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Henny talks about Kanoh Ghoya, a Japanese official responsible for issuing monthly passes to inhabitants of the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China. She notes that, aware of Goya's poor treatment of Jews, her parents decided to cease their attempts of leaving the ghetto.
China and the Holocaust, Ghoya / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Berthold Katz talks about Kanoh Ghoya, a Japanese official responsible for giving monthly passes to Jews who were living in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China, and remembers his brutal treatment of the ghetto inhabitants.
China and the Holocaust, Ghoya, clip / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Hans describes his encounters with a Japanese ghetto official, Kanoh Ghoya, while he was confined in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China, during the war. He speaks of Ghoya's brutal treatment.
China and the Holocaust, Ghoya / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Eva discusses a ghetto pass policy enforced in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China, during the war. Eva explains that she had to pass the ghetto checkpoint on a daily basis, as the school she attended was located outside of her living district. She talks about the impact from her encounters with Kanoh Ghoya, a Japanese official who was in charge of issuing the ghetto passes.
China and the Holocaust, Ghoya / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Hildegard recalls her trip from Shanghai, China to San Francisco, CA, on the board of the U.S. Army transporter “Marine Adder,” in August 1947. She explains that the trip was sponsored by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC).
China and the Holocaust, migration from China, clip / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Hildegard talks about her arrival in San Francisco, CA in September 1947, after having spent the war years in Shanghai, China. Hildegard describes the joy she felt when her ship reached the shore of the United States.
China and the Holocaust, migration from China / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Miriam discusses her family's preparations to leave China after liberation and explains the U.S. immigration policies established for refugees. She remembers her trip to San Francisco, CA, on the board of the "USS General W. H. Gordon" troop ship in June 1947.
China and the Holocaust, migration from China / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Erich speaks of his mother's immigration preparations to leave Shanghai after liberation. He talks about postwar refugee emigration from China and discusses the immigration routes. He recalls his trip to the United States in January 1947.
China and the Holocaust, migration from China / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Lilli reflects on the hardships of her life in the wartime Shanghai, China, and discusses the coping mechanism she had developed as a refugee, learning to live one day at a time.
China and the Holocaust, postwar reflections / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Miriam explains that the Jewish refugees living in Shanghai, China, had no intention to stay there once the war ended, and that helped them to retain hope in surviving the war.
China and the Holocaust, postwar reflections, clip / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Eva talks about the impact her experience of living as a Jewish refugee in China had on her childhood. Despite the hardships she had endured, she expresses her gratitude toward China for having provided a place of refuge to her and her family during the Holocaust.
China and the Holocaust, postwar reflections / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Eva describes various national backgrounds represented by Jewish refugees living in Shanghai, China, during the war. She briefly speaks of the cultural activities pursued by the Jewish refugees-inhabitants of the Hongkew ghetto.
China and the Holocaust, social interactions / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Eva describes the patterns of relationships among the inhabitants of the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China, and focuses on the friendships she and her family had formed while retaining their humanity under difficult circumstances.
China and the Holocaust, social interactions, clip / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Erika details the relationships she had with the local non-Jewish population, while living in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China, during the war.
China and the Holocaust, social interactions / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Alfred talks about the relations between the Jewish refugees and the local, Chinese population in Shanghai during the war.
China and the Holocaust, social interactions / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Crispin Brooks, curator of USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive, will deliver a presentation at the Teaching and Working with Holocaust Testimonies Summer 2013 Workshop, to be held July 15–19 at the University of Michigan–Flint. Geared toward high school teachers, college faculty, and graduate students, the conference focuses on information literacy and critical skills in education and research involving online Holocaust survivor video testimonies. The Visual History Archive is a special focus of the event.
