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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
First-person testimonial of the Holocaust, co-created by United Nations senior creative advisor Gabo Arora and produced by executive director of USC Shoah Foundation, Stephen Smith, is an official selection of festival’s Tribeca Immersive, in Storyscapes, presented by AT&T, April 21-29, 2017.
/ Friday, March 10, 2017
Virtual reality lab LightShed, in partnership with USC Shoah Foundation, MPC VR, OTOY, Inc., and HERE BE DRAGONS, proudly announce the world premiere of the first-ever Holocaust survivor testimony in room-scale VR, THE LAST GOODBYE, at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by AT&T.
/ Monday, March 13, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Daniel recounts how his male gender led to his Jewish identity being exposed by Nazis while he pretended to be an altar boy at a Catholic orphanage in Belgium.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, March 10, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Alice explains how feminism has positively impacted her life.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, March 10, 2017
Through this set of resources, students learn about the immigrant and refugee experience, including specific definitions for migrant groups, the processes by which newcomers settle into their new home countries and the complex and difficult experience it can be.
100 days to inspire respect / Friday, March 10, 2017
Theary recounts a debate among her family about where to travel next as refugees of the Cambodian Genocide.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Monday, March 13, 2017
During a recent Twitter chat, #IWitnessChat hosted by Discovery Education, teachers shared how they are integrating the IWitness Video Challenge into their classrooms. Explore their insights and tips to help encourage your students to participate in the 2017 IWitness Video Challenge.
iwitness video challenge, iwitness, op-eds / Monday, March 13, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Paul describes how he fled German-occupied Austria for Czechoslovakia. He didn't have a visa and was quickly discovered and forced to leave the country.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Path and co-author Angeliki Andrea Kanavou study how young men plucked from rural Cambodia were turned into obedient arbiters of genocide by the Khmer Rouge regime.
cambodia, Cambodian Genocide, cagr / Tuesday, March 14, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation's free educational website IWitness will host a Social Studies Twitter Chat #SSChat on Monday, April 3, 2017 at 4pm PT/7pm ET. Join @USCIWitness for a discussion on teaching about genocide with survivor and eyewitness testimony for Genocide Awareness Month.
iwitness, #IWitnessChat, education, social studies, social studies chat / Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Though still in its planning stages, the program will aim to humanize the experience of antisemitism by sharing firsthand testimonies of people who have been affected by it.
copenhagen, CATT, anti-semitism, antiSemitism / Wednesday, March 15, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Benjamin Lesser speaks about how his family found a Jewish community in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Jewish survivor Rae Kushner describes when the Soviet Union occupied Poland after World War II, Kushner, along with the few family members that survived the Holocaust, left Poland to look for refuge in any country that would open its doors. Finally, reaching Italy Kushner waited over three years in a displaced persons camp before immigrating to the United States.
/ Thursday, March 16, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Jacques, a witness to the Armenian Genocide, discusses Armenian refugees, including the famous Armenian-American painter Arshile Gorky.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Thursday, March 16, 2017
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research offers fellowships to support USC undergraduate students, graduate students, and USC faculty in conducting summer research using testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and/or other unique USC collections and resources. This event features four of the Center's five Summer 2016 research fellows from a variety of disciplines who will share their research and reflect on the use and value of testimonies in their projects.
cagr / Thursday, March 16, 2017
On January 27, 2017, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Holocaust Memorial Centre in Budapest debuted a new exhibition that draws on the Visual History Archive testimony of survivor Katalin Bárány.
budapest / Thursday, March 16, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Tama describes how she learned English in school after immigrating to the United States.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, March 17, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Theoneste Karenzi recalls his encounter with a family of other Tutsi refugees.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, March 17, 2017
A critical element in countering hate and inspiring respect is an understanding of culture and learning to value cultural differences.
100 days to inspire respect / Friday, March 17, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Aniela recalls singing with her family and performs a melancholy Polish song she remembers from that time.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Monday, March 20, 2017