USC Digital Journalism Class Demos New Dimensions in Testimony


The questions were tentative at first, but came faster and faster as the students became more comfortable speaking to someone who wasn’t even there.

“How do you feel about the Nazis?”

“Do you remember what your family looked like?”

“Do you have nightmares?”

They started in October – making the trip to USC Shoah Foundation’s home at USC’s Leavey Library once a month, every month to meet, either virtually or physically, and study what attitudes breed hatred and intolerance, how they can spread positive moral authority and how to use the weight of testimony from the Visual History Archive to become active participants in civil society.