USC Institute of Armenian Studies Gala Event to Salute USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Armenian Genocide Digitization Project

(LOS ANGELES, CA, March 1, 2012) – “Don’t Let Their Voices Be Forgotten” is the message that the USC Institute of Armenian Studies’ Leadership Council is sending as it invites a cross section of highly respected community leaders and benefactors to a gala banquet on April 15, 2012, in honor of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for championing the Armenian Genocide Digitization Project.

New Dimensions in Testimony: Pinchas Gutter, February 2012

On February 14, Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter participated in a prototype interview for New Dimensions in Testimony, an initiative to record and display 3D interactive testimonies that will preserve the dialogue between Holocaust survivors and learners far into the future.  Gutter's interview was part of the New Dimensions in Testimony seminar (February 13-15), which brought together Holocaust survivors, technologists, and leaders of museums and memorial institutions from around the world.  More

(Re)collections: Trauma, Collective Memory and the Archive Event

On February 10-11, the USC Shoah Foundation hosted a two-day event devoted to a multi-faceted inquiry of memory and its manifestations in individual and public life.  Sponsored by The Dornsife Commons, the event was led by USC Shoah staff member Dr. Dan Leshem.

Witness and Responsibility Event: 2012 Conference of the Association of Jewish Theatre

On February 7, 2012, from 10 a.m.to 4 p.m., the USC Shoah Foundation hosted an event entitled Witness and Responsibility, in the Doheny Memorial Library.  The day-long event focused on artistic work that engages with catastrophe and events—personal and world-wide—which challenge our sense of how things ought to be.  The event was a part of the Association for Jewish Theatre's four-day international conference in Los Angeles, Reflecting and Shaping a Shifting World.

Seminář navštívil regiony

U příležitosti Mezinárodního dne památky holocaustu byly českým učitelům ve dnech 24. až 26. ledna v rámci unikátního pilotního programu představeny vzdělávací materiály vytvořené čtyřmi institucemi: experti z Jad Vašem, Vzdělávacího a kulturního centra Židovského muzea v Praze, Památníku Terezín a USC Shoah Foundation společně s místními aktivisty představili vzdělávací materiály a další pomůcky vytvořené jejich organizacemi. Seminář navštívil tři města v pohraničí: Ústí nad Labem, Klášterec nad Ohří, a Varnsdorf.

 

Wendy Lower Lecture: "I Wanted to Prove Myself to the Men: Female Perpetrators in the Killing Fields of the Holocaust”

On January 26, 2012, from 4 p.m.-6 p.m., the USC Shoah Foundation offered a lecture entitled I Wanted to Prove Myself to the Men:  Female Perpetrators in the Killing Fields of the Holocaust, in the Social Sciences building on the USC campus.  The lecture featured Wendy Lower, Ph.D., an Associate Professor of History and lecturer at Maximilians University, Munich.  Drawing from wartime documents, postwar trials, private letters, and interviews, this lecture focused on outstanding cases of women who participated in the Holocaust, some in ghetto liquidations and mass sh

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