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November 2 marks the 70th anniversary of the mass deportation of the Karachai people, who Soviet authorities accused of having collaborated with the Germans during World War II. Over 70,000 Karachais were transported in cattle cars in deplorable conditions from the North Caucasus to Central Asia, beginning on November 2, 1943.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Sergey Albert, Karachai, déportation / Friday, November 1, 2013
The 10-part Echoes and Reflections series continues with Lesson 8: Survivors and Liberators.
echoes and reflections, survivor, liberator, education, teaching, testimony / Friday, November 1, 2013
Ian Zdanowicz is making the most out of his month at USC Shoah Foundation.
Zdanowicz is the recipient of the Visiting PhD Fellowship from the USC Dornsife 2020 Genocide Resistance Research Cluster, which is led by USC Shoah Foundation executive director Stephen Smith and Wolf Gruener, Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History.
/ Monday, November 4, 2013
Over the last three months, USC Shoah Foundation has increased its presence in academia, schools and on the web, according to its latest Institute Statistics report.
statistics / Monday, November 4, 2013
Hanna Nelson recalls working for the German army in the Riga ghetto in Latvia. Hannah explains how her job had saved her life because when she returned from work one day the ghetto had been liquidated.
clip, jewish survivor, female, riga ghetto, Hannah Nelson / Tuesday, November 5, 2013
USC students who have entered this year’s Student Voices Short Film Contest can learn everything they need to know about making and editing films using testimony at a series of three workshops this Saturday.
student voices, student film, visual history archive / Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Sigmund Tobias and his family fled Berlin, Germany, and arrived in the Hongkew district of Shanghai about June 1939. There, he attended the Shanghai Jewish Youth Association School and the Mir Yeshiva. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Tobias family, along with most of the Jewish refugees in Shanghai, were forced by the Japanese to live, under difficult conditions, in the Hongkew ghetto. He describes his visit to Shanghai in 1988, almost 50 years after his arrival there as a refugee from Germany.
clip, male, jewish survivor, sigmund tobias, Shanghai / Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Yehuda Bauer, a pioneer of Holocaust studies, and Xu Xin, who introduced the subject to universities in China, will participate in a discussion on Thursday hosted by USC Shoah Foundation.
yehuda bauer, lecture / Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Yehuda Bauer and Xu Xin have each led vastly different lives. But they both ended up as two of the world’s most respected and influential Holocaust scholars.
For Bauer, the journey began in Czechoslovakia, where he was born in 1926. He and his family immigrated to Israel in 1939, just before World War II, and he graduated from Cardiff University in Wales after fighting in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He received his PhD in 1960 at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and began teaching at its Institute for Contemporary Jewry the following year.
/ Wednesday, November 6, 2013
杨女士讲述了1937年南京的大屠杀以及她的家人所遭受的损失。她至今还清楚地记得日本士兵的暴行。杨女士解释了为什么她的家人未能在屠杀之前逃离那个地区
/ Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Amy Carnes, USC Shoah Foundation associate director of education - evaluation and scholarship, traveled to Chicago last week to observe and evaluate IWitness in action.
iwitness, evaluation / Thursday, November 7, 2013
贝托尔德•卡兹谈到了一名当时负责为生活在上海虹口隔都的犹太人发放每月通行证的名叫合屋的日本官员，回忆起了合屋对隔都居民的粗暴施虐 。
/ Thursday, November 7, 2013
希尔德加德女士回忆了她于1947年秋乘坐“海军陆战队蝰蛇”号美国海军运输船从上海前往加州旧金山的经历。她解释说这次旅行是由美犹联合救济委员会（JDC）资助的。
/ Thursday, November 7, 2013
米莉阿姆女士阐述说，生活在中国上海的犹太难民并没有在战后留在上海的意向，这在某种程度上帮助他们保留了在战争中生存下来的希望。
/ Thursday, November 7, 2013
伊娃讲述了虹口隔都居民间的人际关系，并回忆了她和家人是如何在那样艰难的情况下与其他人建立友谊、保持人性的。
/ Thursday, November 7, 2013
IWitness teacher trainings have been held in countries all over the world; now, Rwanda can add itself to the list.
/ Thursday, November 7, 2013
Sigi Hart remembers the celebration of his Bar Mitzvah in the ruins of the burnt down synagogue his family attended in Berlin, Germany. He recalls it took place a few days following the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) in November 1938.
clip, jewish survivor, Sigi Hart, kristallnacht, male / Friday, November 8, 2013
In 1943, Don Shimazu, joined the US Army, like many other Japanese-American soldiers, to prove his loyalty to the United States. He participated in the liberation of the Dachau Concentration Camp as a member of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion organized as part of the 442nd Regimental Combat team. Don explains how this experience influenced his values and attitudes in his postwar life.
clip, male, liberator, veteran, Don Shimazu, dachau / Friday, November 8, 2013
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.
/ Monday, November 11, 2013
In November 1938 a pogrom broke out throughout Germany and across the Sudetenland. Tom Tugend remembers hearing the mob and the breaking of glass outside his family’s home in Berlin during Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass.”
clip, jewish survivor, male, Tom Tugend, kristallnacht / Monday, November 11, 2013
Renowned Holocaust scholars Yehuda Bauer and Xu Xin discussed the past, present and future of Holocaust studies in a lively conversation moderated by USC Shoah Foundation executive director Stephen Smith on Thursday.
yehuda bauer, xu xin, Stephen Smith, lecture / Monday, November 11, 2013
Ann Monka was born in Lida a small town with a prosperous Jewish population in Poland. Ann and her mother were separated from her brother, sister and father after escaping the Lida Ghetto. Ann remembers when she and her mother hid in the Polish forests with the Bielski Partisans, while the rest of her family escaped deportations by jumping from the Nazi transport trains.
clip, female, jewish survivor, ann monka, poland / Tuesday, November 12, 2013
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.
visual history archive, technology / Tuesday, November 12, 2013
During its Week of Holocaust Remembrance, Stephen Smith and Pinchas Gutter helped the College of Saint Elizabeth not only honor the past, but also consider the future of Holocaust remembrance and education.
Stephen Smith, Pinchas Gutter, holocaust, education, new dimensions / Tuesday, November 12, 2013
opposition, lesson, clip, male, jewish survivor / Tuesday, November 12, 2013