As Hannah, in the novel The Devil's Arithmetic, needed to have a first-hand experience to fully understand the Holocaust; my students must be equipped with first-hand information, too. While they cannot "time travel" as Hannah does, they can hear from survivors to have a greater understanding of the Holocaust.
education, iwitness, Information Quests, op-eds / Thursday, September 17, 2015
Edward Adler remembers being imprisoned for going on a date with a non-Jewish girl, which violated the Nuremberg Laws, a set of discriminatory, anti-Jewish measures enforced by the Nazi regime in 1935. 
clip, jewish survivor, male, antiSemitism, anti-Jewish, edward adler / Thursday, September 17, 2015
After surviving the Holocaust, Abraham Amaterstein became an arts and culture journalist at a newspaper in Chisinau, Moldova. He wrote a review of a concert by the famed composer Dmitri Shostakovich, and Shostakovich was so pleased with the review that he invited Amaterstein to lunch.
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V posledních týdnech českou společnost rozdělily názory na vlnu uprchlíků mířících i přes naše území do Německa. Archiv vizuální historie USC Shoah Foundation nabízí možnost reflexe současného dění pomocí vzpomínek na historické události podobného rázu. Není to totiž poprvé, co se s uprchlíky setkáváme. Například v letech 1946–1947 přes naše území přešlo až 200 000 židovských běženců, kteří prchali z Polska před nenávistí, násilím a pogromy.
refugees / Thursday, September 17, 2015
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s newest staff member may have just graduated from USC, but she is already a very familiar face around USC Shoah Foundation.Shefali Deshpande has just completed her second week at the Center for Advanced Genocide Research, where she is assisting director Wolf Gruner with the Center’s upcoming events and administration. She graduated with a bachelor’s in political science and musical theater in May 2015.
/ Friday, September 18, 2015
Musician and music scholar Alexandra Birch will discuss the resistance demonstrated by one of the 20th century’s most renowned composers, Dmitri Shostakovich, in her presentation at the Music as Resistance to Genocide academic symposium.
music as resistance, cagr, symposium / Friday, September 18, 2015
Заснований Стівеном Спілбергом Фонд Шоа зберігає тисячі відеосвідчень про Голокост. Фонд Шоа створив Стівен Спілберг після того, як зняв фільм «Список Шиндлера». Сьогодні колекція нараховує 53 тисячі відеосвідчень. Про збереження пам'яті розповідає Анна Ленчовська, українська координаторка Інституту візуальної історії та освіти Фонду Шоа (університет Південної Каліфорнії, США).
/ Monday, September 21, 2015
Students can now get even more creative with their IWitness Information Quests.
iwitness / Monday, September 21, 2015
Eva Foti was one of the few people to make it out alive from the mass shootings on the Danube River in Budapest. She recounts her miraculous survival and a stranger's kind gesture.
/ Monday, September 21, 2015
A new exhibit on the USC Shoah Foundation website takes a closer look at the stories of refugees during World War II. It is inspired by the current refugee crisis in Europe.
online exhibit, exhibit, Czech Republic, Martin Smok, jewish refugees, refugee, Refugee Crisis / Tuesday, September 22, 2015
In an effort to create a deeper engagement with educators online, USC Shoah Foundation’s educational website IWitness hosts monthly Twitter chats.
social media, Twitter, Educators, iwitness, IWitness Chat, Twitter Chat, op-eds / Tuesday, September 22, 2015
One of the members of the 2014 Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century cohort in Hungary didn’t have any need for new lesson plans for his students, and in fact he didn’t even have a first day of school to prepare for: he’s retired. But he didn’t let that stop him from learning about how testimony can be used to teach students about genocide and tolerance.
/ Tuesday, September 22, 2015
USC Shoah Foundation Senior International Program Consultant Martin Šmok has begun teaching a yearlong course at the Ronald Lauder Jewish School in Prague to introduce students to the Visual History Archive and testimony.
Martin Smok, Prague, Czech Republic / Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Musicologist Janie Cole will discuss how “freedom songs” provided an oppressed community with political expression, resistance, therapy, identity, memory and resilience to confront potential violence and death.
cagr, music as resistance, south africa / Thursday, September 24, 2015
Janina Gering talks about the similarities between antisemitism in Europe and racism in South Africa, and considers how both have shaped her as a person.
/ Thursday, September 24, 2015
Rini Sampath USC Student Body President shares how she is inspiring action in her community. #BeginsWithMe
rini Sampath / Thursday, September 24, 2015
We have ample historical evidence that hateful words can be as dangerous as physical violence itself. German poet, Heinrich Heine said in 1821, “He who burns books will soon burn people.”
Rina Sampath, usc, Intolerance, racism, résistance, op-eds / Thursday, September 24, 2015
Robert Hadley taught high school for nearly 20 years before coming to the USC Shoah Foundation as a Regional Consultant earlier this year. He conducts teacher training on using IWitness in the classroom all around the country with a focus on the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.  He is also very involved in social justice issue locally in Portland, Oregon and teacher training internationally. 
/ Friday, September 25, 2015
“I can’t stand coffee!” she said, leaning forward to me before uttering back to the waitress. “Espresso please!” She giggled a little before telling me that espresso was her little dessert in the morning.
Paula Lebovics, ambassadors for humanity, detroit, Bill Ford, educator, op-eds / Sunday, September 27, 2015
Paula Lebovics remembers arriving to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Upon arrival she was asked to sing for everyone in her block. She was nervous, but felt obliged to do so. Luckily for Paula, everyone loved her voice and afterwards she was given special privileges. She remembers getting extra rations of food that she would take back to her mother.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Paula Lebovics, DOR15 / Friday, September 25, 2015
New Dimensions in Testimony, USC Shoah Foundation’s project with Conscience Display to record three-dimensional, interactive testimonies of Holocaust survivors, is set to expand in a big way.
/ Friday, September 25, 2015
Natalia Smith was featured in the film One Day in Auschwitz with Holocaust survivor Kitty Hart-Moxon. Natalia shares how the experience has inspired her to be an advocate.
Begins With Me / Friday, September 25, 2015
beginswithme / Friday, September 25, 2015
Watch and share stories of courage, action and the importance of standing up for tolerance. Click on a video to share the link for #StrongerThanHate
beginswithme, strongerthanhate / Friday, September 25, 2015
Junior Intern Charlotte Masters made a very personal discovery during the trip to Poland and continues to share her experiences today.
past is present, junior interns, Auschwitz70 / Monday, September 28, 2015
Teofil, a political prisoner, describes living in Block 10 in Auschwitz and looking through a window and witnessing a family, with two children, being shot and killed at the Black Wall. He says it was extremely difficult for him to witness.
/ Monday, September 28, 2015
​At the academic symposium, scholars will discuss how music was used as resistance in a number of conflicts around the world. Tina Frühauf will instead focus on the very definition of “resistance” itself.
music as resistance, cagr / Wednesday, September 30, 2015

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