Search

Filter by content type:

What started out as a curious journey across the hall at Leavey Library turned into one of Marina Kay’s most passionate endeavors at USC.Kay, currently a senior international relations major, was working on USC’s Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery team at Leavey Library in summer 2014 when she became curious about one particular office that she always passed by in the library – USC Shoah Foundation. She had always been interested in learning about the Holocaust, so one day she decided to go inside, and asked if she could intern or volunteer.

/ Monday, January 25, 2016

Charlotte Masters

Charlotte Masters is a junior at Sidwell Friends in Washington DC. In 2015 she traveled to Poland as a junior intern for the Auschwitz: Past is Present program. After the trip she created the Survivors Speakers Bureau, to bring survivor’s voices into schools in the greater DC area. Charlotte continues as a junior intern with USC Shoah Foundation mentoring the younger students.

/ Monday, January 25, 2016

A year later: Remembering Auschwitz

In January 2015, I had the incredible opportunity to travel to Poland with other students from across the country for USC Shoah Foundation’s and Discovery Education’s Auschwitz: Past is Present program. We toured various sites in Warsaw and Krakow, Poland, with teachers and our friend Paula Lebovics, a survivor of the Holocaust. Each point in the trip was remarkable and extremely inspiring. However, the visit to the Auschwitz-Birkeanu Memorial Museum impacted me the most.

Auschwitz70, reflection, op-eds / Monday, January 25, 2016

New Hungarian-Language IWitness Activity Pilot-Tested in Budapest

A graduate of USC Shoah Foundation’s teacher training programs in Hungary is constructing and pilot-testing the first-ever original Hungarian-language IWitness activity.

iwitness, IWitness activity, Andrea Szőnyi, budapest, hungary, partner school / Monday, January 25, 2016

Yehudah Bakon on Resistance Through Art

Yehudah talks about several painters who were hired to create artwork as reports for the Germans. Many of these painters created illegal paintings that have survived, showing the terrible atrocities of the Holocaust and were sent to a camp as prisoners for their punishment.

clip / Monday, January 25, 2016

Edith Lowy

Edith Lowy describes how her family hid during the Holocaust and after a series of event, the family decided to voluntarily march into the nearby labor camp to avoid the consequences of being caught by the Nazis.

clip, female, edith lowy, jewish survivor, hiding / Monday, January 25, 2016

Stephen Smith Reflects on "Auschwitz: The Past is Present"

Executive Director Stephen Smith discusses the impact of Auschwitz: The Past is Present on USC Shoah Foundation

/ Tuesday, January 26, 2016

The Impact of Visiting Auschwitz

A person doesn’t visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland and come away unchanged, and I was no exception. The empty barracks, the barbed-wire fencing, the solemn exhibits, the telltale chimneys – all these vestiges left a strong impression. But what struck me most was the sheer vastness of the sprawling memorial to history’s most notorious death camp. Walking through Birkenau with my tour group, I gaped at the emptiness stretching for a mile in every direction – nothing but the crumbling remains of buildings half-buried in snow.

Auschwitz70, reflection, GAM, op-eds / Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Auschwitz: Past is Present - A life changing event

In January 2015, I traveled to Poland for the Auschwitz: Past is Present professional development program, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau. This entire experience, was and continues to be a life changing event for me on every level personally, professionally, and academically.

Auschwitz70, reflection, op-eds / Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Ruth Hernandez

Ruth Hernandez is a junior at Esperanza Academy Charter School, in Philadelphia, PA. Hernandez has been involved with USC Shoah Foundation since 2013, when her video Voices of Our Journey is the won 2013 IWitness Video Challenge. In 2015 she traveled to Poland for the Auschwitz: Past is Present program as a junior intern.

/ Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Inspired to Make a Difference

In January 2015, I had the incredible opportunity to travel to Poland with other students, as a junior intern, for USC Shoah Foundation’s and Discovery Education’s Auschwitz: Past is Present program, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Auschwitz70, reflection, op-eds / Tuesday, January 26, 2016

“Auschwitz: The Past is Present”’s Educational Legacy in Poland

APIP has been a powerful force for Polish teachers over the past year, says Polish Regional Consultant Monika Koszynska.

apip, poland, mhpj, Monika Koszynska / Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Visiting Auschwitz: How it changed my teaching

As the first anniversary of my life-changing trip to Poland is upon me, I take time to reflect on the impact that trip has made on me both personally and professionally. I have learned so much from my experiences as a teacher in USC Shoah Foundation’s and Discovery Education’s Auschwitz: The Past is Present program.

Auschwitz70, reflection, op-eds / Wednesday, January 27, 2016

IWitness Teacher Trainings and Presentations in Chicago

USC Shoah Foundation's Chicago Regional Consultant Brandon Barr has been busy introducing IWitness to educators in the Midwest.

chicago, brandon barr, iwitness / Thursday, January 28, 2016

Oscar Abend on Living in Chicago

Oscar Abend describes how he made a living for himself and his family in Chicago after surviving the Holocaust.

clip / Thursday, January 28, 2016

Armenian Scholar Donates Four-Volume Research Book to USC Shoah Foundation

“The Extermination of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire” will be used by scholars and and researchers currently indexing testimonies of Armenian Genocide survivors.

Armenian Genocide, armenian film foundation, indexing / Friday, January 29, 2016

Call for Applications: 2016-2017 Rutman Fellowship for Research and Teaching at University of Pennsylvania

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites proposals for its 2016-2017 Rutman Fellowship for Research and Teaching that will provide summer support for one member of the University of Pennsylvania faculty to integrate testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive (VHA) into a new or existing course. .