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POLSCY NAUCZYCIELE UCZĄ SIĘ JAK UŻYWAĆ RELACJE OCALAŁYCH Z HOLOKAUSTU W KLASIE

Podczas warsztatu odbywającego się na Uniwersytecie Środkowoeuropejskim Fundacja Shoah Uniwersytetu Południowej Kalifornii dopełnia pierwszy rok realizacji nowego projektu edukacyjnego w Europie

BUDAPESZT—17 listopada, 2012— w ubiegłym tygodniu nauczyciele z całej Polski przyjechali na Węgry, aby wziąć udział w warsztatach zorganizowanych przez Fundację Shoah – Instytut Historii Wizualnej i Edukacji na Uniwersytecie Południowej Kalifornii. Warsztaty, część programu Nauczanie z użyciem relacji w 21.

Rose Kaplovitz

Rose describes her realization that the war had ended and her experience of being liberated from Ober Altstadt labor camp in Czechoslovakia in May 1945. Rose Kaplovitz was born Rozia Zaks on September 6, 1930, in Sosnowiec, Poland. Rose remembers her childhood in the Jewish community on the Polish-German border as relatively happy and secure. However, on the second day of the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, Rose witnessed her brother’s execution by German officers.

USC Dornsife's smartphone-interactive feature on the Institute: Augmented Reality app takes readers beyond the printed page

The Institute is featured in the Fall 2012/Winter 2013 issue of USC Dornsife Magazine ("The Memory Issue"), which includes content accessible through smartphones using the Dornsife Augment Reality (AR) app. Readers can use their smartphones to scan pages for additional content, including a short clip from the testimony of Freddy Mutanguha, a survivor of the Rwandan Tutsi Genocide.

Freddy's entire testimony is viewable on the Institute's website. Watch

Jane Fonda urges remembrance of sexual violence during the Holocaust

Actress, activist speaks at international symposium convened by USC Shoah Foundation and Remember the Women Institute

"Research in Industrial Projects" Students Present Findings to USC Shoah Foundation Staff

Another group of talented students has completed their applied math research project as part of UCLA Institute for Applied Mathematics (IPAM)’s Research in Industrial Projects (RIPS) summer program, offering USC Shoah Foundation staff options for improving the functionality of the Visual History Archive

Wellesina McCrary on Racism in California

100 Days to Inspire Respect

Wellesina discusses being targeted by the Ku Klux Klan while living with her black adopted daughter in Rialto, California.

Educator Seminar in Hungary Brings Together Teachers from Four Countries to Build IWalks

A group of over a dozen educators representing the so-called Visegrad countries – a bloc of Central European countries including the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – met for a second time to experience and discuss the power of the IWalks and IWitness activities developed by USC Shoah Foundation.

Elise Taft on Telling Her Story

100 Days to Inspire Respect

Armenian Genocide survivor Elise Taft reads from the preface of her book about why she decided to tell her story.

It's "Impossible to Miss" Themes Linking 1933 With 2017

At a first glance The Yellow Spot: The Extermination of the Jews in Germany is a book about the Holocaust. But in fact, it was published in 1936, after just three years of Nazi rule — and a full five years before the first gas chambers were commissioned for the murder of European Jewry. The authors spend 287 pages detailing a series of laws and actions taken against the Jews. Their conclusion was that the “legal disability” being imposed by the Nazis upon the Jews ultimately would result in their elimination. (Originally published by The Hollywood Reporter.)

Jungblut Joins Netherlands Conference on Digital Testimonies

Karen Jungblut, USC Shoah Foundation director of research and documentation, participated in the “Digital Testimonies on War and Trauma” conference in June. Held at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the symposium brought together scholars from all over the world to address the use and impact of digitized narrative collections in relating the horrors of warfare.