Teachers in Komárno are Introduced to USC Shoah Foundation Institute Testimonies
June 13, 2011
June 13, 2011
On Monday, May 9, Steven Spielberg, Founder of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, presented Comcast Chairman and CEO Brian L. Roberts with its highest honor, the Ambassador for Humanity award. Roberts was recognized for his visionary leadership and philanthropic work in education and technology. Jon Bon Jovi was special musical guest. This is a photo essay of the event, which took place in Roberts' hometown of Philadelphia.
Photos by Jeremy Messler Photography LLC
More than 13,000 pre-service and in-service educators and community leaders have been trained on Echoes and Reflections, a multimedia curriculum on the Holocaust created by the the Anti-Defamation League, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, and Yad Vashem.
On April 7, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute honored students from across the University who made short films using footage from the Institute’s archive of nearly 52,000 videotaped testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses. The awards ceremony, screening, and panel discussion, made possible by Visions and Voices and HBO, were the culmination of the Student Voices short film competition, which invited all USC students to use the Institute’s archive in order to shape the conversation about violence and genocide. Among the competition jury and on the panel was Academ