Smith will introduce 2,500 business executives from around the world to USC Shoah Foundation at Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO)’s annual EDGE conference, held March 1-3 in Vancouver.
Stephen Smith / Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Teresa Walch, the 2016-2017 Inaugural Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies, gave a public lecture at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research focusing on the calculated and gradual exclusion of Jews from public spaces and ultimately from their own homes that began in the 1930s.
cagr / Thursday, March 2, 2017
Professor Lee Ann Fujii (University of Toronto) gave a public lecture at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research focusing on her new book and acts of resistance.
cagr / Thursday, March 2, 2017
100 testimony clips featured on each day of 100 Days to Inspire Respect, USC Shoah Foundation's educational program from January 20-April 29, 2017. The program offers middle and high school teachers easy-to-use resources that encourage their students to grapple with difficult but important topics: hate, racism, intolerance and xenophobia.
100 days to inspire respect / Thursday, March 2, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Rwandan Tutsi Genocide survivor Kizito Kalima describes a time when he and his classmates faced discrimination while he was a student.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Thursday, March 2, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Celina describes what it was like returning to Poland, and later Germany, after the war. While some people she and her parents encountered were hostile toward Jews, others were kind and accepting, especially the German nun who tutored Celina.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Thursday, March 2, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Emmanuel Muhinda describes the persecution of Tutsi and anti-Tutsi propaganda he witnessed before the genocide started in April 1994. His testimony is featured in the IWitness activity, Information Quest: The Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Thursday, March 2, 2017
Just over halfway into her month-long residency at USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, 2016-2017 Greenberg Research Fellow Katja Schatte has already surpassed her expectations about what she would discover in the Visual History Archive. Schatte sat down for a Facebook Live interview about her research and her fellowship at the Center. She will give a public lecture about her work on March 7 on the USC campus.
cagr / Friday, March 3, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Ruth — whose son, a journalist, was executed by terrorists in 2002 — explains how critical thinking and respect for common humanity can save lives.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, March 3, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Sara discusses how she was labeled and ostracized because of where she was raised.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, March 3, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Ursula describes her first experience with antisemitism: her birthday party, when none of her friends showed up because of Ursula's faith.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, March 3, 2017
Resources this week engage students to think about the experiences of women in a variety of contexts.
100 days to inspire respect / Friday, March 3, 2017
Educators from the Ronald Lauder Jewish School in Prague took a day to be educated last month, taking a course generally assigned to their students with USC Shoah Foundation Senior International Program Consultant Martin Šmok.
Martin Smok, lauder, Prague, Czech Republic / Thursday, March 2, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Guixiang explains that as an orphan in the Nanjing Massacre, it was much harder to find a foster family as a girl than as a boy.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Monday, March 6, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation is co-sponsoring an advance screening of the new Polish documentary "Bogdan’s Journey" in Los Angeles on Wednesday, March 8.
cagr / Monday, March 6, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Gizel describes how she avoided being raped by her Russian liberators.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Tuesday, March 7, 2017
In the collective memory, the February Revolution has faded or been mixed with the October Revolution, which happened eight months later and defined the trajectory of the Russian history for the next 70 years. However, the memory of the February Revolution is preserved in several eyewitness testimonies to the Holocaust in the Visual History Archive.
Holocaust testimony, russia, Russian testimony, February Revolution, op-eds / Tuesday, March 7, 2017
English Translation of testimony clip: “The February Revolution, - that’s how I perceived it being a girl, - was a celebration. It was a fraternization! It was a jubilation! The bonds of an old order were broken: [before] you were not allowed to do this and that. If you were a nobleman, you were allowed to do everything, but if you were a burgess, you were deprived of everything. There were a lot of ties and bonds. But [the Revolution], it was such a liberation and joy! [People] were fraternizing!”
clip, female, aid provider, February Revolution / Tuesday, March 7, 2017
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clip, February Revolution, Boris Markhovskii / Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Solly Ganor (Henkind) was born in 1927 in Silute, Lithuania. In 1941, Solly with his family was incarcerated in Kaunas ghetto. In 1944, he was deported to Stutthof concentration camp and then to Kaufering Lager X and Dachau. Solly was liberated in 1945. His father, Heim Henkind, born in 1891 in Minsk, then Russian Empire (today Belarus), was a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Men’sheviks), that was emerged after the division of the Party in two groups, Men’sheviks and Bol’sheviks.
clip, Solly Ganor, February Revolution / Tuesday, March 7, 2017
On March 8, 1917 (February 23 in the Julian calendar), in Petrograd, then the capital of the Russian Empire (today St. Petersburg), the February Revolution began. It brought about many rights and freedoms of which Russian citizens had hitherto deprived. On April 2, 1917, the Pale of Settlement, a long-term restriction on Jewish residence in the Russian Empire, was abolished.
February Revolution, russia, 100th anniversary / Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Svetlana Ushakova currently works in the collections department at USC Shoah Foundation as a content specialist. She received her doctoral degree in Russian history at the Novosibirsk State University, Russia. She is the author and co-author of several publications on the history of Soviet ideological campaigns, social mobilization, and adaptation methods used by peasant families to survive Soviet deportation and exile.
/ Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Educators have a new slate of webinars to choose from in 2017 to enhance their knowledge and skills for using Echoes and Reflections and IWitness in the classroom.
echoes and reflections, iwitness, webinar / Tuesday, March 7, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Saba discusses the role and expectations of women in the Orthodox Jewish community.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Wednesday, March 8, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Renee Firestone is a Holocaust survivor who was interviewed by USC Shoah Foundation and went on to become an interviewer herself. She discusses the interviewing process and describes how listening to testimony is an emotional experience.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Thursday, March 9, 2017
Holocaust survivor Arthur Spindler elaborates on the misconceptions that many people had of Jewish people during the time. Jewish people were illustrated as scary-evil people, that were responsible for the issues in society.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Arthur Spindler, antiSemitism / Thursday, March 9, 2017
Tutsi Survivor Esperance Kaligirwa recants how her father needed to bribe the police in order to not be arrested. Despite, having an all the necessary documentation her father still was forced to pay to ensure that him and his family could travel safely.
clip, female, tutsi survivor, discirmination, Esperance Kaligirwa / Thursday, March 9, 2017
Through testimony of genocide survivors from the Visual History Archive, it is possible to examine how stereotypes manifest into society and fuel prejudice.
Sterotype, prejudice, beginswithme, discrimination, racism, op-eds / Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Katja Schatte, USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s 2016-17 Greenberg Research Fellow, shared some of the discoveries she’s made in the Visual History Archive at her public lecture on March 7.
cagr, greenberg fellow / Thursday, March 9, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Elizabeth recalls a peaceful protest in a nearby town that turned violent, giving her the opportunity to protest against police brutality in Washington.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, March 10, 2017

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