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Nathan Offen recalls when he last saw his younger sister Miriam and his mother before they were deported to a concentration camp. He also speaks about the emotional and physical toll the splitting up of the family had on his father. His testimony is featured in Lesson 5 of Echoes and Reflections
clip, male, echoes and reflections, nathan offen, krakow, déportation, family seperation, jewish survivor / Monday, October 27, 2014
USC Shoah Foundation and ADL hosted the first session of this year’s Holocaust Education Institute Friday, Oct. 24, which was attended by an enthusiastic group of over 50 educators from the Los Angeles area.
/ Monday, October 27, 2014
Sunday, November 16th, 6:30-9:30 p.m.Eileen Norris Cinema Theater ComplexUSC Shoah Foundation and its Center for Advanced Genocide Research present a screening of Schindler’s List as a part of the Through Testimony 2014 International Conference, “Memory, Media, and Technology: Exploring the Trajectories of Schindler’s List.”This event is free and open to the public.
/ Monday, October 27, 2014
Six months after beginning its educational and cultural programming, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews celebrated the opening of its core exhibition and the official grand opening of the museum in Warsaw yesterday.
mhpj, poland / Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Elżbieta Ficowska, a Jewish survivor from Poland, speaks about her experience, so she will continue to remember her parents and other loved ones that perished in the Holocaust. Ficowska describes how there isn’t any physical trace of her parents except for a grave stone she found on a Warsaw Jewish cemetery. Her birth certificate is a silver tee spoon engraved with her name and birthdate, which her father gave to her babysitter on “Aryan side” of Warsaw.
clip, female, Elżbieta Ficowska, jewish survivor, memory / Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Daisy Miller speaks on the importance of the Visual History Archive and how the collection of audiovisual testimonies to the Holocaust will be a valuable resource in education for generations to come.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Daisy Miller, visual history archive, education / Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Thursday is #AskAnArchivist Day. Tweet @USCShoahFdn to ask USC Shoah Foundation's Sandra Aguilar and Daryn Eller about their work as archivists.
visual history archive, its / Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Through an analysis of testimony, students learn about the resistance efforts that took place in the Auschwitz camp complex and about the meaning of resistance in the context of the Holocaust in a new MiniQuest.
iwitness, IWitness activity, past is present / Thursday, October 30, 2014
Roméo Dallaire describes how quickly violence escalated in Rwanda in 1994 and his disappointment in the lack of support from the international community.
clip, male, aid provider, Roméo Dallaire, rwanda, genocide, inaction / Thursday, October 30, 2014
In honor of National Archives Month, here are 10 unique facts about USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive.
Ask an Archivist Day, National Archives Month, #askanarchivist, op-eds / Thursday, October 30, 2014
Herschel Balter describes the role that singing played for him while he was imprisoned in Auschwitz- Birkenau. Herschel’s testimony is featured in the IWitness activity, Auschwitz – Inner Strength, Outward Resistance.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Herschel Balter, auschwitz, iwitness / Thursday, October 30, 2014
Philip Markowicz describes when he and his brother were transported to Flossenburg concentration camp in Germany and the incredible act from a bystander, which saved their lives.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Philip Markowicz, testimony, upstander, bystander, one act, beginswithme / Friday, October 31, 2014
The Rwandan Tutsi Genocide committee at the first Trojan Model UN utilized testimony from the Visual History Archive in order to give the delegates real-life scenarios they couldn’t get anywhere else.
united nations, usc, rwanda / Monday, November 3, 2014
Liliane Bentitou reflects on hiding in Lyon, France and how she was able to conceal her identity with false papers.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Lyon France, Liliane Bentitou, hiding / Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Within the Visual History Archive there are over 8,000 testimonies that reference France, over 1,600 that were conducted in the country and over 1,800 testimonies that were given in French.
Lyon France, visual history archive / Wednesday, November 5, 2014
David Faber recalls the anti-Semitism he experienced as a child in pre-WWII Poland. He describes numerous instances where he was abused physically and emotionally by non-Jewish children on his way to and from school.
clip, male, jewish survivor, David Faber, poland, antiSemitism, childhood, bigotry, prejudice, iwitness / Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Lili Meier describes how she found a photo album, which has become known as the Auschwitz Album, in a deserted SS barracks on the day she was liberated from the Dora concentration camp. The Auschwitz Album is the only known collection of photographs taken by the Nazi SS at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This testimony clip is featured in the IWitness activity Arrival at Auschwitz – Images and Individual Experiences.
clip, female, jewish survivor, auschwitz, lili meier, auschwitz album, iwitness / Wednesday, November 5, 2014
IWitness is typically used in middle- and high school classrooms and college courses, but that may change following this week’s pilot testing of a new activity intended for students as young as fifth grade.
IWitness activity, pilot, chicago / Wednesday, November 5, 2014
For some people, hope is nothing but an airy dream. But for my parents, Elisabeth and George, it is a hard-won reality that they have lived every day of their lives. Their commitment is anything but naïve. They are both survivors of the Holocaust and have experienced anti-Semitism in all its forms. They’ve suffered more than most of us, God willing, will ever experience. And yet, their hope has been a source of redemption and new life.
memory, op-eds / Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Monday, November 17, 7:30-9:00 pmGrand Ballroom at the USC Radisson (3540 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90007)USC Shoah Foundation and its Center for Advanced Genocide Research present an evening panel discussion as a part of the Through Testimony 2014 International Conference, “Memory, Media, and Technology: Exploring the Trajectories of Schindler’s List.”Moderated by USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen D. Smith.
/ Thursday, November 6, 2014
USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education is pleased to announce that Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS), a university in Lyon, France, is the 51st institution, and the first in France, to gain full access to the Institute’s Visual History Archive, a repository of nearly 52,000 video testimonies from survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides.
/ Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Offered by USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education in support of the official 70th anniversary commemoration of the liberation of the former German Nazi concentration and death camp.
a70 / Thursday, November 6, 2014
The educators from 11 different countries representing four continents will attend a four-day workshop during the commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in January 2015.
past is present, teacher training, auschwitz / Thursday, November 6, 2014
In the "Arrival at Auschwitz" activity, students will consider the personal experiences of those who arrived on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau by examining historical photographs and watching testimony.
IWitness activity, past is present, auschwitz, auschwitz album / Friday, November 7, 2014
Miriam Ziegler recalls how she reunited with other Holocaust survivors after she immigrated to Toronto. She also reflects on the famous photo of herself and other the children of Auschwitz photographed by Russian liberators.
clip, female, jewish survivor, auschwitz, photo, memory, reunion, Miriam Ziegler / Friday, November 7, 2014
Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County held a dedication ceremony for its new Holocaust & Heritage Resource Center last week, where its students will use IWitness to learn about the Holocaust.
iwitness, partner school / Monday, November 10, 2014
The 4th annual Student Voices Short Film Contest will open for submissions on Jan. 12, 2015, featuring key changes intended to increase awareness for the contest and help participants complete their projects more efficiently.
student voices / Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Celina Biniaz describes how she and her parents were selected to be on Schindler’ List. She also recalls when the women transport from Plaszow was sent to Auschwitz instead of to the Schindler factory in Brünnlitz.
clip, female, jewish survivor, celina biniaz, auschwitz, schindler jew / Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Local liaisons and educators hosted an ITeach seminar about teaching with testimony at Berzsenyi High School on Saturday, Nov. 8 - the 14th ITeach seminar in Hungary this year.
iTeach, hungary, teaching with testimony for the 21st century / Wednesday, November 12, 2014
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/ Wednesday, November 12, 2014