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Steven Spielberg will present William Clay Ford Jr., executive chairman of Ford Motor Company, with USC Shoah Foundation’s highest honor — the Ambassador for Humanity Award –– at the organization’s annual gala.
ambassadors for humanity, gala, ford, Steven Spielberg / Thursday, September 3, 2015
Los Angeles, Sept. 3, 2015 – On Sept. 10, 2015, Steven Spielberg will present William Clay Ford Jr., executive chairman of Ford Motor Company, with USC Shoah Foundation’s highest honor — the Ambassador for Humanity Award –– at the organization’s annual gala. Ford will be recognized for his leadership and corporate citizenry around education and community.
/ Thursday, September 3, 2015
When Tiffany Taylor, director of Teach for America – Detroit, first received an email inviting her to join the advisory board for USC Shoah Foundation’s IWitness Detroit program, she admits it was the first time she had heard of IWitness.But one line in the email caught her eye: “testimony-based education.” Taylor said she was intrigued by this idea and thought immediately about its potential for strengthening the educational movement in Detroit by uplifting student voices in a way that only firsthand experiences can.
/ Friday, September 4, 2015
Los Angeles, Sept. 3, 2015 – On Sept. 10, 2015, Steven Spielberg will present William Clay Ford Jr., executive chairman of Ford Motor Company, with USC Shoah Foundation’s highest honor — the Ambassador for Humanity Award –– at the organization’s annual gala. Ford will be recognized for his leadership and corporate citizenry around education and community.
gala, detroit, ford, spielberg / Thursday, September 3, 2015
Eva Adams fondly remembers the important role that music played in her daily life growing up in Budapest, Hungary before the war..
clip, female, jewish survivor, music, Eva Adams / Thursday, September 3, 2015
Sara Shapiro reflects on the hardships of daily life in the ghetto and later on about surviving with very little food and water while hiding with her mother in a barn.
clip, female, jewish survivor, sara shapiro, hiding / Thursday, September 3, 2015
Mark Webber reflects on life after the Holocaust and meeting his wife Ruth Webber, a survivor of Auschwitz. Then both Mark and Ruth describe their proudest achievement raising, their children in Detroit, Michigan.
clip, male, jewish survivor, mark webber, detroit, life after the holocaust / Thursday, September 3, 2015
Ibolya (Szalai) Grossman remembers being mistreated by neighborhood friends and acquaintances on the day she and and her infant were deported to the Budapest Ghetto.
clip, female, jewish survivor, bystander, Ibolya Grossman, budapest / Friday, September 4, 2015
Paula Lebovics describes her family's desperate search for visas to emigrate from Germany after the war. She remembers being surprised at how easily she acquired an American visa and was able to begin a new life in Detroit, Michigan.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Paula Lebovics, movement, post war, detroit / Friday, September 4, 2015
Virtually everyone has listened to a popular song with its lyrics changed for comedic or dramatic effect. But a perhaps little-known fact of the Holocaust is that this type of parody was also a common practice in some of the most hellish places on Earth: concentration camps.
music as resistance, cagr, music, holocaust, research, center for advanced genocide research / Friday, September 4, 2015
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) has constructed a new IWitness activity in conjunction with the museum’s Some Were Neighbors exhibit.
/ Tuesday, September 8, 2015
A team of eight staff members from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Levine Institute for Holocaust Education is responsible for bringing the Some Were Neighbors IWitness activity to life.
/ Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Attendees of the 2015 Ambassadors for Humanity gala in Detroit on Thursday will get to hear remarks from a Michigan educator who is one of USC Shoah Foundation’s most passionate colleagues.
/ Wednesday, September 9, 2015
After leaving her hometown in Poland to escape Nazi persecution, Ruth remembers observing an atypical Rosh Hashanah in the synagogue of a small Polish town.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Rosh Hashanah, religion, ruth Barr-Shway / Monday, September 14, 2015
It was Ford Motor Company Executive Director William Clay Ford Jr.’s commitment to education and his devotion to the Detroit community that prompted USC Shoah Foundation to honor him with this year’s Ambassador for Humanity Award.
ambassadors for humanity, afh2015, detroit, ford, Steven Spielberg / Monday, September 14, 2015
Anita remembers the incredibly difficult period she spent as a displaced person after being liberated from the Bergen-Belsen camp.
clip, female, jewish survivor, anita lasker wallfisch, refugee, dp camps / Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Jeannie Woods is a seventh and eighth grade language arts teacher at Fort Payne Middle School in Fort Payne, Alabama. Woods was one of the 25 educators who participated in the Auschwitz: The Past is Present professional development program in January 2015.
/ Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Educators have two opportunities to learn about IWitness along with fellow teachers over the next two weeks: a webinar and first-ever Twitter chat.
iwitness, Twitter / Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Kurt Messerschmidt remembers the role of bystanders and explains the importance of standing up to injustice.
clip, Kurt Messerschmidt, jewish survivor, bystander / Thursday, September 17, 2015
While guests of the 2015 Ambassadors for Humanity Gala on Sept. 10 trickled into the Henry Ford Museum and enjoyed a cocktail reception before dinner began, a small group of high school students was hard at work.
gala, ambassadors for humanity, detroit, iwitness, Steven Spielberg / Thursday, September 17, 2015
As Hannah, in the novel The Devil's Arithmetic, needed to have a first-hand experience to fully understand the Holocaust; my students must be equipped with first-hand information, too. While they cannot "time travel" as Hannah does, they can hear from survivors to have a greater understanding of the Holocaust.
education, iwitness, Information Quests, op-eds / Thursday, September 17, 2015
Edward Adler remembers being imprisoned for going on a date with a non-Jewish girl, which violated the Nuremberg Laws, a set of discriminatory, anti-Jewish measures enforced by the Nazi regime in 1935.
clip, jewish survivor, male, antiSemitism, anti-Jewish, edward adler / Thursday, September 17, 2015
After surviving the Holocaust, Abraham Amaterstein became an arts and culture journalist at a newspaper in Chisinau, Moldova. He wrote a review of a concert by the famed composer Dmitri Shostakovich, and Shostakovich was so pleased with the review that he invited Amaterstein to lunch.
/ Thursday, September 17, 2015
V posledních týdnech českou společnost rozdělily názory na vlnu uprchlíků mířících i přes naše území do Německa. Archiv vizuální historie USC Shoah Foundation nabízí možnost reflexe současného dění pomocí vzpomínek na historické události podobného rázu. Není to totiž poprvé, co se s uprchlíky setkáváme. Například v letech 1946–1947 přes naše území přešlo až 200 000 židovských běženců, kteří prchali z Polska před nenávistí, násilím a pogromy.
refugees / Thursday, September 17, 2015
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s newest staff member may have just graduated from USC, but she is already a very familiar face around USC Shoah Foundation.Shefali Deshpande has just completed her second week at the Center for Advanced Genocide Research, where she is assisting director Wolf Gruner with the Center’s upcoming events and administration. She graduated with a bachelor’s in political science and musical theater in May 2015.
/ Friday, September 18, 2015
Musician and music scholar Alexandra Birch will discuss the resistance demonstrated by one of the 20th century’s most renowned composers, Dmitri Shostakovich, in her presentation at the Music as Resistance to Genocide academic symposium.
music as resistance, cagr, symposium / Friday, September 18, 2015