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USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith joined a group of leaders from Holocaust and genocide-awareness organizations who signed a letter offering to meet with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who sparked controversy last month by saying he wouldn’t shut down accounts of Holocaust deniers.
antiSemitism, Facebook / Monday, August 13, 2018
The screening Thursday will include a question-and-answer period with producer Andi Gitow of USC Shoah Foundation
/ Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Stefania Podgorska Burzminski appears at the end of the testimony of her husband, Josef Burzminski (right), to share thoughts on why she risked her life to save him and many others during the Holocaust. Stefania grew up Catholic in Poland. Their son, Edward Burzminski, looks on as she speaks.
rescuer, upstander / Tuesday, August 14, 2018
The New York Times recently published a piece about the rerelease of a book that spotlighted the efforts of non-Jewish Europeans who risked their lives to protect Jews during the Holocaust. The rerelease coincides with the 30th anniversary of the book, “Rescuers.” At least three of the featured rescuers gave testimonies to USC Shoah Foundation. Here are their stories.
rescuers, upstanders / Tuesday, August 14, 2018
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research first began a partnership with the Holocaust Geographies Collaborative in 2014, when the team visited the Institute to explore the ways in which the Visual History Archive can be used to create geographic visualizations of the Holocaust.
cagr / Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Stefania Podgorska Burzminski appears at the end of the testimony of her husband, Josef Burzminski (right), to share thoughts on why she risked her life to save him and many others during the Holocaust. Stefania grew up Catholic in Poland. Their son, Edward Burzminski, looks on as she speaks.
rescuers, upstanders, hiding / Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Over the course of three days, the Institute exhibited its recently recorded testimonies of Rohingya refugees; hosted an event in which a renowned artist painted a portrait of a Holocaust survivor before a live audience; and screened "The Girl and The Picture," the Institute’s award-winning documentary about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre.
Aspen, David Kassan, Hanna Pankowsky, The Girl and The Picture / Wednesday, August 15, 2018
A daughter discovers her father’s secret past and shares his story with the world.
holocaust survivor, Noemie Lopian, memoir / Monday, August 20, 2018
Participants will become familiar with the various pathways of IWitness by navigating through the site with USC Shoah Foundation educators. Participants will take away strategies of best practices for accessing testimony-based resources on IWitness and will learn how to build their own digital classroom within the site. Register now!
As a result of this webinar, participants will…
/ Tuesday, August 21, 2018
The Vienna native reflects on his 10-month tenure at the Institute, and the importance of the national reconciliation program that enables a select group of young Austrians to serve at organizations focused on Holocaust remembrance.
Austrian intern, Austrian interns, Austria, Martin Gruber / Thursday, August 23, 2018
Hungarian Holocaust survivor Mike Terezia describes life after liberation. Her testimony is among several being used in a study by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences about the effectiveness of testimony in the classroom.
Hungarian testimony, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Mike Terezia, study / Thursday, August 23, 2018
Researchers conducting the study for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences say their conclusions are all the more vital in an age where, thanks to the internet, youth are more susceptible to believing “fake information.”
Hungarian study, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, testimony / Thursday, August 23, 2018
USC Shoah Foundation partners with CNN to share voices of Rohingya refugees.
Rohingya, CNN, Voices of the Rohingya / Friday, August 24, 2018
This is the first year USC’s Undergraduate Student Government leaders have used clips of testimony for the orientation event. The new IWitness University activity is called "Countering Intolerance in Co-Curricular Spaces."
student government, USG, diversity and inclusion, IDC, iwitness / Monday, August 27, 2018
Danish Holocaust survivor Silja Vainer describes the comfort she derived from joining a Jewish-Muslim-Christian interfaith group that engages in community outreach.
Silja Vainer, IDC, student government, inter-faith / Monday, August 27, 2018
A public lecture by Kimberly Cheng (PhD candidate in Hebrew & Judaic Studies and History, New York University), 2018-2019 Breslauer, Rutman & Anderson Research Fellow
cagr / Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Steven Spielberg’s Seven-Time Academy Award®-Winning Masterpiece Arrives in Theaters for a Limited Theatrical Engagement. USC Shoah Foundation is Coordinating Free Screenings for High School Educators and Students in Select North American Theaters on Dec. 4 and 5.
Schindler's List, re-release, 25th anniversary / Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Holocaust survivor Leon Leyson describes working in Oskar Schindler’s factory, and his interactions with Schindler himself when the German industrialist strolled through the work stations on the factory floor. This testimony clip is featured in the IWitness Video Challenge activity.
Schindler's List, re-release, 25th anniversary, Leon Leyson / Wednesday, August 29, 2018
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites proposals for its 2019- 2020 Interdisciplinary Research Week that will provide support for an interdisciplinary group of international scholars to develop and discuss a collaborative innovative research project in the field of Holocaust and Genocide Studies using the video testimonies of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive (VHA) and other related resources at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
cagr / Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Emmanuel Ndashimye, a survivor of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi, talks about three times he came close to death during the genocide, but somehow managed to survive.
1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, obit, Emmanuel Ndashimye / Thursday, August 30, 2018
We are saddened at the recent death of Emmanuel Ndashimye, a survivor of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi, whose testimony is in the Institute’s Visual History Archive.
1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, obit, rwanda, Emmanuel Ndashimye / Thursday, August 30, 2018
A pioneering moment for Holocaust education, the world’s first virtual reality film to take audiences through a concentration camp, launches as immersive experience at four museums in New York, California, Illinois and Florida for limited-engagement exhibit.
the last goodbye, museums / Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Charlotte is among 20 student leaders from 14 university campuses from around the country who are convening at USC Shoah Foundation on Friday for the second-annual Intercollegiate Diversity Congress.
Charlotte Masters, IDC, intercollegiate diversity congress, kindertransport, Alice Masters, Peter Masters / Thursday, September 6, 2018
A consortium of more than 40 Hungarian academic institutions and public libraries signs on, bringing the total number of worldwide subscribers to 138.
/ Friday, September 7, 2018
A public lecture by Geoffrey Robinson (UCLA).
/ Monday, September 10, 2018
The integration of the new collection means the Archive now represents nine genocidal events. USC Shoah Foundation last month added 11 Rohingya video interviews—as well as 77 testimonies from other collections—to its ever-expanding Archive.
Rohingya, myanmar, new collection, collections, CATT, Countering Antisemitism, rwanda / Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Shafika Begum describes a massacre at her Rohingya village. On Aug. 30 of 2017, as part of a coordinated attack across the Rakhine State that had begun a few days prior, the Myanmar Army and local collaborators burned down dwellings and began gunning down inhabitants of her village, Tula Toli.
Rohingya, Shafika Begum, massacre, Tula Toli / Tuesday, September 11, 2018
An ITS group has worked since April of 2017 to expand the discoverability of testimonies for students, researchers and anyone else searching for information about specific genocide events.
MARC, USC Libraries, catalogues, WorldCat / Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Bawnik survived a Jewish ghetto and four concentration camps, only to nearly die on one of the last days of the war, when British warplanes bombed a German ocean liner that he and thousands of other Jewish prisoners had been forced to board.
Henry Bawnik, obit, Cap Arcona / Thursday, September 13, 2018
Starting today, "The Girl and The Picture," USC Shoah Foundation’s documentary about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, is being shown for one week at the Laemmle Monica Film Center in Santa Monica.
The Girl and The Picture, screening, open / Friday, September 14, 2018