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A five-part exhibit of testimony from USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive will be on display at world UNESCO headquarters in Paris to commemorate International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust on Jan. 27.
The email wasn’t so different from many others I’ve received since I started working at the USC Shoah Foundation last summer.
A woman named Olga in Germany was moved by watching survivor Paula Lebovics talk about her stolen childhood during the Holocaust. Olga had a young daughter of her own and felt an immediate bond with Paula, who was taken to Auschwitz when she was the same age. And so she wanted to contact her.
USC Doheny Memorial Library (DML), Room G28
USC University Club at King Stoops Hall
Michael Ignatieff, the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs Centennial Chair, will then give a public talk at USC, “In Search of a Global Ethic: Lessons from the Big Cities” from 4-6 PM on the 21st where he di
USC Shoah Foundation has published two Polish-language lessons about the Holocaust, complete with clips from the Visual History Archive, on the USC Shoah Foundation website. They are available for free to educators around the world.
Tu be-Shevat is called “New Year of the Trees” and is also known as Jewish Arbor Day. It is celebrated, especially in Israel, by planting trees and also marked by eating fruit on this day. Ela Weissberger remembers someone sneaked in a small plant of an oak tree into Theresienstadt (Terezin) and planted the tree in honor of the holiday.
USC Shoah Foundation added a new country and language to the Visual History Archive and surpassed 20,000 IWitness users in the last quarter of 2013.
During his visit to Los Angeles, Ignatieff will visit and speak at institutions across the city, with an emphasis is on faith-based and community-based leadership in areas of racial tension.
Edith Englander speaks of the kindness and assistance she received from non-Jews who took care of what used to be her father’s wine business upon her post-liberation return to her hometown in Czechoslovakia.
Erika Breier-Vadnai remembers the day she was liberated from the Budapest ghetto, Hungary, by the Soviet armed forces. She states it was on January 18, 1945.