USC Shoah Foundation adds 5 IWitness activities in Spanish about Guatemala Genocide

Wed, 03/14/2018

The release follows the recent completion of 489 interviews with the survivors of the Guatemala Genocide at the hands of the Guatemalan military in the early 1980s.

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Lucía Samayoa

Lucía Samayoa was born in Guatemala, and, after moving away at age 6, was schooled in various countries throughout Latin America.

But it wasn’t really until last year, when she started working at Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation (FAFG) in Guatemala City, that the 30-year-old really gained a deeper understanding of the genocide that killed roughly 200,000 civilians – mainly indigenous Mayans – at the hands of the Guatemalan military in the early 1980s.

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Artist and Holocaust Survivor, Kalman Aron passes away at 93

Wed, 03/14/2018

USC Shoah Foundation is saddened to learn about the passing of Kalman Aron, a Holocaust survivor who created in paint the horrors he witnessed during World War II. He died on Feb. 24. He was 93.

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Read more about Sarkis Miranian on tensions in his village before the Armenian Genocide began

Sarkis Miranian on tensions in his village before the Armenian Genocide began

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Read more about USC Shoah Foundation Adds Large Collection of Armenian Genocide Testimony to its Archive

USC Shoah Foundation Adds Large Collection of Armenian Genocide Testimony to its Archive

Thu, 03/08/2018

By: Robin Migdol

The more than 1,000 interviews will constitute the largest non-Holocaust-related collection to be integrated into the Institute’s Visual History Archive. It will also be the Archive’s first audio-only collection.

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Read more about An incredible woman: A Look at Vera Laska for International Women's Day

An incredible woman: Vera Laska joined the Czech resistance, saved Jewish lives as a teenager

Thu, 03/08/2018

In honor of International Women's Day, USC Shoah Foundation is revisiting the story of the late Vera Laska, who joined the Czech resistance as a teenager and escorted dozens of Jews to safety in the snowy mountains of southern Slovakia.

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