Polish teachers train to use Holocaust survivor interviews in the classroom: With workshop at Central European University, Institute completes inaugural year of new education initiative in Europe

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.

IWitness Pilot Project in Italy

From November 18-20, 2012, the USC Shoah Foundation and the Italian Ministry of Education organized an educational pilot program in Abano Terme, Italy.  Teachers and students from high schools across the country attended the workshop to explore usability and feasibility of IWitness, the Foundation's internet resource for teachers and students, in the Italian education context.  The workshop objectives were twofold:  teachers focused on developing their ability to run the classroom pilots, whereas students tested their skills on working with the platform.  During the sess

POLSCY NAUCZYCIELE UCZĄ SIĘ JAK UŻYWAĆ RELACJE OCALAŁYCH Z HOLOKAUSTU W KLASIE

Podczas warsztatu odbywającego się na Uniwersytecie Środkowoeuropejskim Fundacja Shoah Uniwersytetu Południowej Kalifornii dopełnia pierwszy rok realizacji nowego projektu edukacyjnego w Europie

BUDAPESZT—17 listopada, 2012— w ubiegłym tygodniu nauczyciele z całej Polski przyjechali na Węgry, aby wziąć udział w warsztatach zorganizowanych przez Fundację Shoah – Instytut Historii Wizualnej i Edukacji na Uniwersytecie Południowej Kalifornii. Warsztaty, część programu Nauczanie z użyciem relacji w 21.

“There your memory runs like a camera back”: Oral history in post-apartheid South Africa

The Institute invites you to a lecture by Dr. Sean Field, Director of the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Popular Memory, which documents the oral histories of refugees, victims of violence and displacement, and others who suffered under apartheid and its legacy. Dr. Field will evaluate the outcomes of various methodologies oral history researchers have used to preserve memories of apartheid; his lecture will take place this Thursday, November 15 at 6:00 pm, in the Ronald Tutor Campus Center, Room 227.

Symposium on sexual violence during the Holocaust, Jane Fonda dramatic reading, November 8, 2012

A historic international symposium on sexual violence during the Holocaust took place on November 7–8, 2012, convened by USC Shoah Foundation–The Institute for Visual History and Education, and Remember the Women Institute.  The approximately 20 academics and activists who participated have all worked on this issue, which has been overlooked by most historians for nearly 70 years.  A highlight of the two-day symposium was a public event with Oscar-winning actress Jane Fonda on November 8, also co-

Master Teachers to introduce IWitness at national educator conference

Graduates of the Institute’s Master Teacher Program will debut IWitness next week at the 2012 National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Annual Conference, demonstrating how the award-winning website, now in beta, weaves together digital literacy development, online citizenship, and tolerance education based on the life stories of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses.

IWitness in Australia

When the Institute sent teams around the world to gather video testimony from survivors and eyewitnesses of the Holocaust, more than 2,500 Australians came forward. Nearly 20 years later, the Institute is once again in Australia; this time, the focus is on students.

In partnership with Education Services Australia Limited (ESA), the Institute is exploring the possibility of integrating its award-winning website IWitness (currently in beta) into the Australian national curriculum. About IWitness

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