections, a comprehensive educational resource for American high school students, 2005.

The newly-named USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education moves to the USC campus as part of the David and Dana Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, 2006.

Arrival of first shipment of Beta tapes containing survivor testimonies at the USC Shoah Foundation for archival digitizing, 2008. 

The Armenian Film Foundation and Dr. J. Michael Hagopian sign a historic agreement with the Institute to digitize, preserve, and disseminate filmed interviews of survivors of the Armenian Genocide, 2010.

High school students in San Diego test a pilot version of IWitness, an online educational platform that engages students using testimony from survivors and witnesses of genocide, 2011.

USC Shoah Foundation Chief Technology Officer Sam Gustman shows visitors the technology behind the preservation and restoration of testimonies, 2012.

President Barack Obama receives the USC Shoah Foundation’s Ambassador for Humanity Award, 2014.

Video Archive and Post-Production Manager Ryan Fenton-Strauss films Holocaust survivor Kitty Hart-Moxon for the documentary One Day in Auschwitz, 2014.

Holocaust survivor Renee Firestone sits to record her Dimensions in Testimony interview, 2015. The interactive technology allows people to have a conversational experience with Holocaust survivors and other witnesses to genocide in a real-time format

USC Shoah Foundation founder Steven Spielberg meets with Holocaust survivors during an Institute visit to Poland in honor of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, 2015.

Dr. Richard Hovannisian, a leading scholar of the Armenian Genocide, announces the integration of the Richard G. Hovannisian Armenian Genocide Oral History Collection into the Visual History Archive, 2018.

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USC Shoah Foundation curator Crispin Brooks interviews Holocaust survivor Marta Eva Shemesh in a renewed effort to collect testimony, February 2020.

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Mary Antekelian, center, with daughter-in-law Sirvard, son Levon, and grandsons Hovannes and Andranik, the author’s father.
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