Twelve years after the last federally operated Indian Residential School closed in 1996, the government of Canada apologized to the system’s survivors. They’d been put through so much they hadn’t deserved, from forced removals from their families and communities to deprivations of food, their ancestral languages, adequate sanitation; from forced labor and adherence to the Christian faith to physical abuse.
Finding Oscar Screening and Q&A
USC Shoah Foundation Associate Director of Education - Educational Technologies and Training Claudia Wiedeman will participate in a Q&A alongside director Ryan Suffern and subject Freddy Peccerelli after this free screening of "Finding Oscar."
Honoring Holocaust Survivor Authors for National Book Month
Though USC Shoah Foundation specializes in maintaining thousands of recorded testimonies in its Visual History Archive, many of the Institute’s interviewees have also published memoirs and autobiographies.
The following tetimonies were given by survivors who had already written or would go on to write memoirs and other books about their experiences during the Holocaust.