Sixteen art and design students from around the world were chosen as winners of this year’s “Keeping the Memory Alive” International Poster Design Competition. The competition is supported by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), Yad Vashem, London Jewish Cultural Centre, European Shoah Legacy Institute, 2014 Canadian IHRA Chairmanship, and Holocaust and United Nations Outreach Program.
contest, kim simon, ihra / Thursday, August 8, 2013
Фонд Шоа Університету Південної Каліфорнії глибоко вражений новиною про раптову смерть Дмитра Гройсмана, українського правозахисника та інтерв’юера Фонду. Гройсман помер у понеділок 5 серпня від серцевого нападу після довгої хвороби, як про це повідомив його колега Максим Буткевич. Йому було 41.
interviewer, Ukraine, Dmytro Groisman / Thursday, August 8, 2013
interviewer, Ukraine, Dmytro Groisman / Thursday, August 8, 2013
USC Shoah Foundation is saddened to learn of the untimely passing of Dmytro Groisman, Ukranian human rights activist and USC Shoah Foundation interviewer. Groisman died Monday of a heart attack after a long illness, according to his colleague Maksym Butkevych. He was 41.
Dmytro Groisman, interviewer / Thursday, August 8, 2013
On August 8, 1940, before the Nazis entered Romania, the government started to restrict Romanian Jews from employment and education, which later turned into the Romanization of Jewish businesses. Bellina Aronovich remembers the anti-Semitism and violence against Jews had even started the year before, in 1939.
clip, female, jewish survivor, romania, anti-semitism, romanization / Thursday, August 8, 2013
A new documentary tells the story of Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker who saved the lives of 669 Czechoslovakian children through the Kindertransport in 1939. Audiences in Los Angeles have a unique opportunity to see the film and meet Dave Lux, one of the children he saved, this Sunday.
Nicholas Winton, kindertransport, screening / Friday, August 9, 2013
Dave Lux survived the Holocaust as a child because of Nicholas Winton, who orchestrated the Czech Kindertransport, saving hundreds of Jewish children by transporting them to England. Lux remembers leaving his parents and thinking he’s going on a field trip.
clip, male, jewish survivor, kindertransport, Nicholas Winton / Friday, August 9, 2013
Scholastic is joining forces with USC Shoah Foundation to promote IWitness and IWitness Video Challenge to teachers on its print and online platforms.
education, partnership, iwitness, scholastic / Monday, August 12, 2013
August was the last month of the famous Eichmann Trial in 1961. Margrit Wreschner Rustow talks about her sister being one of the witnesses in the Eichmann trial and that she could not participate because she was working but she watched the trial on TV.
clip, female, jewish survivor, eichmann, trial / Monday, August 12, 2013
Abram Kolski speaks of the Treblinka II-Death Camp uprising that took place on Aug 2, 1943, in Poland.  He explains how the prisoners organized the revolt. Many prisoners were able to escape successfully from the camp as a result of the uprising. He was one of them.
clip, male, jewish survivor, treblinka, uprising, escape / Monday, August 12, 2013
Leticia Villasenor has recently begun a 2013 summer student fellowship at USC Shoah Foundation. Villasenor is working toward her PhD in French from USC, and holds a master’s in international studies at the University of Denver and a bachelor’s in French and international relations at USC. She also interned at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris and has just returned from a year abroad, also in Paris. What research are you doing at USC Shoah Foundation?
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A delegation of USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education supporters and board members will travel to Hungary and Poland this October to commemorate the Institute’s 20th anniversary and learn more about its work in Eastern Europe.
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Madame Yong talks about the 1937 mass murder in Nanjing, China and describes the losses in her family. She remembers the atrocities perpetrated by the Japanese soldiers. Madame Yong explains why her family was unable to flee the area prior to the killing.
female, nanjing survivor, subtitled, chinese / Monday, August 12, 2013
chinese portal / Monday, August 12, 2013
Gender: FemaleBorn: 10/28/1935City of Birth: Lwów, PolandGhetto(s): LwówCountry of Interview: U.S.A
Kristin Keren, POH, pyramid of hate / Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Gender: FemaleBorn: 2/24/1920City of Birth: Berlin, GermanyCountry of Interview: U.S.A
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Milton Belfer remembers when his parents were arrested and his father's beard was forcibly shaved.
GAM / Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Holocaust survivor Itka Zygmuntowicz on the last time she saw her mother.
GAM / Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Gender: MaleBorn: 12/12/1930City of Birth: Vienna, AustriaCountry of Interview: U.S.A
Peter Braunfeld, POH, pyramid of hate / Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Gender: FemaleBorn: 3/4/1926City of Birth: Bilky, CzechoslovakiaGhetto(s): Berehovo, CzechoslovakiaCamp(s): Auschwitz (Poland : Concentration Camp); Lübberstedt (Germany : Concentration Camp)Other Experiences: Displaced persons campsCountry of Interview: U.S.A
Mollie Stauber, POH, pyramid of hate / Tuesday, August 13, 2013
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POH, pyramid of hate / Tuesday, August 13, 2013
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Renowned Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer will visit USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education in November.
yehuda bauer, visitor, visiting scholar, lecture / Tuesday, August 13, 2013
A conversation with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
arne duncan, education, Stephen Smith, interview, DOE, technology / Thursday, August 15, 2013
In August 1942 was the start of deportation of Jews from Croatia to concentration camps. Edmund Berger remembers when the Germans started to control the Croatian government and implemented restrictions against Jews and eventually the killings of young Jewish men.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Edmund Berger, déportation, croatia / Thursday, August 15, 2013
V pražském Centru vizuální historie Malach byl ve dnech 8. - 12. července úvodním seminářem zahájen druhý ročník programu Svědectví pamětníků ve výuce pro 21. století. Letos se kromě učitelů z celé ČR účastnili i pedagogové ze Slovenska. 
TWT, teacher training, professional development, education / Friday, August 16, 2013
USC Shoah Foundation’s director of research and documentation, Karen Jungb
rwanda, education, kori street, karen jungblut, aegis / Friday, August 16, 2013
Irene Shapiro remembers being deported from Bialystok Ghetto to a camp. She speaks of her experience in the train on the way to Treblinka and Majdanek.
bialystok, ghetto, poland, female, jewish survivor, clip, liquidation, déportation / Friday, August 16, 2013
Gregory Irwin ’14, an international relations major with a minor in screenwriting, has been an intern at USC Shoah Foundation since his sophomore year. He was inspired to get involved by the stories his grandmothers have told him about their experiences during the Holocaust.
Greg Irwin, intern / Monday, August 19, 2013
Liam Neeson will be attending USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education’s special 20th anniversary benefit screening of Schindler’s List that will be held in Philadelphia on Thursday, September 12.  Neeson played the starring role of German industrialist Oskar Schindler in the film, for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
screening, Liam Neeson, Schindler's List, Philadelphia / Wednesday, August 21, 2013

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