Dachau survivor Ernest Gross and liberator Donald Greenbaum meet at a diner. From "The Liberators: Why We Fought," available Nov. 7-December 29, 2017 on Comcast Xfinity's USC Shoah Foundation PastFORWARD broadcast.
/ Friday, December 8, 2017
Herman Cohn reads the letter he wrote to his wife after witnessing the liberation of Dachau. From "The Liberators: Why We Fought," available Nov. 7-December 29, 2017 on Comcast Xfinity's USC Shoah Foundation PastFORWARD broadcast.
/ Friday, December 8, 2017
Jimmy describes an interaction he had with a survivor during the liberation of Dachau. From "The Liberators: Why We Fought," available Nov. 7-December 29, 2017 on Comcast Xfinity's USC Shoah Foundation PastFORWARD broadcast.
/ Friday, December 8, 2017
Dachau survivor Joshua Kauffman talks about survival. From "The Liberators: Why We Fought," available Nov. 7-December 29, 2017 on Comcast Xfinity's USC Shoah Foundation PastFORWARD broadcast.
/ Friday, December 8, 2017
Courtesy of The History Channel/A+E Networks
/ Friday, December 8, 2017
Comcast Xfinity subscribers can watch the film on-demand as part of USC Shoah Foundation’s PastFORWARD broadcast through December 29.
comcast, Dachau liberation, liberator / Friday, December 8, 2017
About a month after USC Shoah Foundation’s Intercollegiate Diversity Congress (IDC) Summit, Georgia College Student Government Association Senator Jessica Kleinman is still abuzz with ideas for positive change on her campus inspired by the Institute. And with testimony clips and other USC Shoah Foundation education resources at her ready, she’ll have abundant opportunities to make an impact.
/ Friday, December 8, 2017
A public lecture by Jennie Burnet (Georgia State University)
cagr / Monday, December 11, 2017
A public lecture by Kathryn Brackney (PhD candidate in History, Yale University) 2017-2018 Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies
cagr / Monday, December 11, 2017
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research offers fellowships to support USC undergraduate students, graduate students, and USC faculty in conducting summer research using testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and/or other unique USC collections and resources. This event features two of the Center's three Summer 2017 research fellows from a variety of disciplines who will share their research and reflect on the use and value of testimonies in their projects.
cagr / Monday, December 11, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation launched one of its newest Polish-language IWitness activities with an ITeach professional development seminar at Ian Kasprowicz High School in Łódź, Poland last weekend.
iTeach, lodz, poland, iwitness / Monday, December 11, 2017
We at USC Shoah Foundation are saddened to hear of the passing of our beloved friend, Holocaust survivor and renowned artist Alice Lok Cahana, who passed away on November 28 at age 88. Through her internationally acclaimed artwork, writings, and public speaking, Alice put forth a message to the world that both memorialized those who perished during the Holocaust and celebrated the strength of the human spirit.
/ Monday, December 11, 2017
On the 80th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre today, the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing, China, debuted its permanent exhibition of New Dimensions in Testimony (NDT), USC Shoah Foundation’s interactive survivor testimony technology.
New Dimensions in Testimony, nanjing, Nanjing Massacre / Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Renowned anthropologist Alexander Hinton gave a public lecture at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research about his new book Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer, which attempts to offer a deeper understanding of Comrade Duch, the notorious head of the S-21 prison, a notorious facility where between 12,000 and 20,000 people were detained, tortured, and ultimately murdered by the Khmer Rouge.
cagr / Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Geraldien von Frijtag Drabbe Künzel, the 2017-2018 Center Research Fellow, gave a public lecture at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research focusing on the relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Netherlands just before, during, and just after the Holocaust. In the lecture, Professor von Frijtag presented some of the preliminary conclusions from her four-month residency conducting research with testimonies housed in the Visual History Archive.
cagr / Thursday, December 14, 2017
One feature of her research is examining the role of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive interviews in the construction of social memory of the Holocaust in the Soviet Jewish community and more widely in the post-Soviet society. During her month-long residency at the Center, Rebrova examined some of the USC Shoah Foundation’s institutional records about the selection, training, and methodology of interviewers in Russia.
cagr / Thursday, December 14, 2017
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites proposals for its 2018-2019 International Teaching Fellowship that will provide support for university and college faculty to integrate testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive (VHA) into new or existing courses.
cagr / Thursday, December 14, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation launched the first in a series of educational activities developed in partnership with the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU). The series incorporates testimony of Armenian Genocide survivors and their descendants with supplementary videos from AGBU WebTalks, and is available to students through the Institute’s award-winning educational website, IWitness.
