Kigali Genocide Memorial Center Researching Potential for Rwandan Genocide Archive Center

USC Shoah Foundation director of technology Anita Pace is spending the week in Rwanda to work with Kigali Genocide Memorial Center (KGMC) staff on the possibility of building KGMC its own Genocide Archive Center.

The center would be modeled after USC Shoah Foundation’s own Visual History Archive Center, which digitizes, preserves and stores its 52,000 audiovisual testimonies of survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides and provides access to the testimonies to institutions around the world.

Rosalie Franks first heard about Steven Spielberg’s foundation for interviewing Holocaust survivors from an article in the Palm Beach Post in the spring of 1994.

Nearly twenty years later, she says that article has transformed her life.

Franks, a former fourth grade teacher and television reporter, is a professor at Rhode Island’s Roger Williams University. After reading that article in the Palm Beach Post, she applied to be an interviewer and attended a training in New York that November.

Teaching With Testimony in the 21st Century Program for Polish Teachers in Budapest (November 2012)

Teachers across Poland traveled to Hungary last week to attend a workshop organized by USC Shoah Foundation–The Institute for Visual History and Education (the Institute).  The workshop, part of the Institute’s Teaching with Testimony for the 21st Century program, took place at Central European University in Budapest from November 11 to November 16.  During the workshop, the teachers learned how to use interviews with Holocaust survivors and witnesses for education.

 

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