Crispin Brooks, presentation, conference, literacy, education / Friday, July 12, 2013
USC Shoah Foundation educator workshops continue increasing in number and reach. This summer, the program Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century convened new seminars in Budapest and Prague. In addition, another workshop in Poland is scheduled for November. The program’s offerings draw participants from all across their respective nations.
education, teacher, training, educator / Monday, July 15, 2013
Robert Clary remembers being taken with his parents from his apartment in Paris, France, on September 23, 1942, and relates they were deported to the Drancy Transit Camp shortly thereafter. He explains that his half‐sister, Ida, her husband and two small sons had managed to evade deportation on July 16th, but were arrested for deportation that same date.
clip, déportation, Paris, Robert Clary, male, jewish survivor / Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Professor Andrea Pető of Central European University in Budapest has written an article about how to use USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive in teaching students at the graduate level. The piece appears as a chapter in the seventh volume of Jewish Studies at the Central European University edited by András Kovács and Michael Laurence Miller.
publication, Andrea Peto, ceu, central european university, education, archive, vha / Wednesday, July 17, 2013
From Viral Video to Ethical Editing: what students need to know about working with testimony
Lessons from Kony 2012: if participatory politics is the future, media literacy is a must
Approaching the Tipping Point: a conversation with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
pastforward / Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Four applied mathematics undergraduate students are dedicating their summer to a major research project for the USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education.
ucla, ipam, mathematics, vha, archive, research, rips / Thursday, July 18, 2013
Inge and her sister Edith left Zurich, Switzerland for London, United Kingdom, to be reunited with their father after the war. Inge relates that her mother, who had made her way to Sweden after liberation, also joined them in England. It was 1946.
family, reunion, post-war, female, clip, jewish survivor / Thursday, July 18, 2013
Kizito Kalima, a survivor of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, recalls the negative effects of labeling in the classroom before the genocide.
rwandan survivor, male, clip, labeling / Friday, July 19, 2013
Június 3O-a és július 5-e között rendezte a USC Soá Alapítvány a Videóinterjúk a 21. század oktatásában című, magyarországi tanárképzési programjának második évfolyamát.
A program segítségével a résztvevő tanárok megismerhetik a videóinterjúkkal való tanítás lehetőségét, és megtanulhatják, hogyan illeszthetik be az interjúkat eredményesen pedagógiai munkájukba.
hungarian, TWT / Friday, July 19, 2013
2O13. július 5-7-g tartottuk a Videóinterjúk a 21. század oktatásában című tanárképzés első évfolyamának (2O12) programzáró találkozóját a budapesti Közép-európai Egyetemen.A program részeként a kollégák meghallgathatták ruandai vendégünk, Appolon Gahungayire előadását arról, hogyan használhatók a Vizuális Törtnelmi Archívum interjúi az oktatásban Ruandában, illetve Kovács András professzor, antiszemitizmus-kutató előadásában a mai magyarországi antiszemitizmus jelenségéről beszélgettek.
hungarian, TWT / Friday, July 19, 2013
Teachers from all over Hungary gathered in Budapest this month for the six-day introductory seminar to the USC Shoah Foundation’s 2013 Teaching with Testimony for the 21st Century program. But there was one educator among them who didn’t just travel across the country – he came from the other side of the world.
Appolon Gahongayire, Andrea Szőnyi, rwanda, hungary, workshop, education, training, TWT, kgmc, budapest / Friday, July 19, 2013
USC Shoah Foundation is currently fundraising for New Dimensions in Testimony, a new project being developed in concert with USC Institute for Creative Technologies and Conscience Display. The project is to capture three-dimensional interviews with a number of survivors so that in the future people will enable to engage with them conversationally.
preservation, conscious display, testimony, hologram, usc, ict / Monday, July 22, 2013
Pinchas Gutter recalls his arrival at the Theresienstadt Ghetto in Czechoslovakia two weeks prior to his liberation by the Soviet armed forces in 1945. He relates he refused to participate in the mistreatment of the German ghetto guards by Soviet soldiers during the liberation of the ghetto. He remembers the sadness he felt over the mistreatment of anyone even of perpetrators.
clip, male, jewish survivor, terezin, Theresienstadt, liberation, soviet army, Pinchas Gutter / Monday, July 22, 2013
By Nora Snyder
pwp, problems without passports, rwanda / Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Claudia Ramirez Wiedeman, PhD, has joined USC Shoah Foundation as Associate Director for Educational Technologies and Training. Her duties include strategic, content, and professional development related to the Institute’s flagship web-based educational tool, IWitness, which is designed to make the Visual History Archive accessible to educators and students around the world.
education, technology, claudia ramirez wiedeman / Wednesday, July 24, 2013