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IWitness is expanding its offerings for non-English speakers.
Julia Werner, the 2015-2016 Greenberg Fellow, gave a public lecture at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research focusing on photographs of ghettoization of the Jewish population in Poland, which is part of her wider dissertation research project on photography in occupied Poland.
In her talk, Bothe shared her analysis of comments on USC Shoah Foundation's YouTube channel.
Tusia Heiman describes how she narrowly avoided being attacked by a Russian soldier at a party. October 25 is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
Every once in a while, I have a moment when seemingly disconnected ideas collide in peculiar relief, bringing clarity and making sense – admittedly sometimes only to me. I had one of those days recently when I was looking at the calendar and realized that International Women’s Day on March 8 was approaching.
Educators in Hungary are encouraged to apply for this year’s Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century program. The deadline is April 3, 2016.
Sonia speaks about Wilhelmina Weissmuller, a non-Jewish humanitarian who made it her mission to get as many Jewish children out of Germany on the Kinderstransport as she could. March is Women's History Month.
For Women’s History Month, bring the unique voices of women who survived or stood up against some of the worst atrocities of the 20th century into your classroom. Facing History is partnering with USC Shoah Foundation to help educators access more than 1,500 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses to the Holocaust and other genocides using the Institute’s online learning tool, IWitness.
Bothe’s lecture, “Meeting Survivors Online: Negotiating Memory in the Virtual In-Between,” focused on both the theory and practical implications of the “digital turn,” or the rapidly evolving digital landscape that is changing how people interact with the virtual and analog worlds. Her research is centered on the Visual History Archive as a paradigmatic example of this shift in action.
Eleven new lesson plans and long term educational projects were developed during the fourth Polish edition of the Teaching with Testimony program.