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One of USC Shoah Foundation’s fiercest supporters will be honored with a leadership award from Hillel at Drexel University this Monday, May 22.
Steve Cozen / Friday, May 19, 2017
The 23rd annual Inforum conference in Prague, Czech Republic, next Tuesday will feature a presentation on IWitness, given by Martin Šmok, USC Shoah Foundation’s Senior International Program Consultant.
Czech Republic, Martin Smok / Monday, May 22, 2017
This program introduces learners to classroom-ready comprehensive print and online resources, sound pedagogy for teaching about the Holocaust and instructional pathways to help students learn about the complex history of the Holocaust.
/ Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Marthe Twizeyimana and Philippe Samvura both completed IWitness training workshops in the past and are now two of nine total “IWitness ambassadors” in Rwanda, dedicated to introducing other educators to IWitness.
iwitness, rwanda / Wednesday, May 24, 2017
The course will increase the Institute's ability to train globally and significantly scale up indexing capacities.
/ Friday, May 26, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research staff will be traveling around the world this summer to host academic workshops about the Visual History Archive.
visual history archive / Thursday, May 25, 2017
Such topics as raising awareness and support for the deaf community, combatting stereotypes and bullying throughout their schools, and helping the homeless were just a few of the worthy ventures students took on this year.
iwitness challenge / Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Los Angeles, May 25, 2017 – USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education has partnered with the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) to integrate all videos from the AGBU WebTalks series—addressing both the Armenian Genocide and Armenian identity—into USC Shoah Foundation’s award-winning IWitness educational website.
/ Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Homosexual survivor Stefan Kosinski describes his budding romance with a young German soldier, which was taboo at the time because Stefan was Polish. The soldier was kind and generous toward Stefan.
clip / Wednesday, May 31, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life invite proposals for their 2018 International Conference.
call for proposals / Wednesday, May 31, 2017
A thematic seminar that will interweave content related to both the Holocaust and present-day experiences of intolerance and persecution. The
seminar is inquiry-based, inviting teachers to acknowledge and incorporate the culture of their students into their curriculum and the broader
classroom experience. The program takes a writing based approach to Holocaust and social justice education.
Speakers and events will include:
/ Thursday, June 1, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation has established four “mirror sites” for the Visual History Archive, guaranteeing that a fully-functional Visual History Archive will exist in perpetuity outside its home at the University of Southern California.
visual history archive / Thursday, June 1, 2017
The new program includes a toolkit on IWitness and an diversity summit in winter 2017.
intercollegiate diversity congress / Friday, June 2, 2017
Holocaust survivor Miriam Brysk describes the discrimination she experienced as a woman in college and in her post-doctorate work.
clip / Friday, June 2, 2017
Omer Bartov, the 2017 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence and John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University, gave the Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar Annual Lecture at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research focusing on his upcoming book about the East Galician town of Buczacz, which transformed from a site of coexistence, where Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews had lived side-by-side for centuries, into a site of genocide.
cagr / Friday, June 2, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith is an executive producer of the film, and most of the survivors featured in the film also gave their testimonies to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive.
/ Tuesday, June 6, 2017
After hundreds of motorcyclists ride through Rhode Island on June 9, they will sit down to a Shabbat dinner and learn about USC Shoah Foundation’s New Dimensions in Testimony.
/ Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Charlotte talks about Althea Jenkins, the woman who taught her to speak English in Providence, Rhode Island. Althea was a great teacher and loved Charlotte and her family.
clip / Wednesday, June 7, 2017
The art is black and white and full color; impressionistic and starkly realistic; hopeful for the future and filled with sorrow for the past. And it was all inspired by testimony from the Visual History Archive.
hungary, art / Thursday, June 8, 2017
Enrico discusses June 10, 1940, the day Italy declared war on Britain and France. That day, the Germans swept the city to take the Jews from their homes. He was able to escape hours before he was to be caught.
clip / Friday, June 9, 2017
As it nears two years of official programming, the IWitness Detroit program has changed the face of testimony-based education in Michigan.
detroit, iwitness detroit / Friday, June 9, 2017
The grand prize winner of the 2017 IWitness Video Challenge, by Yu Jing Chen, Alana Chandler and Natalia Wang of Walter Payton College Preparatory, Chicago. The project inspires students to illustrate and share the various traits that make up their identities.
/ Monday, June 12, 2017
Second place winner of the 2017 IWitness Video Challenge. By Acadia Grantham
/ Monday, June 12, 2017
Third place winner of the 2017 IWitness Video Challenge. By Shayna Kantor
/ Monday, June 12, 2017
A group of students from Chicago who inspired their fellow students to embrace each other’s unique identity has won the 2017 IWitness Video Challenge sponsored by USC Shoah Foundation.
IWitness Video Challenge Winner, iwitness video challenge / Monday, June 12, 2017
Los Angeles, June 13, 2017 – A group of students from Chicago who inspired their fellow students to embrace each other’s unique identity has won the 2017 IWitness Video Challenge sponsored by USC Shoah Foundation.
/ Tuesday, June 13, 2017
There are still spots available for educators to participate in the Holocaust Educators Network Summer Seminar on Holocaust education and social justice, to be held July 23-29, 2017.
/ Thursday, June 15, 2017
The staff at USC Shoah Foundation is saddened to learn about recent the passing of Asa Shapiro, father of board member Mickey Shapiro and Holocaust survivor.
holocaust / Friday, June 16, 2017