A month after USC Shoah Foundation’s Intercollegiate Diversity Congress (IDC) Summit, Georgia State University Student Government Executive Vice President Jesse Calixte is still buzzing with ideas on how to make his university, the fourth most diverse in the country, more inclusive for all its students. Armed with testimony clips and other USC Shoah Foundation educational tools he obtained during the Summit, Calixte will have plenty with which to make an impact. “Going to this summit was one of my best decisions so far as a student leader,” Calixte said.

USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith and Director of Global Initiatives Karen Jungblut traveled to Bangladesh over the week of Thanksgiving to record interviews with Rohingya refugees who fled genocidal violence in Myanmar.

Rohingya refugee Abdul Hamid explains why the Rohingya people cannot return to Myanmar.

In this lecture, Irina Rebrova discusses her research on the process of remembrance and translation of the memory about the Holocaust in the North Caucasus, South of Russia. She studies the mechanism of storytelling by Holocaust survivors interviewed by the Shoah Foundation in the early Post-Soviet states in the 1990s.

In this lecture, Professor Geraldien von Frijtag Drabbe Künzel explores Jewish-gentile relations in the Netherlands in the years just before, during and just after the Holocaust.

Lucette Valensi, who lived through World War II in Tunisia as a child and is now one of the most influential scholars of North African history, recorded an interview last week for USC Shoah Foundation’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Collection.

After two years of cursory research and interest, Martin Gruber was able to start a full-time job as USC Shoah Foundation’s 2017 Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service intern this October, one entire year early. And he couldn’t be more pleased.

The critically acclaimed 2017 Hungarian film 1945 is the subject of a new English-language IWitness activity, 1945 – Homecoming.

The day after Thanksgiving, the New York Times published an article called “In America’s Heartland, the Nazi Sympathizer Next Door,” by Richard Fausset. It profiles Tony Hovater, a 29-year-old far-right extremist and Nazi sympathizer who lives in the suburbs of Dayton, Ohio.

The book just earned second place for the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research for books published in 2015 and 2016.

Over 85 members of the Glendale, Calif. community attended a presentation organized by the Glendale Public Library on Oct. 26 about the Visual History Archive’s Armenian Genocide testimony collection and educational resources on IWitness.

In a new quantitative study, USC Shoah Foundation will evaluate how teachers’ familiarity with IWitness impacts implementation and students’ learning outcomes.

With an audience of 75 participants, the webinar broke Echoes and Reflections’ record for most people registered and most attended.

Holocaust survivor Alice Craig talks about her cousin, the artist Alice Lok Cahana, and how they reunited decades after the Holocaust.

In this footage following the filming of the 1998 USC Shoah Foundation documentary The Last Days, Holocaust survivor Alice Lok Cahana pays tribute to her sister Edith during a return visit to Bergen Belsen.

Holocaust survivor Alice Lok Cahana, who appeared in the 1998 USC Shoah Foundation documentary The Last Days, is seen here in her art studio, showing one of her paintings to her daughter.

Iberoamericana University in Mexico City is the first university in Latin America to gain full access to the Visual History Archive.

A public lecture by Diane Marie Amann (University of Georgia School of Law & PhD candidate in Law, Universiteit Leiden, the Netherlands) 2017-2018 Breslauer, Rutman and Anderson Research Fellow

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.

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.

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.

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.

Courtesy of The History Channel/A+E Networks

Comcast Xfinity subscribers can watch the film on-demand as part of USC Shoah Foundation’s PastFORWARD broadcast through December 29.

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.

A public lecture by Jennie Burnet (Georgia State University)

A public lecture by Kathryn Brackney (PhD candidate in History, Yale University) 2017-2018 Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies

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.

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.