IWitness Video Challenge winners prompt fellow students to reflect on immigration struggles of their ancestors
The United States is a large and diverse country, but the family trees of many Americans are rooted in the challenges of being an immigrant.
That is a key takeaway from this year's winning entry for the IWitness Video Challenge, which invites students to be inspired by testimony of survivors of genocides and mass atrocities to make a positive contribution to their communities.
The winners of this year’s fifth annual contest co-organized by USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education attend Northside College Preparatory High School in Chicago.
BALUKHALI REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh (AP) — Mohammed Hashim hid in the hills and watched as his brother begged for his life, his arms bound behind his back as soldiers marched the 35-year-old teacher away. It was the last time he saw him alive. It was Aug. 26, the day after Rohingya Muslim separatist attacks on military outposts in the Rohingya homeland in western Myanmar. In their wake, Myanmar’s military and local Buddhists would respond with a campaign of rape, massacre and arson that has driven about 700,000 Rohingya into Banglades
In an effort to spark a social movement against hatred in all forms, USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education – and Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, today announced the winners of the 2018 IWitness Video Challenge.
In Memory of Gena Turgel, the 'Bride of Belsen' who cared for Anne Frank
Holocaust survivor Gena Turgel was known in the British press as the “Bride of Belsen” for marrying a British liberator of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she was a prisoner. She gave her testimony to USC Shoah Foundation in 1998.