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USC Shoah Foundation is sad to learn of the passing of Sir Nicholas Winton, the organizer of the Czechoslovakian Kindertransport and one of the most beloved rescuers of the Holocaust. Winton was 106 years old.
/ Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Wolf Gruner, director of USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, continues his two-month residence at the Berlin-Brandenurg Center for Jewish Studies with a lecture about Jewish resistance and a Visual History Archive workshop for researchers next Thursday, July 9.
wolf gruner / Wednesday, July 1, 2015
The Look of Silence, director Joshua Oppenheimer’s follow-up to his 2013 documentary The Act of Killing, will screen Wed., July 8 at USC, followed by a discussion with Oppenheimer moderated by USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith.
Stephen Smith, joshua oppenheimer, indonesia, pastforward / Thursday, July 2, 2015
Herbert Holden describes Nicholas Winton's lifesaving efforts to bring 669 Czech children to Britain during the Holocaust, and how he called up a television program to reveal himself as one of the children Winton saved.
clip, Nicholas Winton, herbert holden / Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Alice Masters recalls meeting Sir Nicholas for the first time in London at the 50th reunion of the Kindertransport children.
clip, Nicholas Winton, kindertransport, jewish survivor / Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Susanne Pearson speaks about Sir Nicholas Winton's difficulties in transporting Jewish children to Britain before the war broke out.
kindertransport, Nicholas Winton, rescue, jewish survivor / Wednesday, July 1, 2015
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Sir Nicholas Winton, responsible for organizing the Kindertransport that saved the lives of 669 Jewish children, passed away at the age of 106. Here is his message to the future.
Nicholas Winton, future message, clip, message to the future, rescuer, male, lcti, 100 days to inspire respect / Wednesday, July 1, 2015
The Eugene and Eva Schlesinger Endowed Teacher Workshop on the Holocaust at California State University, Long Beach, July 13-17 will include instruction on both Echoes and Reflections and IWitness.
seminar, echoes and reflections, iwitness, workshop / Monday, July 6, 2015
After discovering IWitness for the first time at a professional development workshop led by the ADL, Kristin Ann Collins said she couldn’t believe she had never used video testimony in her classroom before.
/ Monday, July 6, 2015
It’s that time of year again: four talented college students are diving into the math and technology behind the Visual History Archive as part of the annual Research in Industrial Projects (RIPS) program at the UCLA Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM).
rips, its, ucla, mathematics, visual history archive / Tuesday, July 7, 2015
As a daughter of Holocaust survivors, Doris Lazarus has dedicated her career to Holocaust education and remembrance. She has been a Docent at the Illinois Holocaust Museum for six years and is also a speaker on the Museum's Speaker's Bureau. Additionally, Doris was actively involved with the creation of the U.S. Holocaust Museum as well as the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. From 1994-1998 Doris interviewed Holocaust survivors for USC Shoah Foundation and their testimonies are preserved in the Visual History Archive.
/ Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Doris Lazarus is a docent at Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, the first institution to pilot New Dimensions in Testimony (NDT), a collaboration between USC Shoah Foundation and USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), in partnership with concept developer Conscience Display.
New Dimensions in Testimony, Pinchas Gutter, Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, op-eds / Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Doris Lazarus is a docent at Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, the first institution to pilot New Dimensions in Testimony (NDT), a collaboration between USC Shoah Foundation and USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), in partnership with concept developer Conscience Display. Doris reads a letter she wrote to Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter when he visited the museum in June 2015.
/ Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Armenian Genocide survivor, Suren Aprahamian recalls the thriving Armenian community in his village just outside Van and how the city’s population swelled with Armenians trying to escape the massacres that began in 1915.
clip, Armenian Genocide, armenian survivor, suren Aprahamian, daily life, discrimination / Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Nearly six months after traveling to Poland with USC Shoah Foundation, Soljane Quiles is getting back on a plane and heading to Los Angeles for another program: the first-ever IWitness Teacher Fellowship.At The Highlander Charter School in Rhode Island, Quiles currently teaches 9th and 10th grade history and has been a featured community panelist and award recipient for her dedication to civics education.
/ Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Librarians from colleges, cities and prisons were among the steady stream of ALA conference attendees who visited USC Shoah Foundation's first table at the ALA Conference expo hall June 26-29.
its, ala, conference, visual history archive, doug ballman, sandra aguilar / Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Eva Slonim remembers her childhood, family and religious celebrations in pre-war Czechoslovakia.
clip, female, eva slonim, jewish survivor, daily life, family / Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Board of Councilors member Lee Liberman and Lisa Hofheimer, finance director of the Lee Liberman Charitable Foundation, visited USC Shoah Foundation today to meet with staff about upcoming programs.
lee liberman, board of councilors, visit / Thursday, July 9, 2015
For the last three days, a dozen teachers came together to advance their skills in IWitness as part of the first-ever IWitness Teaching Fellowship.
iwitness, fellowship, fellows, teaching fellow, teaching fellowship, IWitness activity / Friday, July 10, 2015
Free and open to the public, monthly Institute visits give guests a chance to explore the life stories of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides and to discover how their memories are being used to overcome prejudice, intolerance and bigotry. Description:
/ Monday, July 13, 2015
Free and open to the public, monthly Institute visits give guests a chance to explore the life stories of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides and to discover how their memories are being used to overcome prejudice, intolerance and bigotry. Description:
/ Monday, July 13, 2015
Educators from across the United States are convening at Anti-Defamation League headquarters in New York City today through Friday for an in-depth training on the resources of Echoes and Reflections.
echoes and reflections, teacher training, liz bommarito, iwitness / Monday, July 13, 2015
Judith Becker describes how her brother was able to still attend a public high school because of his athleticism despite the implementation of the Nuremberg Laws. She also reflects on how the Nazi ideology was taught on a daily basis in German schools.
clip, judith becker, jewish survivor, antiSemitism, religious, discrimination, racism, education, education expulsion, nazi / Monday, July 13, 2015
Educators gave hundreds of presentations on behalf of USC Shoah Foundation during the 2014-2015 fiscal year, introducing thousands of teachers and members of the public to testimony and IWitness.
iwitness, teacher training, presentation / Tuesday, July 14, 2015
I first met Sir Nicholas Winton when he had reached the mere age of 87. He was curious to learn about the UK Holocaust Centre, which our family had opened in Nottinghamshire. Winton was intrigued to learn that a non-Jewish family established the center, which resonated with his own ethics, as a Holocaust rescuer who saved 669 Jewish children by organizing the Czechoslovakian Kindertransport.
Nicholas Winton, kindertransport, op-eds / Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Ludmila Page recalls how fellow female prisoners in Auschwitz practiced their religion by praying. She says how inspiring it was for these young women to have faith amongst such horror.
clip, Ludmila Page, auschwitz, religion, faith, jewish survivor, schindler jew / Tuesday, July 14, 2015
After learning the methodology of teaching with testimony and creating new lessons last year, the 2014 cohort of Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century in Hungary returned for their follow-up session to share what they have learned.
Teaching with Testimony, Teaching with Testimony in 21st Century, hungary, Andrea Szőnyi / Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Peter Cukor describes returning to his family home Hungary and reuniting with his father after being liberated from a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. He also recalls how he faced anti-Semitism even after liberation in 1945.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Peter Cukor, hungary, liberation, post genocide / Wednesday, July 15, 2015