Outside the Box [Office] ScreeningFinding HillywoodFollowed by a discussion with filmmakers Eric Kabera and Ni’coel StarkUSC School of Cinematic Arts, The Ray Stark Family Theater (SCA 108)

Screening of Keepers of Memory Survivors’ Accounts of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda Followed by a Q&A session with Eric Kabera, Director Friday, March 7, Leavey Auditorium

Alice Herz-Sommer plays the radio broadcast recording of her performance at eight years old of two piano pieces by German composer, Robert Schumann. Alice died February 23, 2014 in England; she was 110 years old and the oldest known Holocaust survivor.

Speaking at USC on Feb. 20, Zainab Hawa Bangura, the United Nations Undersecretary-General and Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, said that sexual assault is a deliberate tactic used to demoralize not only women – its most frequent targets – but also destroy families and tear apart communities.

Joel Abarbanel recalls being able to listen to radio broadcasts from England on a small radio while imprisoned in Saint-Denis-lès-Sens internment camp in France. He  remembers when the camp was liberated by allied forces and hearing the ringing of the bells.

USC Shoah Foundation’s work in Poland has come a long way since filming of founder Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List began in Krakow in 1993. Today, it is an important site for USC Shoah Foundation's testimony-based educational programs and resources.

Monika Koszyńska says she feels privileged to be USC Shoah Foundation’s international liaison in Poland, but is also acutely aware of the magnitude of work to be done.Koszyńska joined the USC Shoah Foundation staff as its international liaison in Poland in 2002, though she had been familiar with Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation since the mid-1990s, when she was a teacher at a primary school.