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USC Shoah Foundation is honoring the 78th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre today by returning to Nanjing to record 20 new testimonies for its Nanjing Massacre collection.
Nanjing Massacre, nanjing / Saturday, December 12, 2015
Through a partnership with the National Jewish Theater Foundation, IWitness has added a brand-new activity that guides secondary students to develop historical narrative monologues using testimonies of Holocaust survivors, witnesses and liberators.
iwitness / Friday, December 11, 2015
You’re never too old to learn about cultural diversity.
I realized this over the weekend, on the eve of Hanukkah. My mom, a fourth grade teacher, told me about an incident she’d just experienced at a local party-supply store.
She was shopping for her annual Hanukkah lesson, in which she briefly teaches her students the meaning of the holiday, demonstrates how she lights our family menorah, and leads them in a spirited game of dreidel. Everyone goes home with a little bag of chocolate gelt, a dreidel and maybe a Hanukkah-themed pencil.
hanukkah, Diversity, Holidays, Tolerance, op-eds / Thursday, December 10, 2015
Edith talks about the constant fear of being taken hostage and the kind efforts of a family that helped hide her and her brother in a barn. She talks about finally being able to give this family along with the countless other aid givers that helped keep Edith's family alive the proper recognition that they deserve.
clip, righteous among the nations / Monday, December 14, 2015
Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt remembers painting a mural based on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" on a wall in one of the children's barracks at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Poland.
clip, auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary, Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt, Auschwitz70 / Monday, December 14, 2015
Victor Borge was originally born in Copenhagen, but fled to Sweden once Nazis occupied Denmark during World War II. He managed to escape to the United States in 1940 on one of the last neutral ships leaving Europe. While in the U.S, Borge went on to become a famous comedian, conductor, and pianist. In this clip, he is playing a lullaby written by one of his father’s friends.
clip, male, jewish surivor, victor borge, DOR15, music / Monday, December 14, 2015
Shony Braun a violinist, recalls being selected to play music for the SS officers at Dachau. He believes that he would’ve been killed if not for his ability to play music.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Shony Braun, comcast, DOR15, dachau, camp orchestra / Monday, December 14, 2015
Andrew Merkler speaks about life after the Holocaust and his work as a playwright.
clip, art, playwright, hollywood reporter andrew merkler, life after holocaust / Monday, December 14, 2015
Ruth Westheimer reflects on her studies in the United States after WWII and her long career as “Dr. Ruth.”
clip, life after holocaust, Ruth Westheimer / Monday, December 14, 2015
Robert Clary reflects on his decision to go back to show business after the Holocaust.
clip, Robert Clary / Monday, December 14, 2015
Bulgarian actress, Rebeka Arabova reflects on the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia and discusses how the war and the Holocaust had affected her childhood development, her entire life, and her personality.
clip, video, bulgarian, holocaust survivor, Rebeka Arabova / Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Bulgarian actor, Itskhak Fintsi discusses his childhood perceptions of World War II and reflects on the psychological reactions to, and impact of his experience in the Holocaust on his life.
clip, holocaust survivor, bulgarian, Itskhak Fintsi / Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Leon Prochnik and his family fled Nazi occupied Poland and immigrated to New York City. He describes how differently his perception of World War II was for himself as a child than his father, who still had a majority of his family in Poland.
clip, holocaust survivor, Leon Prochnik, childhood / Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Ruth Posner, a dancer, choreographer and actress describes her training and career around the world after World War II.
clip, holocaust survivor, ruth posner / Tuesday, December 15, 2015
After surviving the Holocaust, William Harvey immigrated to New York City and started working at a beauty shop simply because he needed to work. William Harvey continues to describe how his skill flourished and the A-list and celebrity clients who visited the shop.
clip, holocaust, William Harvey / Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Holocaust survivor and rescuer Curt Lowens emotionally reflects on arriving to the United States after World War II. He also describes why he decided to pursue a career in entertainment as an actor.
clip, holocaust, curt lowens / Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Sarah Griffitts is a social studies high school teacher at the Calgary Board of Education in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She received a BA in History at Mount Royal College and an MA in History from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Her master’s thesis focused on the establishment of Chelmno and Sobibor through the path of the Einsatzgruppen.
/ Tuesday, December 15, 2015
I found as a teacher that the most challenging task when teaching about the Holocaust and genocide, is how to do it not using material that shocks the students to the point that they do not want to look at the content, study the history or listen to present day issues due to the emotional shut down that can occur.
holocaust, education, iwitness, GAM, op-eds / Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Last spring, as the world observed its annual commemorations of genocides like the Rwandan Tutsi Genocide and the Holocaust, the staff of The Hollywood Reporter got to talking about how many Holocaust survivors had Hollywood connections, and how many of them were still alive.
/ Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Armenian Genocide survivor Haigas Bonapart talks about denial of the genocide. This clip is one of the newest to be published on the IWitness "Watch" page.
clip, Armenian Genocide / Wednesday, December 16, 2015
The IWitness team has added 52 new clips to the Watch page. These clips cover a wide range of topics, from the Armenian Genocide to the Nanjing Massacre.
iwitness / Wednesday, December 16, 2015
The 2015 International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling awarded “Best Paper” to the staff of USC Shoah Foundation’s New Dimensions in Testimony project.
New Dimensions in Testimony / Thursday, December 17, 2015
Jerquila Slaughter’s students were inspired to make a real difference in their community after watching testimony in IWitness.After learning about IWitness at the Dallas Holocaust Museum Center for Education and Tolerance’s summer workshop for teachers, Slaughter began assigning IWitness activities to her students at Gilliam Collegiate Academy this semester.She used IWitness in her elective course that covers topics such as genocide and gentrification this semester and plans to also use IWitness in her Advanced Research course this spring.
/ Thursday, December 17, 2015
As 2015 comes to an end our education team takes a look at the 10 IWitness activities most assigned by educators.
iwitness, education, 2015, op-eds / Friday, December 18, 2015
A smartphone app makes it possible to view testimony clips from the Visual History Archive that are linked to the new book Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations.
March of the Living, book / Friday, December 18, 2015
Olga Menczer describes how her family celebrated Hanukkah while she was growing up in Hungary.
/ Monday, December 21, 2015
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21, 2015 – Longtime USC Shoah Foundation board member Mickey Shapiro has given a gift to fund an endowed research fellowship program at the Institute’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research in honor of his parents, Sara and Asa Shapiro, who both survived the Holocaust.
mickey shapiro, fellowship / Monday, December 21, 2015
A teacher in Hungary used testimony to introduce some of her school’s youngest students to Jewish culture.
Teaching with Testimony, Teaching with Testimony in 21st Century, Andrea Szőnyi, hungary, budapest / Monday, December 21, 2015