New IWalk Takes Users on Virtual Tour of 1941 Babyn Yar Massacre Site
Thu, 09/29/2022 - 12:24pm
Eighty-one years ago today Nazi soldiers and their collaborators committed one of the largest single massacres of the Holocaust with the murder of close to 33,000 Jews in the Babyn Yar ravine in Ukraine.
The site of the atrocity on the outskirts of the capital Kyiv is now a memorial that people anywhere can visit with a new Virtual IWalk released by USC Shoah Foundation earlier this year.
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Towards recommendations for working with Holocaust testimony in the digital age
Free to the public
November 08, 2022 @ 1:00 pm | Free to the public
Testimony has always posed challenges for educators: for example, whether to treat it as historical source or personal memory; how testimony transform over time; the trauma-literacy of recipients and the well-being of testimony-givers. Nevertheless, digital technologies introduce further complications, especially concerning access, provenance, ownership, and agency.
October 06, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - October 07, 2022 @ 4:00 pm
At USC for Trojan Family Weekend? Come visit us at Leavey Library! Search the 55,000 testimonies in our Visual History Archive with the help of trained staff. Find out about student internship opportunities.
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Start: October 06, 2022 / 1:00 PM
End: October 07, 2022 / 4:00 PM
Where:
Leavey Library, Los Angeles, CA
Venue:
Leavey Library
650 West McCarthy Way Fourth Floor, Fourth Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
Holocaust Survivor Edward Mosberg, 96, Tireless Advocate for Remembrance
Thu, 09/22/2022 - 5:38pm
USC Shoah Foundation mourns the passing of Edward Mosberg, a Holocaust survivor whose passion for sharing his story through lectures, recorded interviews, and educational trips back to concentration camps in Europe taught and inspired people everywhere. He was 96.
Holocaust survivor Esther Jungreis on observing Rosh Hashanah in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Antisemitism Through Survivor Narratives and Perpetrator Music
Scholar Lab Lecture Series
George Papanek on being engaged with the world around you
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Visualizing the Past, a Lesson of Today
October 24, 2022 @ 10:30 am
Join USC Shoah Foundation and The Leichtag Foundation for a dialogue between film producers and scholars, Konstantin Fam, Clint Burkett, Alan Markowitz, Kori Street and Jacqueline S. Gmach
The pages of my copy of The Giver are totally worn. The cover has been folded and there are subsequent pages with the same type of tear. On the bottom right corner is an advertisement for a special low price of $2.99 and in the upper right corner there is the embedded medal of the John Newbery Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes in literature.
