Herschel describes sitting in his camp barracks in Auschwitz-Birkenau and the cultural actions taken by the men imprisoned with him in the death camp.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Tuesday, February 14, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Jewish Holocaust survivor Clara Isaacman explains how she and her Christian friends tried to be inclusive of each other's different holidays.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Wednesday, February 15, 2017
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites proposals for its 2017-2018 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. The fellowship is open to all disciplinary and methodological approaches and will be awarded on a competitive basis to the most interesting project.
cagr / Wednesday, February 15, 2017
The annual conference brings together experts in the field to discuss new research and advances in oral history and its use in a variety of contexts.
iwitness, Czech Republic / Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Over the course of 2016, testimony from USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive contributed to a wide array of published texts, from studies about the methodology of the Institute’s interviewing and cataloguing, to wholly other subjects that pulled from the VHA to back a defined thesis.
cagr / Thursday, February 16, 2017
Inspired by the issues affecting his students in Chicago, high school English teacher Wesley Davidson authored one of USC Shoah Foundation’s new resources for 100 Days to Inspire Respect. Davidson, an English teacher at Chicago Tech Academy, authored an IWitness activity called “To Protect and Serve: Community and Policing,” which is the featured resource today, Day 29 of 100 Days to Inspire Respect.
/ Thursday, February 16, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Lea discusses her experiences joining the Boyle Heights community of Los Angeles when she immigrated to the United States after the Holocaust.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Thursday, February 16, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Three survivors of the Holocaust share memories about their experiences with police during the Holocaust.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, February 17, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Tom, both a Holocaust survivor and US Congressman, explains how his role in the community of the United States has evolved.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, February 17, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Jiryar describes some of his happy memories from his Armenian community before the Armenian Genocide began.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, February 17, 2017
Students will consider the role of identity in making choices to become a bystander and they will build their communication skills that promote respect.
100 days to inspire respect / Friday, February 17, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Ndamyuwera Jean Sothere advocates respect for all people, referencing his Christian faith to make his point
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Tuesday, February 21, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation staff members are in Rwanda this week participating in a colloquium about peace education, hosted by the Institute’s partner in Rwanda, Aegis Trust.
rpep, rwanda / Tuesday, February 21, 2017
My friends Allison (Ally) Vandal, Maya Montell and I worked with our fabulous teacher, Emily Bengels, to create a group called Poet’s Undercover Guild (PUG). With this “guild”, we drew inspiration from testimony found in USC Shoah Foundation’s educational platform, IWitness to create our winning video “A Community of Poetry.”
iwitness, iwitness video challenge, IWVC2017Series, op-eds / Thursday, February 23, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Niddal describes how he took action to promote respect and tolerance in Copenhagen following a 2015 prejudice-fueled terrorist attack on the city's main Jewish synagogue.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect, CATT / Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Educators in the Detroit area are being exposed to IWitness in greater numbers than ever before with the help of Amy Bloom, Oakland Schools Intermediate School District’s Social Studies Education Consultant. Since 2015, Bloom has been involved with IWitness Detroit, USC Shoah Foundation’s initiative to widen student access to IWitness in the greater Detroit area through teacher training seminars – which range from one-day ITeach workshops to last summer’s three-day IWitness Summer Institute.
/ Tuesday, February 21, 2017
To commemorate Digital Learning Day USC Shoah Foundation will broadcast live on Facebook from Vista Murrieta High School of English Language Arts teacher Lesly Culp's classroom as her students complete an IWitness activity.
Digital Learning Day, DLDAY, iwitness, Facebook Live, Facebook / Wednesday, February 22, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Henrietta recalls how her parents taught her to respect all people, especially those less fortunate than she was.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Wednesday, February 22, 2017
The study will examine IWitness’s effectiveness in developing students’ capacity to become more responsible participants in civil society through the educational use of genocide survivor and witness testimony.
monitoring and evaluation, m&e / Thursday, February 23, 2017
To celebrate this year’s Digital Learning Day (#DLDay), USC Shoah Foundation will host a Facebook Live broadcast in English Language Arts teacher Lesly Culp’s classroom as her students complete an IWitness activity.
Digital Learning Day / Wednesday, February 22, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Carl Wilkens, head of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International in Kigali, Rwanda, was the only American who stayed in Rwanda during the genocide. He explains his decision to stay.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, February 24, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Marion remembers the moment her father taught her to treat gay people with respect.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, February 24, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Paul reflects on his hope that his testimony, and all of the testimonies collected by USC Shoah Foundation, can help teach respect to future generations.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, February 24, 2017
The sixth week of 100 Days to Inspire Respect will get students thinking about intolerance and how to counter it through acceptance and empathy.
100 days to inspire respect / Friday, February 24, 2017
Professor Jessica Marglin is passionate about the testimonies of Sephardic Jews in the Visual History Archive, and that passion has rubbed off onto her students as well. Marglin is Ruth Ziegler Early Career Chair in Jewish Studies and Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California. She is a scholar of the history of Jews in the Middle East and teaches an undergraduate course about Sephardic Jews during the Holocaust.
/ Monday, February 27, 2017
The American University of Paris will host a workshop October 26-27, 2017, dedicated to sharing scholars’ experiences conducting research in the Visual History Archive. Applications are due May 9, 2017.
cagr, aup, france / Monday, February 27, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Collection will gain at least five more testimonies this spring when Project Director Jacqueline Semha Gmach travels to Paris for four months.
mena, jacqueline gmach, tname, holocaust / Monday, February 27, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Richard explains how social Darwinism informed the genocidal practices of the Turkish regime during the Armenian Genocide.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Monday, February 27, 2017
In her public lecture on Feb. 9, 2017, at USC, Robert J. Katz Research Fellow Teresa Walch outlines the process by which Jews in Berlin lost their rights, access to public spaces, ability to move freely, and finally their own homes, from 1933-38. Throughout her talk, Walch refers to the testimonies in the Visual History Archive that she has discovered of Holocaust survivors who describe living through this period and its effect on them.
presentation, fellow, cagr, lecture, katz / Monday, February 27, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation has made most likely its final trip to Nanjing, China, to record testimonies of Nanjing Massacre survivors.
/ Tuesday, February 28, 2017

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