Armenian Genocide, education, iwitness, AGBU / Thursday, December 14, 2017
A public lecture by Philippe Sands (University College London) Introduction by Prof. Hannah Garry (Director of USC Gould International Human Rights Clinic)
cagr / Thursday, December 14, 2017
Reflections on the recent conferences the USC Shoah Foundation hosted or participated in, and the ways in which these scholarly gatherings enrich the field of genocide studies and demonstrate the value of the Visual History Archive.
cagr, op-eds / Friday, December 15, 2017
“Digital Approaches to Genocide Studies” was the first international conference bringing the fields of digital humanities and genocide studies together. Organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and cosponsored by the USC Digital Humanities Program, the conference convened 23 scholars from all over the world — the United States, Germany, Poland, France, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada.
cagr / Monday, December 18, 2017
In this clip, Beatrice Muchman recalls her favorite holiday when she was a little girl in hiding in the Belgian countryside with a Christian woman who hid her and her cousin. At the time, Beatrice and her cousin had converted to Catholicism. She eventually returned to her Jewish faith particularly through the help of her husband's family.
christmas, jewish survivor, female, hiding, holiday, christian conversion, clip / Wednesday, December 20, 2017
New Dimensions in Testimony has been a work of passion for USC Shoah Foundation since 2010. After years of development at the University of Southern California including with USC Institute for Creative Technologies and with content developer Conscience Display, the program is now reaching audiences in museums around the world.
ndt, New Dimensions in Testimony / Wednesday, December 20, 2017
mickey shapiro, donor, board of councilors / Thursday, December 21, 2017
 联络人:Josh Grossberg 213-740-6065  josh.grossberg@usc.edu 即时发布   中国 南京 - 2017年12月13日 - 作为南京大屠杀80周年纪念活动的一部分,南加州大学犹太大屠杀基金会于国家公祭日当天在侵华日军南京大屠杀遇难同胞纪念馆揭幕首个汉语普通话“证言新维度”交互式幸存者证言。   这是 “证言新维度”项目在美国以外的首次永久性展示,以南京大屠杀幸存者夏淑琴老人为主角。她是本项目迄今为止唯一一位非纳粹犹太大屠杀幸存者的采访对象。 天府银行和天府集团为本次“证言新维度”项目的制作提供了慷慨捐赠。 本演示项目是重新布展的侵华日军南京大屠杀遇难同胞纪念馆核心展示区域的一部分。“证言新维度”运用突破性的自然语言分析软件,让观众得以与大屠杀幸存者的录制影像进行互动。通过复杂的算法,这些影像可以实时回答观众提问,让观众可以与幸存者进行身临其境的交流。
ndt, Nanjing Massacre / Friday, December 29, 2017
In this clip, Robert Waisman, a Jewish survivor of the Dachau concentration camp, and Leon Bass, the American soldier who helped liberate the camp each recall what they saw on April 11, 1945.
liberation, clip reel, dachau / Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Kurt, an American soldier, and Gerda, a Holocaust survivor, recall how they met the day Kurt liberated her from a derelict factory where Nazi soldiers abandoned her and other women during a death march.
liberation, clip reel, death march, Kurt Klein, gerda klein / Tuesday, January 2, 2018
When Elizabeth Holtzman of New York became the youngest woman in American history elected to Congress at age 31, she hadn’t spent much time thinking about Nazi war criminals. But when a whistleblower in 1973 brought to her attention the fact that such perpetrators were living in the United States with full knowledge of the federal government, she decided to use the power of her office to do something about it.
Elizabeth Holtzman / Friday, January 5, 2018
op-eds / Saturday, December 16, 2017
In this clip from testimony recorded in Bangladesh in 2017, Anwar Sadek, a Rohingya refugee, refuses to stay silent about the Myanmar government's treatment of the Rohingya.
/ Friday, January 5, 2018

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