Called Gypsy, Tsigan, Gitane, Cygane, Zigeuner, the Roma people have wandered the world for a thousand years—their mysterious origins a source of fascination as well as suspicion. They’ve been romanticized but also brutally persecuted by the more settled and orderly cultures they’ve traveled through and enriched.
USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education has added a collection of testimonies of survivors and rescuers from the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi genocide to its Visual History Archive. This marks the first integration of testimonies outside of Holocaust survivors and witnesses into the Visual History Archive.
It is with the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising that the Museum of History of Polish Jews will begin its educational and cultural activities in the Museum’s extraordinary new building. From April 19th, 2013, the Museum will open its doors to the public. During the Museum open days, visitors will be invited to take part in the creation of an installation at the Museum Education Center, in art workshops for children, youth and adults, Hebrew and Yiddish, workshops for families, meetings with witnesses of history, and histori
USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education invites proposals for its 2013 Teaching Fellows program. Teaching faculty from all 43 VHA access sites are encouraged to apply. The fellowship provides summer support for instructors interested in creating a new course or modifying an existing course to incorporate testimony from the Visual History Archive. There are no restrictions with respect to the disciplinary approach or methodology of the proposed courses.