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Sarah Pitcher-Hoffman can count herself as part of an elite club: teachers whose students have placed in the IWitness Video Challenge not once, not twice, but three times.
Pitcher-Hoffman’s student Shayna Kantor won third place in the 2017 IWitness Video Challenge. Her student last year, Lanna Knoll, and three years ago, Ruby Merritt and Ayva Schiff, were all regional winners in the challenge.
/ Thursday, July 20, 2017
Marta describes the pain of giving up her beloved dog and how it led to giving up more, including her education.
clip / Thursday, July 20, 2017
A friend asked me whether I could help her with something. She knew I work with testimonies of Holocaust survivors in education and thought I could help her. We met over a coffee in a hipster place. There, she told me that her son suddenly started talking about Hitler. He talked about him all the time. Hitler and Nazis became a permanent conversation topic at their home, and she did not know what to do.
“But he is too young for what I do,” I heard myself saying.
op-eds / Thursday, July 20, 2017
The Visual History Archive version 6.7.3.1 was released today, adding a new feature for users and testimonies from two new experience groups.
CATT, visual history archive / Friday, July 21, 2017
IWitness launched a new portal, Student Leaders, in June, dedicated to providing student leaders with testimony-based resources to help foster inclusivity and acceptance on college campuses.
iwitness / Thursday, July 20, 2017
Teach for Ukraine – a two-year teaching program similar to Teach for America – began training its first cohort last week, and part of that training included a workshop on IWitness and constructivist learning theory.
Ukraine, anna lenchovska / Monday, July 24, 2017
For a century, Michael Rettig’s family has passed down boxes upon boxes of photographs, papers, records and other documents. But because most of it was written in Armenian, no one knew much about what it all meant.
When his grandmother invited him to take a look, Rettig became eager to investigate, to fill in the gaps in both scholarly research and his family's own knowledge about their fascinating history.
/ Monday, July 24, 2017
Lipstadt will be a special guest at an evening of conversation with USC Shoah Foundation at Aspen Jewish Community Center Wednesday, August 9 at 5 p.m. The program is complimentary and open to the public.
advancement, deborah lipstadt, denial / Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Acclaimed writer and Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt will be a special guest at an evening of conversation with USC Shoah Foundation at Aspen Jewish Community Center Wednesday, August 9 at 5 p.m. The program is complimentary and open to the public.
Lipstadt will open the evening with remarks about Holocaust denial and its role in global antisemitism.
/ Tuesday, July 25, 2017
With the start of the fall semester just a month away, start marking your calendar for USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s exciting schedule of lectures, academic conference and other events.
cagr / Wednesday, July 26, 2017
IWitness was a featured component of three training sessions hosted by the Holocaust Educators Network (HEN) this month.
iwitness / Thursday, July 27, 2017
David Hales’ dedication to IWitness has taken him from Michigan to Prague.
Hales is the social studies consultant for Wayne Regional Educational Service Agency, helping to bring best practices to classrooms in the 33 school districts in Wayne County, Mich., through teacher trainings, workshops and meetings. He was introduced to IWitness through USC Shoah Foundation’s IWitness Detroit program, which launched in 2015 in order to expand the use of IWitness in Michigan.
/ Thursday, July 27, 2017
Holcoaust survivors describe how education continued among the Jews of Hagibor right up until the deportations began.
clip / Thursday, July 27, 2017
IWitness users will notice some new features in the latest update of WeVideo. Students and teachers will enjoy new motion titles, premium music, and more advanced features like the ability to add transitions on all tracks, one of the most asked-for features from users.
iwitness, back to school / Friday, July 28, 2017
He was under five years old at the time, but World War II left an indelible mark on Louis Schmidt. He’s never forgotten the air raid drills, seeing his uncles in military uniform, or looking at pictures of prisoners of war in Life magazine.
So when Steven Spielberg announced after he won the Oscar for Schindler’s List in 1994 that he was setting up a foundation to record interviews with 50,000 Holocaust survivors, Schmidt didn’t hesitate.
/ Monday, July 31, 2017
Ernest begins his testimony by sharing a story about his father that has affected him his whole life.
clip, clip / Monday, July 31, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation’s Junior Interns witnessed a disturbing example of modern antisemitism firsthand during their trip to Budapest in June. And they have something to say about it.
budapest, junior interns, antiSemitism / Monday, July 31, 2017
A public lecture by the 2017-2018 Research Week team
Lorena Ávila (Centro Internacional de Toledo para la Paz, Colombia)
Daniela Gleizer (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México)
Emmanuel Kahan (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
Nancy Nichols (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
Yael Siman (Universidad Iberoamericana, México)
Susana Sosenski (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México)
Alejandra Morales Stekel (Director, Interactive Jewish Museum of Chile, Chile)
cagr / Tuesday, August 1, 2017
A public lecture by Christian Delage (Director of the Institut D’Histoire Du Temps Présent, Paris)
cagr / Tuesday, August 1, 2017
The need for continued memorialization of the fate of the Roma and Sinti population of Europe has never been more important.
Roma Sinti / Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Roma and Sinti survivor Ella Davis describes how she was punished for getting caught stealing potatoes at Auschwitz.
clip / Tuesday, August 1, 2017
What are the pillars of modern democracy and how can democracy be defended in days of crisis?
These questions keep coming to me these days, when Poland faces a really serious crisis that so far has caused a huge polarization in Polish society that divides neighbors, colleagues, friends, even families.
Being an educator for almost 30 years, teaching first young students, then teenagers and finally teachers about history, civil rights and human rights, I have realized what a huge setback the Polish educational system has suffered.
op-eds / Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Gerson Adler recalls the Stürmer newspaper issued by the Nazi party that promulgated antisemitic stereotypes.
propaganda, Stürmer, antiSemitism, stereotype / Tuesday, August 1, 2017
In this clip, Henry Sinason, a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, recalls how widespread Nazi antisemitic propaganda was all over the city where he lived.
propaganda, antiSemitism / Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Educators learned how Holocaust survivor testimonies from the Visual History Archive can help them teach early conflict prevention and cultural sensitivity at a workshop led by USC Shoah Foundation’s Ukrainian regional consultant, Anna Lenchovska.
Ukraine, anna lenchovska / Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Suzi Weiss-Fischmann’s mother survived Auschwitz because upon arrival to the camp she was sent to the line to the right designated for slave labor. Her grandmother and uncles were directed to the left, to die in gas chambers because they were considered too old or too young to work.
/ Thursday, August 3, 2017
Daniel Conway, Texas A&M University, and Nancy Sinkoff, Rutgers University, have both been in residence at the Center for Advanced Genocide Research this week.
cagr / Thursday, August 3, 2017
The ‘Third Workshop for Advanced PhD Candidates from North American Universities and Israel who are working on the Holocaust’, co-sponsored by the USC Shoah Foundation Center For Advanced Genocide Research and Yad Vashem, took place from June 25 to June 29, 2017 at the International Institute for Holocaust Research in Yad Vashem.
cagr / Friday, August 4, 2017
As a documentary filmmaker, historian and curator, Christian Delage has long consulted with and used video testimonies of Holocaust survivors in his work.
/ Monday, August 7, 2017