Megan Maybray
One night last week, Megan Maybray was panicking.
A Holocaust survivor named Rita Ross was visiting her school, Kennett Middle School near Philadelphia, the next day, but Maybray was having trouble teaching her ESL students about the Holocaust. Her students are new arrivals to the United States and most know little English. Maybray had never really taught the Holocaust before and could tell that her previous attempt to introduce them to the basics had not had much of an impact.
USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education to Host Virtual Experience on May 13
Wed, 04/29/2015 - 5:00pm
USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education will host an interactive virtual experience for middle- and high-school students worldwide to provide a deeper understanding of the Holocaust.
Women Share Powerful Stories of Genocide Survival and Reconstruction
Women Share Powerful Stories of Genocide Survival and Reconstruction
Tue, 04/28/2015 - 5:00pm
USC’s Human Rights and Genocide Awareness Week concluded last night with a moving discussion of women’s experiences during and after genocide, featuring survivors of the Guatemalan, Armenian and Rwandan Genocides.
Stephen Smith on the testimony of Armin Wegner
At Auschwitz-Birkenau, the silence and the song
Snow brings a strange silence. No more so than in the vastness of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where on Jan. 27 we all began several months of remembering the unfolding of the liberation of the Nazi camps 70 years ago. That day, I walked alongside Los Angeles resident Dario Gabbai in the soft glow of candles and the shuffle of feet in freshly fallen snow.