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USC Shoah Foundation Senior International Program Consultant Martin Šmok has begun teaching a yearlong course at the Ronald Lauder Jewish School in Prague to introduce students to the Visual History Archive and testimony.
Martin Smok, Prague, Czech Republic / Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Musicologist Janie Cole will discuss how “freedom songs” provided an oppressed community with political expression, resistance, therapy, identity, memory and resilience to confront potential violence and death.
cagr, music as resistance, south africa / Thursday, September 24, 2015
Janina Gering talks about the similarities between antisemitism in Europe and racism in South Africa, and considers how both have shaped her as a person.
/ Thursday, September 24, 2015
Rini Sampath USC Student Body President shares how she is inspiring action in her community. #BeginsWithMe
rini Sampath / Thursday, September 24, 2015
We have ample historical evidence that hateful words can be as dangerous as physical violence itself. German poet, Heinrich Heine said in 1821, “He who burns books will soon burn people.”
Rina Sampath, usc, Intolerance, racism, résistance, op-eds / Thursday, September 24, 2015
Robert Hadley taught high school for nearly 20 years before coming to the USC Shoah Foundation as a Regional Consultant earlier this year. He conducts teacher training on using IWitness in the classroom all around the country with a focus on the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. He is also very involved in social justice issue locally in Portland, Oregon and teacher training internationally.
/ Friday, September 25, 2015
“I can’t stand coffee!” she said, leaning forward to me before uttering back to the waitress. “Espresso please!” She giggled a little before telling me that espresso was her little dessert in the morning.
Paula Lebovics, ambassadors for humanity, detroit, Bill Ford, educator, op-eds / Sunday, September 27, 2015
Paula Lebovics remembers arriving to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Upon arrival she was asked to sing for everyone in her block. She was nervous, but felt obliged to do so. Luckily for Paula, everyone loved her voice and afterwards she was given special privileges. She remembers getting extra rations of food that she would take back to her mother.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Paula Lebovics, DOR15 / Friday, September 25, 2015
New Dimensions in Testimony, USC Shoah Foundation’s project with Conscience Display to record three-dimensional, interactive testimonies of Holocaust survivors, is set to expand in a big way.
/ Friday, September 25, 2015
Natalia Smith was featured in the film One Day in Auschwitz with Holocaust survivor Kitty Hart-Moxon. Natalia shares how the experience has inspired her to be an advocate.
Begins With Me / Friday, September 25, 2015
Watch and share stories of courage, action and the importance of standing up for tolerance. Click on a video to share the link for #StrongerThanHate
beginswithme, strongerthanhate / Friday, September 25, 2015
Junior Intern Charlotte Masters made a very personal discovery during the trip to Poland and continues to share her experiences today.
past is present, junior interns, Auschwitz70 / Monday, September 28, 2015
Teofil, a political prisoner, describes living in Block 10 in Auschwitz and looking through a window and witnessing a family, with two children, being shot and killed at the Black Wall. He says it was extremely difficult for him to witness.
/ Monday, September 28, 2015
At the academic symposium, scholars will discuss how music was used as resistance in a number of conflicts around the world. Tina Frühauf will instead focus on the very definition of “resistance” itself.
music as resistance, cagr / Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Katarzyna Łaziuk is a graduate of USC Shoah Foundation’s Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century professional development program and is committed to educating her students about the Holocaust – almost entirely outside her own classroom.
/ Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Thurs., Oct. 1 is your chance to interact live on Twitter with USC Shoah Foundation archivists Sandra Aguilar and Daryn Eller.
#askanarchivist, Ask an Archivist Day, sandra aguilar, daryn eller, its / Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Norweigan political prisoner Reidar Dittmann describes the various ways he and other prisoners wrote and performed music in Buchenwald.
/ Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Holocaust survivor George Papanek encourages people to "think globally, act locally," and work together to create a better world.
/ Wednesday, September 30, 2015
USC Shoah Foundation archivist Sandra Aguilar interprets and formats information and details about the interviewees and the interviews to be brought into the database systems of the Visual History Archive. She is also a liaison between USC Shoah Foundation’s research specialists and database programmers to develop ways for the testimonies to be searched and experienced.
/ Wednesday, September 30, 2015
The Visual History Archive contains 53,000 eyewitness testimonies to genocide and mass atrocities. What you might not know is that each testimony is indexed to the minute with over 62,000 keys words in the entire Archive. USC Shoah Foundation commemorates National Archives Month this November by participating in #AskAnArchivist Day on Thurs., Oct. 1, and sharing 10 more unique facts about the Visual History Archive.
AskanArchivist, National Archives Month, visual history archive, op-eds / Thursday, October 1, 2015
A few familiar faces and many more new students attended the first session of the 2015-16 Junior Intern program at USC Shoah Foundation this weekend.
junior interns / Thursday, October 1, 2015
Three different video clips from Roman Kent's tesitmony including life before, during and after the Holocaust.
clip, clip, male jewish survivor, male jewish survivor, roman kent, roman kent / Thursday, October 1, 2015
A series of clips from survivors speaking about their experiences with personal as well as institutional forms of discrimination. These clips include testimonies from the European Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda collections.
tcv, discrimination / Thursday, October 1, 2015
Several people responded to active discrimination by helping the victims in different ways. This is a collection of clips highlighting testimony from survivors and aid givers themselves. One question that sometimes emerges in these clips is "what made you stand up to discrimination and racial intolerance?"
tcv, discrimination, aid giving, rescue / Thursday, October 1, 2015
At the end of each interview the Institute recorded for the Archive, the interviewer would ask the interviewee if he or she had a special message for future generations watching the interview. The survivors and other witnesses often spoken about such themes as forgiveness, the importance of individual action, and the need to teach children tolerance. Here are a few messages from the Institute's Archive.
tcv, future message, message to the future / Thursday, October 1, 2015
By Eric LindbergUSC School of Social WorkAs an adoptee from Taiwan growing up in San Antonio, Texas, Priscilla Hefley struggled to find her identity.To avoid being seen as an outsider, she embraced the mainstream culture. It wasn’t until college that she began to reconnect with her roots and what it meant to be a Chinese American.“Adoptees can have a sense of not really being American and not really being Chinese,” she said. “It was a real struggle. Where exactly do I fit?”
/ Thursday, October 1, 2015
A collection of clips from the Institute Archive that focus on interviewees describing particular feelings and emotions they experienced, such as fear, gratitude, and attitudes about others.
tcv / Wednesday, September 30, 2015
One of Poland's most beloved films is a unique example of music uniting both Jews and gentiles in the immediate post-war period that would soon become very difficult to find anywhere else.
cagr, music as resistance, warsaw / Friday, October 2, 2015
Ralph Friedman recalls the songs he used to hear in the Vilnius ghetto, including one about a resistance leader who turned himself in to the commandant.
/ Friday, October 2, 2015