/ Wednesday, September 4, 2013
David Gurvitz describes how he and fellow members of the Vilna ghetto resistance movement planned and prepared their escape from the ghetto during its liquidation in September 1943.
clip, male, jewish survivor, David Gurvitz, Vilna Ghetto / Thursday, September 5, 2013
Ten Rwandan testimonies from USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive are the latest additions to IWitness, USC Shoah Foundation’s interactive educational website.
iwitness, rwanda, testimony, visual history archive / Thursday, September 5, 2013
Flora Altman speaks fondly about her grandparents on both sides of her family. Including the time she persuaded the police chief to release her grandfather after he was captured by police.
clip, female, Flora Altman, jewish survivor, Grandparents, Czechoslovakia / Friday, September 6, 2013
Leon Greenman talks about returning to his home in Holland after being liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Leon Greenman, Buchenwald, returning home / Monday, September 9, 2013
Kay Andrews, a lecturer at the Institute of Education’s Centre for Holocaust Education, University of London, discusses how testimony is bringing the authentic survivor voice to Holocaust education in the United Kingdom.
visual history archive, testimony, pastforward / Monday, September 9, 2013
Iris Mandel teaches English for native speakers at Ulpanat Amana, a private girls’ high school in Kfar Saba, Israel. She taught in Cleveland, Ohio, for 10 years and is now in her 22nd year at Ulpanat Amana.
/ Monday, September 9, 2013
Miriam Tauber’s testimony was filmed on Tuesday September 11th, 2001 in New York City.  Miriam and her interviewer talk about the terrorist attacks before continuing with her testimony. 
clip, female, miriam tauber, jewish survivor, New York City / Tuesday, September 10, 2013
UCLA emeritus professor of Armenian and Near Eastern History Richard Hovannisian will meet with staff at USC Shoah Foundation on September 17.
lecture, Armenian, testimony, Hagopian / Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Rena Finder remembers arriving at Oskar Schindler’s factory after spending weeks in Auschwitz. Rena recalls how the Schindlers risked their lives to save so many Jews during the Holocaust.  
clip, Rena Finder, female, jewish survivor, schindler jew, Oskar Schindler / Wednesday, September 11, 2013
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Nine months into USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive Restoration project, technology staff have finished restoring nearly one third of the damaged tapes in the Visual History Archive.
visual history archive, restoration, preservation / Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Kurt Messerschmidt, a cantor, reflects on the observance of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, in the Theresienstadt ghetto, Czechoslovakia, in 1944. He describes the significance of the concluding service of Yom Kippur, the Neilah service (closing of the gates) followed by the long sounding of the shofar (ram’s horn).
clip, male, jewish survivor, Kurt Messerschmidt, yom kippur / Thursday, September 12, 2013
Today begins a 10-part series that takes a detailed look at each of the 10 Echoes and Reflections lessons. We begin with Lesson 1: Studying the Holocaust.
echoes and reflections, testimony, adl, yad vashem, teaching / Friday, September 13, 2013
Deborah Batiste has worked for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) since 1991, after teaching high school English for 16 years, and was one of the lead authors of Echoes and Reflections, the multimedia Holocaust education guide developed by Yad Vashem, USC Shoah Foundation and ADL. She is currently the Echoes and Reflections project director, facilitating or co-facilitating over 130 Echoes and Reflections training programs in 34 states and the District of Columbia since 2005, reaching 25 percent of all participants who have attended Echoes and Reflections programs. 
/ Friday, September 13, 2013
Marga Randall describes how life changed for her family and the Jewish population in Germany following the implementation of the Nuremberg Laws on September 15, 1935.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Nuremburg Laws, Marga Randall, Germany 1935 / Friday, September 13, 2013
Lisl Appel reflects on immigrating to the United States from Germany and becoming an American citizen.
clip, female, jewish survivor, citizenship, Lisl Appel / Monday, September 16, 2013
Evan Marwell, CEO and co-founder of EducationSuperHighway, addresses the importance of high-speed broadband access in bringing digital media to every classroom.
technology, iwitness / Monday, September 16, 2013
Cecilia De Jesus, MFA ’13, chose one of the most unlikely filmmaking materials to tell the story of Holocaust survivor Vera Gissing. But the risk paid off in a big way when her film Where Is My Home? won the 2013 Student Voices Short Film Contest.
/ Tuesday, September 17, 2013
USC students who are passionate about filmmaking and history are gearing up for USC Shoah Foundation’s annual Student Voices Short Film Contest. The registration deadline for this year’s competition is Nov. 1 and all videos must be submitted by Jan. 27, 2014.
student voices, student film, visual history archive, Steven Spielberg / Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Drexel University is now the 45th site in the world to have full access to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive.
visual history archive, access site, full access, Philadelphia / Wednesday, September 18, 2013
In observance of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, Alfred Kleeman’s family built a Sukkah (“hut” or “booth”) in which the family ate their meals at their home in Gaukönigshofen, Germany. He remembers the tradition followed by his family in the construction and the decoration of the Sukkah.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Sukkah, Sukkot, Alfred Kleeman / Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Sonia Kempler's father and older brother were both imprisoned at the Breendonk camp in Belgium. Sonia would bring parcels of food to the camp but her father and brother never received the packages.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Sonia Kempler, Breendonk, belgium / Thursday, September 19, 2013
Surrounded by poverty, gangs, drugs and hunger, 25 teenagers from Cleveland High School in Seattle felt like it was all too much to do anything about. But the students in Jeff Taylor’s humanities class found the inspiration to change the world in a unique way: by participating in IWitness (iwitness.usc.edu), an online tool offered for free to any school by the nonprofit USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education.
/ Friday, September 20, 2013
We continue our 10-part Echoes and Reflections series with Lesson 2: Antisemitism.
echoes and reflections, iwitness, teaching / Friday, September 20, 2013
Cila Aaron hopes her children will live in a world full of tolerance and peace.
clip, female, jewish survivor, International Peace day, Cila Aaron / Friday, September 20, 2013
Making a Difference – One Voice and One Sandwich at a Time, was created by high school students Cassidy Stein and Ashlen Weddington. Students use IWitness to make personal connections to the voices in the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive.
student, Cassidy Stein, Ashlen Weddington / Monday, September 23, 2013
As the Institute continues to expand its outreach to students, and as students began to watch, edit, combine, and reconfigure clips from the Visual History Archive, what do they need to know?
visual history archive, editing, testimony, education, high school / Monday, September 23, 2013
full, testimony / Tuesday, September 24, 2013

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