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Holocaust survivor Gena Turgel was known in the British press as the “Bride of Belsen” for marrying a British liberator of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she was a prisoner. She gave her testimony to USC Shoah Foundation in 1998.
Susan discusses coming to terms with her identity as a lesbian, and knowing she didn't have to change who she was even while lacking support and resources.
The United States is a large and diverse country, but the family trees of many Americans are rooted in the challenges of being an immigrant.
That is a key takeaway from this year's winning entry for the IWitness Video Challenge, which invites students to be inspired by testimony of survivors of genocides and mass atrocities to make a positive contribution to their communities.
The winners of this year’s fifth annual contest co-organized by USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education attend Northside College Preparatory High School in Chicago.
In this clip, Odette Ariav talks about the impact the Holocaust had on her family and the importance of giving testimony.
This year's IWitness Video Challenge winners prompt their fellow students to reflect on the immigration struggles of their ancestors. The winning team is from Northside College Preparatory High School in Chicago.
Call for Papers:
The Future of Holocaust Testimonies V: An International Conference and Workshop
March 11-13, 2019
The Holocaust Studies Program of Western Galilee College, the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, University of Southern California, and the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies, Appalachian State University, announce the fifth international interdisciplinary conference and workshop on The Future of Holocaust Testimonies to be held on 11–13 March 2019 in Akko, Israel.
Michele Mitchell is award-winning co-director of the critically acclaimed documentary The Uncondemned.
When I met the war photographer, he was having his morning coffee on the beach. He had already been in Cox’s Bazar for a month for The New York Times and had no idea when he was going back home.
“I’ve been tracking what’s happening to the Rohingya for three years,” he told me. “I went all through Myanmar. You could see this coming. It’s been coming all that time.”
He meant the genocidal violence that erupted on August 25th and sent 700,000 Rohingya fleeing across the border into Bangladesh.
EDITOR’S NOTE: USC Shoah Foundation this year launched an initiative to give out small grants to USC professors of any discipline who incorporate the Institute’s archive of genocide-survivor testimony into their coursework in a way that emphasizes diversity and inclusion. This is the third story in a series of five about the 2017 recipients.