University of Southern California digital journalism and history major Christina Schoellkopf will spend the summer conducting research for her senior thesis in USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive as a 2014 research fellow.

Roman Weingarten describes the traditions of Passover including cleaning of the home to remove all traces of chametz, leavened products. Strict dietary laws prohibit the consumption of leavened substances for the eight days of the holiday. Also known as Pesach in Hebrew, the holiday commemorates the Exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt.

USC Shoah Foundation has embarked on a partnership with Windward School - its first partner school in Los Angeles - to introduce Windward's teachers to the methodology of teaching with testimony and to integrate testimony-based educational activities into the school's curriculum.