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Thea describes how Russian soldiers raped Jewish women as they traveled through Europe after the war.
clip / Thursday, November 2, 2017
Susanne describes how she and her mother, along with other women, were raped and tortured by members of the Arrow Cross party in Budapest.
clip / Thursday, November 2, 2017
Kitizo shares what happened to several women in his family and how he tried to help them.
clip / Thursday, November 2, 2017
Irene describes how she was raped every day while she was in prison in Yugoslavia.
clip / Thursday, November 2, 2017
Liberator Thomas D'Aquino describes in this clip his impressions upon entering Dachau.
Watch his full-length testimony at vhaonline.usc.edu
liberation, comcast / Thursday, November 2, 2017
World War II veteran Brendon Phibbs recounts liberating French dignitaries, including the premier, held captive by the Nazi's. He also mentions some infamous characters he and his troops rounded up around the same time.
Watch his full-length testimony at vhaonline.usc.edu
/ Thursday, November 2, 2017
In this short clip, World War II veteran David Pollock talks about the impact that the devastation of the war had on what he wanted to do with his life as a post-war civilian.
Watch his full-length testimony on vhaonline.usc.edu
/ Thursday, November 2, 2017
Liberator Ernest James offers a word of advice to future generations about the importance of personal responsibility, especially the charge of democratic participation.
Watch his full-length testimony at vhaonline.usc.edu
/ Thursday, November 2, 2017
in his lecture at USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research on Thursday, Professor Alexander Hinton shared insights into the life trajectory of the infamous Comrade Duch, commandant of the former S-21 prison in Phnom Penh, and the lessons Duch might offer as we attempt to understand how ordinary people commit genocide.
cagr, Cambodian Genocide / Friday, November 3, 2017
Historian Boris Adjemian gave a public lecture cosponsored by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the USC Institute of Armenian Studies about the making of Armenian archival collections of survivors’ testimonies after the Armenian genocide and the evolution of their historiographical uses.
cagr / Friday, November 3, 2017
Led by the feature film Saving Private Ryan, viewers will explore the stories of liberators and those they liberated from genocide – acts that inspired the first moments of hope amidst the unthinkable.
/ Monday, November 6, 2017
Just a couple weeks after attending USC Shoah Foundation’s Intercollegiate Diversity Congress (IDC) Summit, DePauw University Student Body President Erika Killion already has a plan for incorporating testimony clips and other USC Shoah Foundation educational resources into campus activities.
/ Monday, November 6, 2017
From Oct. 24-26 at the USC Shoah Foundation office in Los Angeles, education staff guided the attendees through methodologies of building testimony-based educational content in IWitness and discussed plans and expectations for each institution moving forward.
fafg, chile, Guatemala, iwitness, education / Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Holocaust liberator Floyd Dade decribes liberating Gunskirchen concentration camp in Austria.
clip / Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Liberator Katsugo Miho describes what happened when he entered Dachau and encountered the prisoners there.
clip / Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Fresh off of USC Shoah Foundation’s Intercollegiate Diversity Congress (IDC) Summit, Memphis University Student Body Vice President Kevyanna Rawls has some new expectations for her school. With testimony clips and other USC Shoah Foundation educational resources gleaned from the Summit, she’ll have plenty with which to make an impact.
/ Thursday, November 9, 2017
IWitness has gathered a variety of multimedia resources to help teachers teach and students learn about the new film The Promise, a historical fiction film that conveys a multi-perspective history of the Armenian Genocide.
Armenian Genocide / Thursday, November 9, 2017
Librarians from New York City schools will have the opportunity to learn about IWitness at their 2017 annual fall conference on November 14.
iwitness / Friday, November 10, 2017
The 2018 IWitness Video Challenge, created by USC Shoah Foundation in partnership with Discovery Education, provides an actionable way to promote equality, challenge bias, discuss tolerance, and engage students in a service-learning project that inspires action.
iivc, iwitness, iwitness video challenge / Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Among the student leaders from across the country who attended USC Shoah Foundation’s inaugural Intercollegiate Diversity Congress (IDC) Summit in October were two representatives from USC itself. One was Kara Watkins-Chow, who came away from the summit with new ideas and insight to take back to her role as president of the Queer & Ally Student Association.
/ Wednesday, November 15, 2017
British liberator Hugh Stewart describes how survivors were triaged upon liberation so that the most critical patients could get care. He also discusses the possibility that civilians knew what was really going on inside.
clip / Wednesday, November 15, 2017
The broadcast will go live on USC Shoah Foundation’s Facebook page on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. At that time, the Junior Interns will have a chance to ask Lebovics questions about her message. Viewers will also have the opportunity to ask Lebovics questions in the comments on the Facebook post.
junior interns, Paula Lebovics / Thursday, November 16, 2017
Alexander Hinton discussed his new book Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer. In his book, Professor Hinton uses creative ethnographic writing, extensive fieldwork, hundreds of interviews, and his experience attending Duch's trial to create a nuanced analysis of Duch, the tribunal, the Khmer Rouge, and the after-effects of Cambodia's genocide.
presentation, lecture, discussion, cagr, Cambodian Genocide, khmer rouge / Thursday, November 16, 2017
Five members of the educational nonprofit started working with USC Shoah Foundation education staff last week to develop resources in IWitness for Panamanian students and teachers.
iwitness, panama / Friday, November 17, 2017
Harry Fischer, a Jewish refugee from Germany, recalls how his family obtained permission to stay in Rio Abajo, Panama, and how they adjusted to the tropical climate.
clip / Friday, November 17, 2017
von Frijtag questioned commonly-held perceptions about relations between Dutch Jews and gentiles during the Holocaust during her tenure as USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s 2017-2018 Center Fellow.
cagr, center fellow, netherlands / Monday, November 20, 2017
This particular panel focused on NDT and its impact on the future of testimony at a time when fewer and fewer storytellers remain.
New Dimensions in Testimony, cagr / Tuesday, November 21, 2017
The announcement of a deal between Myanmar and Bangladesh which will allow the repatriation of the Rohingya may sound like good news. Here is why it is not.
Rohingya, op-eds / Saturday, November 25, 2017