Several thousand educators attend event.

KGMC staff members held panel discussion.

Attendees include Canada, United Kingdom and United States delegations.

Secure storage ensures safety and accessibility of archives.

Dr. Street will drive education agenda in multiple countries.

Opening even held in early November.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, in New York, is pleased to announce that starting on Kristallnacht, November 9, it will be the only public institution in New York where visitors can access video testimonies from Holocaust survivors and other witnesses collected by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.

Launch event to be held on campus.

First in a series, aimed at middle and high school educators.

Holocaust literature expert to speak at Leavey Library.

Goal is for an additional 1,000.

PhD candidate studies women's underrepresentation.

Attendees included students from China, India, Italy, Rwanda, and the United States.

TV broadcast features seminar.

From mid-October through mid-December, four staff members from the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center (KGMC) will intern at the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.

Panel will include speakers from Hong Kong, Rwanda, and the United States.

Academy Award® winner Branko Lustig to attend upcoming reception.

First evidence of Hitler's anti-Semitism.

In-depth introduction to video testimonies.

Honoring the 70th anniversary of the Babi Yar tragedy, the Ukrainian Cinema Club in Berlin presented a screening of Spell Your Name, a documentary film by Sergey Bukovsky, co-produced by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. The screening was followed by a discussion with Cristoph Filinger, a journalist and a freelancer at the American Jewish Committee office in Berlin. Leonid Zozovskii, an Institute-interviewed survivor who lived through the Holocaust under false identity in Zelenchukskaia (Ordzhonikidze, Russia, then USSR), attended the screening.

USC Professor Researching Forms of Jewish Defiance

Italy’s National Archives to Launch Web Portal to Survivor Testimonies

Hannah Pollin-Galay discusses how culture and language inform Holocaust testimony

Hannah Pollin-Galay to study how culture and language inform Holocaust testimony

Workshops highlight testimonies of local historical importanceMartin Šmok, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Senior International Program Consultant, gave presentations at a training event for teachers organized by Pant o.s. The event took place at the Summer School of Modern History in Ostrava, Czech Republic on August 29 and 30.

On September 8, Stephen D. Smith, Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, gave a lecture, titled "The Power of Words: Testimony in an Age of Violent Ideologies," and demonstrated the Visual History Archive at the Interdisciplinary Judaic Studies Program of the National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (view photos).  Smith founded the UK Holocaust Centre in Nottinghamshire, England, and cofounded the Aegis Trust for the prevention of crimes against humanity and genocide.

This weekend the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, which maintains an archive of nearly 52,000 testimonies given by survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust, will organize a seminar at the Ukrainian House national center in Kyiv to train teachers on the use of Pain of Memory, a new multimedia kit designed for educators in Ukraine.

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute, which maintains an archive of nearly 52,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses, held a workshop in July that was the next step in its Master Teacher Program. The program empowers secondary school educators in the U.S. to use the Institute’s testimonies as a resource for Holocaust and tolerance education, and the development of literacies for the 21st century.

Students' research suggests new opportunities to utilize geographic data in the testimonies For the second consecutive year, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute was selected to participate as a sponsor organization in the UCLA Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics’ Research in Industrial Projects (RIPS) Program.