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.

Odette discusses how her mother risked her life to help eight Jews escape Germany by selling her jewelry. This is a part of the USC Shoah Foundation’s Women’s History Month Clip series.

Tetje and another woman helped over 200 children hide away when their homes were bombed. This is a part of the USC Shoah Foundation’s Women’s History Month Clip series.

Maria talks about her aunt Adele Bloch-Bauer, who was painted by Gustav Kilmt in his “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer.” Nazi soldiers confiscated the painting at the start of WWII and after the war, the Austrian State Gallery claimed the painting as its own. Years later, Altmann fought to get the painting back for her family and she went before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2004. Ultimately, it was decided that the painting be sold to the Neue Galerie in New York City, and is currently worth $135 million. This is a part of the USC Shoah Foundation’s Women’s History Month Clip series.

Lily talks about being a very active community worker for Israel. This is a part of the USC Shoah Foundation’s Women’s History Month Clip series.

Agnes talks about delivering messages to the Jews and how she brought them to her aunt’s home where they could hide. This is a part of the USC Shoah Foundation’s Women’s History Month Clip series.

Anna talks about how she strongly believed that what the Germans were doing was morally wrong and how she did what she could to save many children during the Holocaust. This is a part of the USC Shoah Foundation’s Women’s History Month Clip series.

Irene talks about her dangerous experience helping six of her Jewish friends in hiding. This is a part of the USC Shoah Foundation’s Women’s History Month Clip series.

In honor of Women's History Month in March, discover some of the diverse experiences of women in the Visual History Archive.

Renee describes her life in America after the war, including her marriage, career as a fashion designer, and decision to start speaking about her experiences during the Holocaust. This is part of USC Shoah Foundation's Women's History Month series.

Lisa Slater, who served as a teletypist in the German army durign World War II, remembers seeing a cattle car train filled with Jewish men, women and children. She had never seen such a thing and did not know where they were going.

Starting immediately, ProQuest will become the exclusive distributor of USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive to colleges and universities around the world.

Los Angeles, January 21, 2016 – To meet growing demand for access to the world’s largest archive of genocide testimony, USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education announces its Visual History Archive Program, which will reimagine how users connect to the testimonies.Made possible by an initial transformative donation from Lee Liberman, a member of the Institute’s Board of Councilors Executive Committee, the wide-ranging, five-year plan will look to:

A lecture by Benjamin Madley (University of California, Los Angeles) USC, Social Sciences Building, Room 250 

In the first step of an ambitious multiyear plan to significantly broaden access and meet growing demand for the world's largest archive of genocide testimony, USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education announces a landmark partnership with ProQuest, a technology company that empowers researchers at universities, libraries, schools and knowledge-driven organizations around the world.

One class was in Charlotte, North Carolina. The other, in Kigali, Rwanda. But on Friday, March 4, nearly 60 students came together via Skype to talk about what they learned from IWitness’s Bystander Effect activity.

Emily Bengels’s students are already well on their way to submitting their projects to the IWitness Video Challenge.

Aaron Cohen describes moving to Los Angeles and looking for a stable job. After he found his calling, he never missed a day of work in 42 years.

Renée Firestone had successful career as fashion designer after moving to Los Angeles. She recalls the conversation that convinced her to tell her story.

Aided by their exploration of the Visual History Archive, three students and a professor from USC presented a panel discussion at the fifth annual ucLADINO Symposium at UCLA March 2-3, 2015.

The film originally premiered at Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on January 27, 2015, the commemoration ceremony for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camp.

USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research is offering summer fellowships for undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty at University of Southern California. The deadline to submit an application is March 31, 2016.

Auschwitz survivor Eva Kor will be in Los Angeles next week to film an interview for New Dimensions in Testimony, USC Shoah Foundation’s three-dimensional, interactive virtual encounter with Holocaust survivors.

IWitness continues to add new testimony clips to its Watch page, which cover a range of topics from Japanese internment to the Armenian Genocide.

At the spring gathering of the Union of Civics Educators in Prague on March 19, teachers learned about IWitness as a tool for teaching about refugees.

Jack Wysoki says that he survived the Holocaust because of a combination of determination, focus, and refusal to give up.

Emma Heinz, Natalie Podstawka and Lisa Farese share their tips for constructing a winning video.