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Alice Shipley discusses the deportation of her family during the Armenian Genocide. This testimony clip is featured in the new IWitness activity, Information Quest – The Armenian Genocide.
clip, female, armenian surivor, iwitness, Alice Shipley, deportations / Monday, June 8, 2015
For nine Philadelphia high school students, a loaf of challah was one of the most special gifts they have ever received.
Philadelphia, jayne perilstein, next generation council, iwitness video challenge / Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Ruth Brand recalls an anti-Semitic experience as a young girl in her native country of Romania.
clip, female, jewish survivor, romania, ruth brand, culture, arts, discrimination, antiSemitism / Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Henrietta Altman remembers the liquidation of the Bedzin ghetto in Poland in August 1943.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Bedzin ghetto, liquidation, poland, Henrietta Altman / Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Aegis Trust and its partners have launched a new, state-of-the-art Genocide Archive of Rwanda online platform that gives access to never-before-seen information about the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. Today’s date, June 9, also marks International Archives Day.
genocide archive rwanda, aegis, rwanda / Tuesday, June 9, 2015
The community of Strasbourg, Saskatchewan, has reaped the benefits of Larry Mikulcik’s trip to Poland for Auschwitz: The Past is Present.
past is present / Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Gay Pride Month, pride, homosexual survivors, lgbtq / Thursday, June 11, 2015
The 2015 IWitness Video Challenge winning video, “From, Your Friend :),” documents middle school students, Emma Heintz and Natalia Podstawka remarkable effort to make a difference at their school, Douglas Middle School in East Douglas, Mass., by distributing notecards with compliments and words of encouragement to all 415 students.
clip, video, iwitness, IWitness Video Challenge 2015, winning video / Thursday, June 11, 2015
Two eighth graders were inspired by testimony to write personalized notes to every student in their school in the winning video "From, Your Friend :)."
IWitness Video Challenge 2015 / Thursday, June 11, 2015
Florida Holocaust Museum has joined the Preserving the Legacy initiative. USC Shoah Foundation ITS staff are currently indexing FHM’s collection of 207 Holocaust survivor testimonies.
/ Friday, June 12, 2015
Twenty years ago, memories of the Holocaust were too painful for Liliane Weissberg’s parents to give their testimonies to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive. But Weissberg herself has taken on the mantle of studying and remembering the Holocaust as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and USC Shoah Foundation’s next Rutman Teaching Fellow.
/ Friday, June 12, 2015
Former indexer Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon may have left his job at the USC Shoah Foundation last year, but what he learned working with the Institute has had a lasting impact.
/ Monday, June 15, 2015
What makes Gad Beck’s story so remarkable, however, was that not only was he a “Mischling” but he was also a gay teenager living in Nazi Berlin, the epicenter of a military power antagonistic to both Jews and gays.
homosexuality, holocaust, paragraph 175, gay, homosexual, gay rights, gay pride, résistance, op-eds / Monday, June 15, 2015
In this clip, Gad Beck recalls the day he ran in to tell his mother that he "had his first man" and her surprising reaction. It is a sweet story of family acceptance and support.
subtitled, gay, homosexual, jewish survivor, Gad Beck, male / Monday, June 15, 2015
Gad Beck recalls how the Gentile women in Berlin, including his aunts, came en masse to Rosenstraße in order to protest for the release of the Jewish men detained by the Nazis for deportation to the concentration camps. Gad and his father were among the detainees arrested during the Fabrikaktion.
Rosenstrasse, Rosenstraße, résistance, Gad Beck, Fabrikaktion, male / Monday, June 15, 2015
Capping off months of preparation, study and travel, the first group of USC Shoah Foundation Junior Interns returned to the Institute’s office in May to present their final thoughts on their participation in Auschwitz: The Past is Present program.
past is present, junior interns, Paula Lebovics, Lesly Culp / Monday, June 15, 2015
Martin Aaron reflects on the importance of sharing his experience of the Holocaust even though it is very difficult.
clip, male, jewish survivor, testimony, giving testimon, martin aaron / Monday, June 15, 2015
USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith joined 25 educators and researchers from Israel and Europe for an expert seminar today on Holocaust education in the 21st century.
Stephen Smith, seminar, Israel, testimony, Holocaust education / Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Henry Joseph describes the Nazi occupation of Luxembourg and then the later deporations of Jews in 1941.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Henry Joseph, depotations, Luxembourg / Wednesday, June 17, 2015
June 20th is recognized by the United Nations as International Refugee Day to raise awareness of the plight of refugees around the world. Kizito Kalima, a survivor of the Rwandan Tutsi Genocide, remembers the makeshift refugee camp in the region shortly after the genocide.
clip, male, rwanda survivor, Kizito Kalima, refugee / Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Rena Bernstein recalls life after liberation when her family migrated to Italy from Poland. Her father was a doctor at a polish orphanage and the family still experienced anti-Semitism.
clip, female, jewish survivor, rena bernstein, movement, post liberation, Italy, antiSemitism / Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Daisy Biro describes life in Budapest during WWII and how grateful she is that her entire immediate family survived.
clip, female, jewish survivor, daisy biro, budapest, family, feelings / Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Armenian Genocide survivor Siranoush Boyajian describes her family’s life before deportation, followed by the painful, frightening transition out of such a peaceful life.
clip, female, armenian survivor, boyajian siranoush / Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Leo Abrami describes the atmosphere right before the Nazis invaded Paris in 1940. He also recalls an anti-Semitic experience as a child at summer camp before the Nazi occupation.
clip, male, jewish survivor, occupation of Paris, military invasion Leo Abrami, antiSemitism / Wednesday, June 17, 2015
For some educators social media may feel like the Wild West, but Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are quickly becoming the new frontier of Holocaust education.
kori street, aho, conference, social media / Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Emma Heintz and Natalia Podstawka had watched many testimony clips in search of the perfect one to use for their IWitness Video Challenge project. When they found Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt talking about a receiving a smile from a stranger, they knew it was the one.
/ Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Margarete Weil recalls when her entire family was deported from Hamburg Germany to Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia in 1941.
clip, female, jewish survivor, deporation, Margarete Weil, Theresienstadt / Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Rose Toren’s father told her to leave the family to go hide with a friend from school in Nazi occupied Poland. Rose recalls the night she fled to her friend’s house and evaded beatings by the Gestapo.
clip, female, jewish survivor, rose toren, poland, hiding, aid providing, family / Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Lisa Farese is no stranger to encouraging her students to change the world.This was the ninth year the English language arts teacher at Douglas Middle School has assigned her students a project called iCan Change the World and her first time including the IWitness Video Challenge as a component of that project. And just like that, her students Natalia Podstawka and Emma Heintz won the 2015 national IWitness Video Challenge competition.
/ Friday, June 19, 2015