Éste video descargable contiene clips de testimonios de sobrevivientes judíos del Holocausto del Archivo de Historia Visual de la Fundación Shoah de la USC que nacieron y se criaron en la ciudad polaca de Oświęcim, ahora infame como la ubicación del sistema de campos de Auschwitz creado allí por la ocupación nazi de la administración alemana.

La existencia de la ciudad se remonta al menos al siglo 12. Después de la partición de Polonia en 1772, la ciudad fué anexada al imperio austríaco de los Habsburgo, volviendo al gobierno polaco sólo después del final de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Durante ése tiempo, Oświęcim se convirtió en un centro industrial y un importante nudo ferroviario. La población judía en 1921 era 4.950. En vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, había alrededor de 8.000 Judios en la ciudad, más de la mitad de toda la población . Oświęcim fué ocupado de inmediato al início de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En octubre de 1939, fué anexado en la Gran Alemania.

While protests rage in Ukraine, many Ukrainian teachers are committed to introducing new human rights educational materials to their classrooms. Olha Pedan Slyepukhina has taught middle- and high school history and social studies for 32 years in Ukraine. She was first introduced to the Shoah Foundation in 2007, participating in a teaching seminar called “Encountering Memory” about the film Spell Your Name, which was produced by the Shoah Foundation.

When a select group of eight high school students learn about the Holocaust and genocide each year as part of the Manovill Holocaust History Fellowship at Jewish Family and Children’s Services’ (JFCS) Holocaust Center in San Francisco, they turn to IWitness to create one of the biggest projects of the fellowship.

Ruth Windmuller describes boarding the ship St. Louis, the German ship carrying Jewish refugees who were not permitted to disembark in Cuba upon their arrival on May 27, 1939. The refugees were returned to Britain, Belgium, France, and the Netherlands, and many were killed during the Holocaust.

A new group of educators will learn about testimony-based education and develop their own lessons using the Visual History Archive starting today as part the second Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century program for Polish teachers.

Helena Horowitz describs her self-preservation strategies she used to prevent from being exposed while in hiding.

I first learned about Helena Horowitz’s life history when I found her testimony as I searched through the archive in IWitness the Institute’s educational website featuring the testimonies of survivors and other witnesses to the Holocaust and other genocides.

USC Shoah Foundation’s online exhibit Born in the City that Became Auschwitz is now available in French, Italian, Russian, Slovak, Hungarian, Spanish, Arabic, Polish and Czech. All versions are available here on the USC Shoah Foundation website.

High school vice principal Tetyana Kozhevnikova is eager to share with teachers and students all over Ukraine what she learned at the November 2013 teacher training workshop in Kyiv on the use of a new multimedia teacher’s guide titled Where do Human Rights Begin: History and Contemporary Approaches.

تقارير شاهدي عيان مصدرها السجل التاريخي لمؤسسة USC  المختصة بالمحرقة. الفيديو المرفق يتضمن شهادات بعض اليهود الذين أفلتوا من المحرقة. ولدوا وعاشوا في المدينة البولندية أُسْوِشِمْ ذات السمعة السيئة لتواجد المعتقل الجماعي أوشفيتز الذي أقامه فيها النظام النازي الألماني المحتلّ.قبل معتقل أوشفيتز ، كانت مدينة أُسْوِشِمْ تتضمن مجموعة يهودية نامية. يظهر الفيديو بعض الحقائق عن تاريخ المدينة التي هي محطّ أنظار، بفضل أفراد عاشوا فيها. هذه الشهادات تلقي الضوء على ما حدث.مدته حوالي 28 دقيقة.

يعود وجود المدينة إلى القرن الثاني عشر. بعد انقسام بولندا سنة 1772، ضُمّت المدينة إلى الامبراطورية النمساوية، ثم أُعِيدتْ إلى بولندا في فترة متأخرة بعد نهاية الحرب العالمية الأولى. خلال تلك الفترة، أُسوشم أصبحت مركزا صناعيا وملتقى طرق قطارات. كان عدد سكانها من اليهود عام 1921، أربعة آلاف وتسع مائة وخمسين. وعندما اندلعت الحرب العالمية الثانية كان عدد اليهود في المدينة ثمانية آلاف وأكثر من نصف كجموع السكان. احتلت المدينة في بداية الحرب العالمية الثانية وفي تشرين الأول (أكتوبر) عام 1939 ضُمّت إلى ألمانيا العظمى.

Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) Forum, Room 450USC Shoah Foundation's 2013-2014 Institute Scholar, Dr. Douglas Greenberg, will looks at the lives of Jews before, during, and after the Holocaust in the Wolyn district of modern Ukraine.

Agnes Adachi remembers attending the Olympic Games in Berlin 1936; and describes what it was like to watch Jesse Owens compete and win the gold medal. She recalls that the anti-Jewish restrictions and propaganda had been eased at the time because of the international presence in Germany.

The first in-classroom pilot of IWitness in Rwanda will take place next week at Kagarama Secondary School in Kigali.

He just graduated from high school last year, but Manuel Müller has already begun his first full-time job as USC Shoah Foundation’s 2014 Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service intern.

Former USC Shoah Foundation executive director Douglas Greenberg has begun a two-month residency at USC Shoah Foundation as part of his 2013-2014 Institute Fellowship.

USC Doheny Memorial Library (DML), Room 240.The USC Shoah Foundation together with the USC Gould School of Law International Human Rights Clinic, USC Center for International Studies, the USC Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics, and USC Libraries, proudly presents an evening with distinguished guest Ms. Zainab Hawa Bangura, United Nations Undersecretary-General and Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict.  

Sarah Miller remembers fleeing Nazi controlled France and crossing the border into Switzerland in 1944.

I did not sleep well last night. It was not the kind of sleeplessness brought on by jet lag, stress or workload. It is best described as a kind of numbness that leaves one physically discharged, emotionally drained and deeply troubled. I just completed one the most sedentary days I’ve had in months, just sitting in a chair listening to one of the most intelligent, sophisticated, gentle, yet strong people I know tell me about his life.

Sarah Miller gave testimony to the USC Shoah Foundation in 1997 about her family’s experiences hiding in France and Switzerland during the Holocaust – but she wasn’t finished telling her story just yet.

Professors from across the University of Southern California will come together for a roundtable discussion about the effect of new technologies on humanities classrooms, organized by USC Shoah Foundation and the USC Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics.

Dieses Video ist ein herunterladbarer Zusammenschnitt von mehreren Zeitzeugen-Interviews des USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archivs, welche mit jüdischen Überlebenden geführt wurden, die in der polnischen Stadt Oświęcim geboren wurden und aufgewachsen sind. Heute kennt man Oświęcim als eine Stadt, die von dem Lagerkomplex Auschwitz gezeichnet ist.