Filter by content type:
- Media (2616) Apply Media filter
- Article (2388) Apply Article filter
- Event (498) Apply Event filter
- Profile (472) Apply Profile filter
- Playlist (341) Apply Playlist filter
- Author (129) Apply Author filter
- Landing Page (102) Apply Landing Page filter
- Donor Profile (88) Apply Donor Profile filter
- Staff (76) Apply Staff filter
- Press Release (63) Apply Press Release filter
- Public Document (55) Apply Public Document filter
- Exhibit (30) Apply Exhibit filter
- Creative Storytelling (13) Apply Creative Storytelling filter
- Collections Page (10) Apply Collections Page filter
- Job (2) Apply Job filter
- Home Page (1) Apply Home Page filter
Filter by date created:
- 2014 (1304) Apply 2014 filter
- 2013 (981) Apply 2013 filter
- 2016 (918) Apply 2016 filter
- 2015 (912) Apply 2015 filter
- 2017 (710) Apply 2017 filter
- 2020 (373) Apply 2020 filter
- 2018 (338) Apply 2018 filter
- 2022 (275) Apply 2022 filter
- 2021 (270) Apply 2021 filter
- 2023 (200) Apply 2023 filter
- 2019 (182) Apply 2019 filter
- 2012 (124) Apply 2012 filter
- 2024 (90) Apply 2024 filter
- 2011 (77) Apply 2011 filter
- 2010 (46) Apply 2010 filter
- 2009 (28) Apply 2009 filter
- 2007 (20) Apply 2007 filter
- 2008 (14) Apply 2008 filter
- 2005 (9) Apply 2005 filter
- 2002 (5) Apply 2002 filter
- 1999 (2) Apply 1999 filter
- 1996 (1) Apply 1996 filter
- 1998 (1) Apply 1998 filter
- 2000 (1) Apply 2000 filter
- 2001 (1) Apply 2001 filter
- 2004 (1) Apply 2004 filter
- 2006 (1) Apply 2006 filter
The first-ever winner of the IWitness Video Challenge has been chosen: Voices of Our Journey, by Ruth Hernandez.
iwitness video challenge, immigration / Monday, April 14, 2014
Martin Aaron describes his experience of being liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, April 1945.
clip, male, jewish survivor, bergen belsen, martin aaron / Tuesday, April 15, 2014
April 7, 2014: USC students in the Shoah Foundation Student Association coordinated a vigil for the 20th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, structured around "Remember, Unite, Renew" -- the three themes of Kwibuka20, the international movement to commemorate 20 years since the genocide.
Students read excerpts of survivor testimony, gave speeches, performed an original piano-violin duet (written by 2013 PWP Rwanda student Ambrose Soehn), and gathered for a traditional Rwandan dance performance.
presentation, rwanda, sfisa / Tuesday, April 15, 2014
David Tomkins’ students will learn about global rhetorics of survival through testimonies from the Visual History Archive following Tomkins’ teaching fellowship this summer at the USC Shoah Foundation.
/ Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Rose Kohn remembers how her mother’s life was spared during the camp selection process in Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Rose and her mother, Mary were then transferred to Bergen-Belsen. Mary and her daughter survived several concentration camps together and after liberation immigrated to the United States.
clip, female, jewish survivor, rose kohn, auschwitz / Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Students using IWitness can now explore nearly 1,000 historical documents, photographs, publications and video testimonies to contextualize their learning about the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
genocide archive rwanda, rwanda, iwitness / Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Francoise Muteteli describes how her work at a Rwandan Genocide memorial is helping preserve the memory of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
clip, female, tutsi survivor, rwanda, Francoise Muteteli / Thursday, April 17, 2014
USC Shoah Foundation and leaders around the world are condemning an anti-Semitic flier given to Jews in Donetsk, Ukraine, ordering them to register with the government or face deportation and confiscation of property.
Ukraine, Stephen Smith / Thursday, April 17, 2014
University of Southern California digital journalism and history major Christina Schoellkopf will spend the summer conducting research for her senior thesis in USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive as a 2014 research fellow.
/ Friday, April 18, 2014
Roman Weingarten describes the traditions of Passover including cleaning of the home to remove all traces of chametz, leavened products. Strict dietary laws prohibit the consumption of leavened substances for the eight days of the holiday. Also known as Pesach in Hebrew, the holiday commemorates the Exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Roman Weingarten, passover / Friday, April 18, 2014
USC Shoah Foundation has embarked on a partnership with Windward School - its first partner school in Los Angeles - to introduce Windward's teachers to the methodology of teaching with testimony and to integrate testimony-based educational activities into the school's curriculum.
partner, partnership, Los Angeles, iwitness / Friday, April 18, 2014
Ulrika Citron was born and raised in Sweden. Citron is the co-chair of USC Shoah Foundation’s Next Generation Council and active in the nonprofit world. She lives in New York City with her husband, Joel, and three children.
/ Monday, April 21, 2014
In April 1994, the genocide of the Rwandan Tutsis officially began, even though the persecution and killing campaign had gone on for decades. In 100 days, close to 1 million women, children and men were slaughtered and tortured to death with machetes, metal sticks and knives.
