Marion Pritchard a member of the Dutch resistance movement, recounts her experience hiding a Jewish family. In this compilation of clips from Marion's testimony she describes how she killed a Nazi in order to save the lives of the Jewish family she was hiding.
clip, marion pritchard, holocaust, dutch resistance / Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Marion Pritchard a member of the Dutch resistance movement remembers the use of anti-Jewish propaganda when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands. She speaks on how the Nazis used education tools to separate the rest of the population from the Jews.
clip, female, rescurer, marion pritchard, dutch resistance, propaganda / Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Marion Pritchard a member of the Dutch resistance movement remembers the use of anti-Jewish propaganda when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands. She speaks on how the Nazis used education tools to separate the rest of the population from the Jews.
clip, female, rescurer, marion pritchard, dutch resistance, propaganda / Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Clips from the testimony of Dutch rescurer and aid provider Marion Pritchard.
marion pritchard, résistance, rescurer, In memory / Wednesday, December 21, 2016
We at USC Shoah Foundation are saddened to learn about the passing of Marion Pritchard, a Dutch woman of great courage who rescued many Jews during the Holocaust. She was 96.
/ Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Emily Bengels is a middle school teacher of Gifted and Talented students at Readington Middle School in New Jersey. She also is in charge of the Enrichment program in her school. Bengels attended the 2015 Auschwitz: The Past is Present professional development program in Poland led by USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education to commemorate the 70th anniversary 
/ Thursday, December 22, 2016
Los Angeles, Dec. 27, 2016 – As the United States prepares to inaugurate a new president, USC Shoah Foundation has announced the first 10 testimony-based educational resources for its “100 Days to Inspire Respect,” an IWitness educational program modeled after the aggressive 100-day agenda initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he took office in 1933.
100 Days / Tuesday, December 27, 2016
This morning, I stood at attention as our select chorus sang the Star Spangled Banner. Looking at the flag in the middle school auditorium, I paused a moment to feel gratitude for growing up in a country where I have the right to define and redefine myself. I grew up believing I could become whoever I wanted to be. The flag stood tall, as did I. Thank goodness, I thought, that I live in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.
iwitness video challenge, iwitness, education, past is present, op-eds / Thursday, December 22, 2016
#IWitnessChat, iwitness video challenge / Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Kari Shagena is combining poetry and Holocaust survivor testimony to inspire empathy and action in her students following an IWitness seminar in Michigan last summer. Shagena, a language arts and social studies teacher at Richmond Middle School, was one of over dozen Michigan educators who attended USC Shoah Foundation’s IWitness Summer Institute in Farmington Hills this past August, a three-day seminar that introduced educators to everything they need to know to incorporate testimonies and activities from IWitness into their classrooms.
/ Thursday, January 5, 2017
Learn about the 10 educational resources that USC Shoah Foundation will debut for the first 10 days of its "100 Days to Inspire Respect" program, launching January 20.
iwitness, 100 days to inspire respect / Thursday, January 5, 2017
While translating Armenian testimonies given in rare dialects, two families made surprise discoveries about their own family history.
Armenian Genocide Collection / Friday, January 6, 2017
The foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” (German acronym EVZ) is hosting an international workshop on the use of Holocaust survivor testimonies in education January 9-11.
/ Monday, January 9, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation’s latest quarterly stats update shows remarkable gains in its testimony access and academic and educational outreach over the past year.
stats, visual history archive, proquest, iwitness / Tuesday, January 10, 2017
In the field of genocide studies and human rights, storytelling is the most impactful way to give information weight. And the first step to doing justice to the stories and the survivors who provide their testimonies is ensuring they’re translated accurately and with context.
/ Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Director of USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research Wolf Gruner will moderate a panel at UCLA exploring the historical and cultural contexts of the works of Rabbi Joachim Prinz and composer Kurt Weill right before World War II.
cagr, wolf gruner / Wednesday, January 11, 2017
At a time of heightened political uncertainty and polarization, middle and high school teachers are in need of easy-to-use resources that encourage their students to grapple with some of the most difficult but important topics: hate, racism, intolerance and xenophobia.
100 Days / Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Kerry Washington was the special guest at the 2016 Ambassadors for Humanity gala honoring Mellody Hobson and George Lucas.
/ Wednesday, January 11, 2017
USC President C. L. Max Nikias speaking at the 2016 Ambassadors for Humanity gala honoring Mellody Hobson and George Lucas.
/ Wednesday, January 11, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation executive director Stephen Smith speaking at the 2016 Ambassadors for Humanity gala honoring Mellody Hobson and George Lucas. Also speaking are Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter and Chicago-area students Lynette Lucero and Joshua Stone who both participate in After School Matters
/ Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Steven Spielberg, founder of USC Shoah Foundation, introducing the 2016 Ambassador for Humanity award honorees Mellody Hobson and George Lucas.
/ Wednesday, January 11, 2017
George Lucas accepting his Ambassador for Humanity award at the 2016 gala held in Los Angeles.
/ Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Mellody Hobson's acceptance speech at the 2016 Ambassadors for Humanity gala, held in Los Angeles on December 8, 2016.
/ Wednesday, January 11, 2017
afh2016, afh, ambassadors for humanity, Mellody Hobson, george lucas, Max Nikias, Steven Spielberg, Stephen Smith / Wednesday, January 11, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation’s soon-to-launch IWitness initiative, called “100 Days to Inspire Respect,” provides teachers of civics, history, English and other subjects with 100 thought-provoking resources that tackle hate, racism, intolerance, xenophobia and more.
iwitness, 100 days to inspire respect / Thursday, January 12, 2017
A lecture by Teresa Walch (University of California, San Diego) 2016-2017 Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies    
cagr / Thursday, January 12, 2017
A lecture by Katja Schatte (University of Washington) 2016-2017 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow
cagr / Thursday, January 12, 2017
The conference for policy-makers, media representatives and NGOs will focus on refugee policies from 1933 to the present day.
ihra, Refugee Crisis, refugee, refugees / Thursday, January 12, 2017
A lecture by Lee Ann Fujii (University of Toronto / Institute for Advanced Study 2016-2017)  
cagr / Thursday, January 12, 2017
Though the topic of sexual violence against women during genocide is notoriously under-researched, sexual violence against men is even more so. And that’s what USC Shoah Foundation’s 2016-2017 A.I. and Manet Schepps Foundation Teaching Fellow at Texas A&M Tommy Curry hopes to change.
cagr, texas, teaching fellow / Friday, January 13, 2017

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