Towards recommendations for working with Holocaust testimony in the digital age

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.

Trojan Family Weekend

Leavey Library
650 West McCarthy Way Fourth Floor
Fourth Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90089
United States

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.

Visualizing the Past, a Lesson of Today

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

Who is The Memory Generation?

By: Rachael Cerrotti, Storyteller in Residence

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.
Rachael Cerrotti, Storyteller in Residence
Rachael Cerrotti is an award winning author, producer and documentary storyteller as well as the inaugural Storyteller in Residence for USC Shoah Foundation. She is the granddaughter behind 'We Share The Same Sky' and the host of 'The Memory Generation' podcast. Learn more at www.rachaelcerrotti.com.

The Holocaust as a Global Archetype? The Position of the Jewish Genocide in Rwanda’s National Memory Culture

Social Sciences Building, Room 250
3502 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, CA 90089
United States

A public lecture by Charlotte Kiechel (Williams College)
2021-2022 USC Shoah Foundation Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies
(Join us in person for this lecture or attend virtually on Zoom)

Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the USC Shoah Foundation

Subscribe to