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Shirin Raban was just beginning work on her thesis, a short film about Persians’ observations of Passover in Los Angeles, when she decided to take on the Student Voices Short Film Contest.Raban is a master’s candidate in visual anthropology at USC with a background in graphic design. Another contestant in the Student Voices contest, Syuzanna Petrosyan, told Raban and her anthropological media seminar classmates about Student Voices and showed them some of her own work-in-progress.
/ Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Visitors to the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles can now explore testimony from the USC Shoah Foundation within the museum’s core exhibition, Visions and Values: Jewish Life from Antiquity to America.
/ Tuesday, March 4, 2014
2014. március 1-jén a Zachor Alapítvány a Társadalmi Emlékezetért (www.zachor.hu) civil oktatási szervezet és a Dél-Kaliforniai Egyetem (USC) Soá Alapítványának (http://sfi.usc.edu/international/hungarian) együttműködésében, az Oktatáskutató és Fejlesztő Intézet (www.ofi.hu) támogatásával kezdetét vette a Multimédiás tananyagok az oktatásban című, 11 városi helyszínt érintő tanárképzés.
iTeach, hungary, iTeach / Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Leticia Villasenor is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of French and Italian at USC. Leticia holds a B.A. in French and a B.A. in International Relations from USC, as well as an M.A. in International Studies from the University of Denver and an M.A. in French from USC. She is currently working on her doctoral dissertation entitled: "Memory Transformations in Postwar France: Ethical Implications of Contemporary Shoah Films and Literature." Leticia was a student Fellow at the USC Shoah Foundation.
/ Wednesday, March 5, 2014
The other morning I checked the BBC News website like I always do only to discover that French film director Alain Resnais had passed away at the age of ninety-one. Resnais’s films frequently explored the relationship between memory, consciousness, and the imagination in a non-linear manner and his innovative method of filmmaking won him numerous awards and prestige throughout his prolific career.
Alain Resnais, French Film, op-eds / Wednesday, March 5, 2014
A special delegation of staff and supporters of the USC Shoah Foundation will visit Rwanda this April during the 20th commemoration of the Rwanda Tutsi Genocide to learn about the Institute’s work in Rwanda, reinforce their commitment, and share the experience with others.
/ Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Олександр Войтенко, автор-упорядник посібника, проводить семінар з підготовки тренерів за новим мультимедійним посібником “Де починаються права людини: уроки історії і сучасні підходи”. Київ, листопад 2013 р. Кінооператор: Алфія Шевченко
EVZ, Ukraine / Thursday, March 6, 2014
10 грудня 2013 р. до річниці прийнятя Загальної декларації з прав людини на базі ліцею № 10 м. Марганця Дніпропетровської області проведено семінар для вчителів історії за новим мультимедійним посібником “Де починаються права людини: уроки історії і сучасні підходи”.
EVZ, Ukraine / Thursday, March 6, 2014
Rebecca Baugh tells the heart-wrenching story of Noemi Ban in her entry to the Student Voices Short Film Contest.In her film, Baugh, a junior international relations global business major, includes historical footage and film clips to supplement Ban’s retelling of how she, as a teenager, took care of her younger siblings in the ghetto and finally watched her family disappear into the gas chamber.“I loved that [the USC Shoah Foundation] takes these huge historical events that we study and made them personal,” Baugh said.
/ Thursday, March 6, 2014
Hungarian educators were enthusiastic about learning new methods for teaching with video testimony at USC Shoah Foundation’s first ITeach teacher education seminar last week.
iTeach, iTeach, hungary, Andrea Szőnyi, teaching with testimony for the 21st century / Thursday, March 6, 2014
Former United States Representative Elizabeth Holtzman describes her experience on writing and passing legislation in 1978 to expel the Nazi war criminals who, to her surprise, had immigrated to the United States.
clip, female, Elizabeth Holtzman, war crimes trial participant, congresswoman / Friday, March 7, 2014
The winners of Student Voices 2014 were Syuzanna Petrosyan and Greg Irwin for their film Play for Your Life. Shirin Raban’s There is No Other Way received the viewer’s choice award and Rebecca Baugh’s Love, Noemi received an honorable mention.
/ Friday, March 7, 2014
As an IWitness regional consultant, Brandon Barr sees firsthand the impact testimony can have on both students and teachers.Barr teaches eighth grade reading and writing at Nightingale Elementary in Chicago, where he uses IWitness, USC Shoah Foundation’s educational website, to teach about the Holocaust. As an IWitness regional consultant, he is responsible for leading IWitness teacher training programs and introducing IWitness to schools in his area.
/ Monday, March 10, 2014
George Weiss was seven years old when the Germans invaded his home country of Belgium. He reflects on the shame he felt when he was forced to wear the yellow star of David to school.
clip, male, jewish survivor, childhood, belgium, george weiss / Monday, March 10, 2014
Holocaust survivor testimonies from the Visual History Archive inspired heartfelt works of art, writing and film from students across America in Chapman University and The 1939 Society’s Holocaust Art & Writing Contest.
chapman, george weiss, jenna leventhal, contest, testimony / Monday, March 10, 2014
Margaret Lambert recalls her experience as an athlete on the Olympic team in Nazi Germany in 1936. Lambert's testimony is featured in the IWitness Activity, 1936 Olympics: Race, Politics & Civil Rights.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Berlin, olympics, margaret lambert / Tuesday, March 11, 2014
A class of 10th graders at High Tech High North County in San Marcos, Calif., experienced IWitness for the first time in a pilot of the newest IWitness activity "1936 Olympics: Race, Politics and Civil Rights."
iwitness, IWitness activity, pilot / Tuesday, March 11, 2014
At 88 years old, Holocaust survivor Sonia Warshawski still has a lot left to teach us.That’s why her granddaughter, film producer/director Leah Warshawski, has begun shooting a documentary called Big Sonia to share the tenacious octogenarian’s incredible life story with the next generation.
/ Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Edith Hamberger remembers the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria by the German Armed Forces, which occurred on the night of March 12 through March 13, 1938.
clip, female, jewish survivor, anschluss, Austria, Edith Hamberger / Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Students and teachers from all over the Bay Area will attend a workshop about USC Shoah Foundation testimony and IWitness at Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JFCS) of San Francisco’s annual Day of Learning on Sun., March 23.
/ Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Sonia Warshawski describes her life after she and her husband migrated to the United States. She also recalls how she educated her children about her experiences in the Holocaust.
clip, Sonia Warshawski, jewish survivor, family / Thursday, March 13, 2014
Following a screening of Finding Hillywood, a documentary about the birth of the Rwandan film industry, Rwandan film pioneer Eric Kabera spoke about making movies 20 years after the genocide in a Q&A hosted by USC Shoah Foundation executive director Stephen Smith.
eric kabera, film / Thursday, March 13, 2014
His Excellency Ilan Mor, Israeli Ambassador to Hungary, observed a lesson taught by a Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century graduate at Berzsenyi Dániel High School, a USC Shoah Foundation partner school in Budapest, Hungary.
budapest, Israel, Andrea Szőnyi, teaching with testimony for the 21st century / Thursday, March 13, 2014
Agnes Kun worked in the hospital at Auschwitz II-Birkenau as an assistant nurse. She recalls Josef Mengele, particularly his presence at the hospital.
auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014