The conflict gained momentum when Belgium became the colonial power in Rwanda after Germany’s defeat in World War I, and further highlighted and reinforced the distinctions between Hutus and Tutsis.
rwanda, kwibuka, op-eds / Monday, April 21, 2014
Next year, scholars, students and the public will be able to start watching the 400 interviews of Armenian Genocide survivors and witnesses filmed by Dr. J. Michael Hagopian in USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive. But Carla Garapedian has already watched every single one.
/ Monday, April 21, 2014
J. Michael Hagopian’s collection of 400 interviews of Armenian Genocide survivors and witnesses drew one step closer to being fully integrated into the Visual History Archive today. The Armenian Film Foundation officially handed over the digitized collection to USC Shoah Foundation, where the process of cataloguing and indexing will begin.
Armenian, Hagopian / Monday, April 21, 2014
Arshag Dickranian, Armenian Genocide survivor reflects on his decision to give his testimony.
clip, male, armenian surivor, Dickranian Arshag / Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Historical memory is dangerous. In times of crisis, its demons emerge, ugly, toxic, and potentially lethal. We saw it in Donetsk last week. Jews emerging from synagogue during Passover found themselves the target of a despicable anti-Semitic attack – new crisis, old anti-Semitism, which this time accused the Jews of acts of collaboration as far back as 1941.
Donetsk Ukraine, anti-semitism, op-eds / Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Visitors to the Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oświęcim, Poland, will view USC Shoah Foundation testimony in the center’s permanent exhibit beginning in May.
oswiecim, museum, testimony / Tuesday, April 22, 2014
USC’s Armenian Student Association and Shoah Foundation Student Association (SFISA) are teaming up to produce an on-campus commemoration event for the 99th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide Thursday at noon, showcasing Armenian culture and history.
Armenian, sfisa, usc, commemoration / Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Aurora Mardiganian speaks here as a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. But from 1918-1920, she was also the face of the Genocide to literally millions of Americans and to others throughout the world. Her tragic, horrific story was told through a 1918 semi-autobiographical book, Ravished Armenia, and a 1919 screen adaptation, also known as Auction of Souls. With the immediacy of a newsreel, the human side to the Genocide was brought to the screen.
clip, female, armenian survivor, Aurora Mardiganian / Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Through her research, writing and teaching, Andrea Peto is introducing her students and colleagues at Central European University to the many scholarly applications of the Visual History Archive.Peto’s research interests are oral history and women’s history, and she has authored books on women’s employment in 1950s, women’s associations 1945-1951, a biography of Julia Rajk and the female perpetrators in Hungary during World War II.
/ Wednesday, April 23, 2014
The University of Southern California has established the Center for Advanced Genocide Research to study how and why such instances of mass violence occur, and how to intervene in the cycle that can lead to them.
center for advanced genocide research, cagr, Max Nikias, Steven Spielberg, Stephen Smith / Friday, April 25, 2014
Abraham Zuckerman was saved by Oskar Schindler, when he was selected to work in Schindler’s factory. Zuckerman reflects on his decision to give his testimony and the importance of collecting survivor and eyewitness testimonies to the Holocaust.
clip, jewish survivor, Abraham Zuckerman, schindler jew, male / Friday, April 25, 2014
(L-r: Schiff, Pitcher-Hoffman, Merritt)Eighth graders Ayva Schiff and Ruby Merritt received a special delivery yesterday: their award certificates honoring them as regional winners of the IWitness Video Challenge.
/ Friday, April 25, 2014
Marcel Lissek speaks on attending Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations in his community and how the ceremonies have evolved over the years. In Hebrew, Holocaust Remembrance Day is called Yom HaShoah, which remembers and honors the victims of the Holocaust. It is observed by most Jewish communities on the 27th of Nissan.
clip, male, jewish survivor, yom hashoah, Marcel Lissek / Friday, April 25, 2014
(From left: Steven Katz, Abraham Zuckerman, Wayne Zuckerman)Abraham Zuckerman spent most of his life bringing honor and attention to Oskar Schindler, who saved his life during the Holocaust. Now, his children have honored Zuckerman himself by helping to bring to life the new book Testimony: The Legacy of Schindler’s List and the USC Shoah Foundation.
/ Monday, April 28, 2014
Sol Blaufeld recalls the liberation of Dachau concentration camp by American forces on April 29, 1945.
clip, male, jewish survivor, dachau, Sol Blaufeld, liberation / Monday, April 28, 2014
A panel discussion and appearances by World War II Soviet veterans marked the grand opening of the Blavatnik Archive Foundation's exhibit at USC Thursday night.
Blavatnik / Monday, April 28, 2014
Syuzanna Petrosyan is a candidate for a Master's Degree in Public Diplomacy at USC's Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism. As an intern at USC Shoah Foundation for almost two years, she has worked mainly with the department of research and documentation. Syuzanna currently serves as an executive producer for Anneberg’s digital news site, Neon Tommy and is a senior editor for USC’s Public Diplomacy Magazine. Syuzanna holds a B.A. in International Studies and Economics from University of California, Irvine.
/ Tuesday, April 29, 2014