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cagr / Thursday, August 18, 2016
The two newest activities in IWitness were written by teachers who were inspired to help fellow educators teach their students profound lessons using testimony from the Visual History Archive.
iwitness / Thursday, August 18, 2016
Holocaust survivor Romana Farrington breaks down stereotypes about Catholic Poles during the Holocaust. This clip is part of the new IWitness activity What is "The Danger of a Single Story"?.
clip / Thursday, August 18, 2016
About 60 librarians and archivists from the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) viewed a webinar about the Visual History Archive on Thursday, August 18, hosted by ProQuest and USC Shoah Foundation.
visual history archive, visual history archive program, proquest, doug ballman / Friday, August 19, 2016
Frances Zatz describes the Polish Home Army's uprising in Warsaw, Poland in August 1944, which was spurred by the belief that Soviet forces across the Vistula River would liberate them. The Soviet army did not intervene, leaving the Warsaw inhabitants to defend themselves against heavy German fire. Among Warsaw Rising fighters were Polish Jews who survived Warsaw Ghetto Uprising that took place a year earlier. Some of them were prisoners of Gesiowka Concentration Camp liberated by Polish Home Army at the very beginning of the Risin, on August 4th, 1944.
clip / Friday, August 19, 2016
In 1912, only two athletes from the Ottoman Empire went to compete in the Olympics - both were Armenian. Vahram Papazyan was one of them. During his testimony, he recalls fainting in the middle of his race because of anxiety over what he would do and what could happen if he won. During the 1912 Stockholm Olympics the Finnish team, who had participated since 1908 under the Russian flag, refused to march under the Russian flag and was allowed to do so.
clip / Monday, August 22, 2016
Kim Kerwin was one of a select group of teachers who participated in USC Shoah Foundation’s first three-day ITeach Institute in Michigan last week, and she walked away from the training inspired to incorporate testimony into her classes at St. Fabian Catholic School.
/ Monday, August 22, 2016
The first moderated session at USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s conference, “A Conflict? Genocide and Resistance in Guatemala” will be on “Studying Perpetrators” and be moderated by USC International Relations Professor Carol Wise.
Guatemalan Genocide, cagr / Monday, August 22, 2016
Holocaust survivor Michael Preisler describes how Father Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to take the place of a man who was to be killed at Auschwitz for attempting to escape. Kolbe was locked in a bunker without food or water for two weeks before he was finally killed by lethal injection.
clip / Tuesday, August 23, 2016
USC Shoah Foundation is accepting applications from students interested in working with testimony for the third year of the Institute’s Junior Intern Program.
junior interns, iwitness / Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Holocaust survivor Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis urges Jews to continue their practice of Judaism and to pass their love for their faith on to their children. Esther passed away August 23, 2016.
clip / Wednesday, August 24, 2016
This collection of photos offers a rare glimpse of an outdoor Jewish ghetto in the countryside – specifically in Kutno, Poland. The images depict a form of ghetto that was actually more common, but far less known, than the urban settings (i.e. Warsaw Ghetto) that are cemented in the public imagination.
cagr / Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Gordon Klasky describes the conditions of the Kutno ghetto in Poland.
/ Wednesday, August 24, 2016
The Watch page on IWitness has added Polish-language testimony clips for the first time, plus several other Hungarian and English-language clips, in time for the start of the 2016-2017 school year.
iwitness / Wednesday, August 24, 2016
In an effort to create a deeper engagement with educators online, USC Shoah Foundation’s IWitness hosts Twitter chats on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month. Meet fellow IWitness educators, ask questions directly to the IWitness team and join the IWitness community.
#IWitnessChat, echoes and reflections / Thursday, August 25, 2016
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research to Honor Holocaust Scholar David Cesarani
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research will host a symposium to honor the work of leading Holocaust scholar David Cesarani from Great Britain, who died last year just weeks after being named the Center’s inaugural Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence.
/ Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Mélanie Péron discovered the power of personal stories the first time she was assigned to teach the Holocaust at the University of Pennsylvania. She had started out the course just trying to teach dry historical facts, and it didn’t go very well.
“It was one of the hardest experiences ever,” Péron said. “It was horrendous. My students were bored, I was scared. Finally I said, ‘We’re going to do something else.’”
/ Thursday, August 25, 2016
UCLA Latin American Studies Professor Bonnie Taub will moderate the panel “Repression and Resistance” on the first full day of the conference.
cagr, Guatemala, Guatemalan Genocide / Thursday, August 25, 2016
After a short stay in the city's orphanage in Warsaw, Michal Glowiński was taken to a Catholic orphanage run by nuns in Turkowice, where he was hidden along with over thirty other Jewish children. The sisters showed dedication and kindness for hiding Jewish children. This is one of the first Polish-language clips to be added to the IWitness Watch page.
clip / Thursday, August 25, 2016
Barbara Stimler describes the conditions of the Kutno ghetto in Poland.
cagr / Thursday, August 25, 2016
A lecture by Paula Cuellar Cuellar (University of Minnesota)
2016-2017 Center Graduate Research Fellow
USC, Doheny Memorial Library, Herklotz Room (Music Library)
cagr / Thursday, August 25, 2016
A lecture by Stefanie Coché
USC, Social Sciences Building (SOS), Room 250
Presented by the USC Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies. Cosponsored by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research.
Please RSVP at kade@usc.edu or 213-743-2707.
cagr / Thursday, August 25, 2016
A lecture by Anna Holian (Arizona State University)
USC, Social Sciences Building (SOS), Room 250
Presented by the USC Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies. Cosponsored by the Casden Institute, USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, and the Visual Studies Research Institute.
Please RSVP at kade@usc.edu or 213-743-2707.
cagr / Thursday, August 25, 2016
As you prepare your lessons plans for this year’s school year explore seven reasons why you should teach with testimony.
backtoschoolwithIWitness, iwitness, Teaching with Testimony, back to school, op-eds / Friday, August 26, 2016
A team of USC Shoah Foundation researchers has identified over 800 new indexing terms that will be added to the Visual History Archive when it undergoes its next big update in the coming weeks.
visual history archive, indexing, Crispin Brooks / Friday, August 26, 2016
Jack Bernstein describes the excitement in France when World War II ended and France was liberated from German occupation. There was a moment of panic when people spotted German soldiers marching through the town, but they were prisoners of war in the custody of French soldiers.
clip / Friday, August 26, 2016
Jack Bernstein describes the excitement in France when World War II ended and France was liberated from German occupation. There was a moment of panic when people spotted German soldiers marching through the town, but they were prisoners of war in the custody of French soldiers.
clip / Friday, August 26, 2016
A new Connections video from IWitness on Guidelines for Teaching with Testimony.
/ Monday, August 29, 2016
Today’s younger generation is often known for having short attention spans. They want their news short and immediately. But it’s for exactly this reason that Texas A&M senior Anna Davis enjoyed listening to testimony through USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive.
/ Monday, August 29, 2016
The Visual History Archive added 1,302 new testimonies, 1,361 new interviewees, six new experience groups, one new historic event and 10 new collections in a single update over the weekend.
visual history archive, Guatemalan Genocide, canada, Rwandan Genocide / Monday, August 29, 2016