Kim Simon, Managing Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, will be awarded an Alumni Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from her alma mater, Colorado College, during the opening convocation ceremony on Monday, September 5, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education will present its Web application IWitness, now in beta, at the 2012 National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention. The convention will take place from November 15–18 at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

“We are convinced that access to this unique archive will promote research and teaching on the history of Thessaloniki and the Holocaust,” said Yannis Mylopoulos, Rector of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. “Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is proud to support efforts directed toward honoring and commemorating the victims of the Holocaust, especially the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki and its victims during the World War II.”

Participants will be from Israel, the U.K. and U.S.

Exhibit focuses on the Cuban Jewish Communities origins and history.

Attendees tour Holocaust-related sites.

Several thousand educators attend event.

KGMC staff members held panel discussion.

Attendees include Canada, United Kingdom and United States delegations.

Secure storage ensures safety and accessibility of archives.

Dr. Street will drive education agenda in multiple countries.

Opening even held in early November.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, in New York, is pleased to announce that starting on Kristallnacht, November 9, it will be the only public institution in New York where visitors can access video testimonies from Holocaust survivors and other witnesses collected by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.

Launch event to be held on campus.

First in a series, aimed at middle and high school educators.

Holocaust literature expert to speak at Leavey Library.

Goal is for an additional 1,000.

PhD candidate studies women's underrepresentation.

Attendees included students from China, India, Italy, Rwanda, and the United States.

TV broadcast features seminar.

From mid-October through mid-December, four staff members from the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center (KGMC) will intern at the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.

Panel will include speakers from Hong Kong, Rwanda, and the United States.

Academy Award® winner Branko Lustig to attend upcoming reception.

First evidence of Hitler's anti-Semitism.

In-depth introduction to video testimonies.

Honoring the 70th anniversary of the Babi Yar tragedy, the Ukrainian Cinema Club in Berlin presented a screening of Spell Your Name, a documentary film by Sergey Bukovsky, co-produced by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. The screening was followed by a discussion with Cristoph Filinger, a journalist and a freelancer at the American Jewish Committee office in Berlin. Leonid Zozovskii, an Institute-interviewed survivor who lived through the Holocaust under false identity in Zelenchukskaia (Ordzhonikidze, Russia, then USSR), attended the screening.

USC Professor Researching Forms of Jewish Defiance

Italy’s National Archives to Launch Web Portal to Survivor Testimonies

Hannah Pollin-Galay discusses how culture and language inform Holocaust testimony