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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
Today IWitness launched its entire suite of new content and features to coincide with the new school year, including 13 new multimedia activities on a variety of languages and topics.
IWitness activity / Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Abraham Grossman describes his art teacher Herr Kruger, who began each class with "Heil Hitler" and once tossed Grossman out of class because of the sandwich he had brought for lunch.
clip / Tuesday, August 30, 2016
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites applications from senior scholars for its 2017-2018 Center Research Fellowship. The fellowship provides $30,000 support and will be awarded to an outstanding senior scholar from any discipline who will advance genocide research through the use of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and other USC resources.
cagr / Wednesday, August 31, 2016
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites proposals for its 2016- 2017 Interdisciplinary Research Week that will provide support for an interdisciplinary group of international scholars to develop and discuss a collaborative innovative research project in the field of Holocaust and Genocide Studies using the video testimonies of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive (VHA) and other related resources at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
cagr / Wednesday, August 31, 2016
The New Dimensions in Testimony installation that has been on display at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C. this summer will close after Labor Day Weekend.
New Dimensions in Testimony / Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Linguistic racism that led to the Guatemalan Genocide will be explored in “Racist Discourse and Genocide,” the third Monday panel session during USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s conference “A Conflict? Genocide and Resistance in Guatemala.”
Guatemalan Genocide, cagr / Thursday, September 1, 2016
Guatemalan hip-hop artist Rebeca Lane will perform at Bovard Auditorium Tuesday, Sept. 13, as part of an event hosted by Visions and Voices and co-sponsored by USC Shoah Foundation and El Centro Chicano. The event will be a part of the Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s conference, “A Conflict? Genocide and Resistance in Guatemala.”
Lane is a feminist rapper who is breaking down boundaries in the Latin American hip-hop scene by challenging traditional gender norms and speaking out about Guatemalan’s violent past.
/ Thursday, September 1, 2016
Armenian Genocide scholar Israel Charny discusses the benefits of an international genocide early warning system.
clip / Thursday, September 1, 2016
USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith will discuss New Dimensions in Testimony on Sept. 6 at the conference Remembering the Holocaust and Genocide in the Digital Age, hosted by the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC).
New Dimensions in Testimony, south africa / Friday, September 2, 2016
Eva talks about the liberation of Dachau by the American soldiers and how quiet it was leading up to the liberation. Many children who got sick from eating the candy and chocolate that the soldiers gave them.
clip / Friday, September 2, 2016
As a teenager, Bertie traveled to Johannesburg to start a new life with her adoptive parents. Although they did not agree with her desire to attend college, Lubinsky pursued other options in order to be able to finance her own formal education.
clip / Friday, September 2, 2016
Students who are learning about the Holocaust have probably heard a lot about antisemitism as it manifested itself in Europe in the 1930s and ‘40s. What they might not realize, however, is that antisemitism still affects students just like them today, right here in America.
/ Tuesday, September 6, 2016