100 Days to Inspire Respect Genaro explains how his resilience has made it possible for his six children to live good lives.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Monday, April 17, 2017
“Hate starts with fear of others.” “Be informed. Don’t judge. Learn love.” “Remove appearance. We’re all the same.” Ninth graders in Sara Mehltretter’s world cultures and geography class at Tampa Catholic High School in Tampa, Fla., wrote these six-word stories and many others, and shared them with not only each other but also their whole school.
/ Monday, April 17, 2017
All of USC Shoah Foundation’s educational resources about the Armenian Genocide can now be found in a new one-stop shop on the IWitness website that launched today, one week before the 102nd anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
Armenian Genocide, iwitness, iwitness armenia / Monday, April 17, 2017
100 Days ot Inspire Respect Armenian Genocide survivor Samuel Kadorian talks about the nightmares he used to have regularly about the horrors he witnessed during the genocide.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Starting Thursday, Tribeca Film Festival attendees will be able to walk alongside Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter as he tours the concentration camp where his parents and sister lost their lives during World War II.
VR, virtual reality / Tuesday, April 18, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Israel shows photos and shares memories of his brother Yulek.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Now in its fourth year, the Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellowship is awarded to one advanced standing Ph.D. candidate each year who will use the Visual History Archive as a key component of their dissertation research.
cagr, greenberg fellow / Wednesday, April 19, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Marcel Rutagarama recounts his travails unearthing and eating unpeeled cassava with his teeth after losing use of his arms.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Thursday, April 20, 2017
/ Thursday, April 20, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith will be the keynote speaker at Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JFCS) Holocaust Center’s annual Yom HaShoah commemoration on Sunday, April 23, in San Francisco.
JFCS, Stephen Smith / Thursday, April 20, 2017
When students learn about refugees in IWitness, it will be Tomás Rafa’s documentary video footage of the current-day refugee crisis in Europe that will help them make connections between refugees of the past and present.
/ Thursday, April 20, 2017
Join DEFY Student Organization for an event in honor of Genocide Awareness Month -- a panel discussion with genocide survivors. Guests will include Holocaust survivor Zenon Neumark and Guatemalan genocide survivor Aracely Garrido.  Discussion begins at 6:00 PM and will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.  Refreshments will be served.  Please RSVP to cagr@usc.edu.
cagr / Friday, April 21, 2017
For the final week of “100 Days to Inspire Respect,” students will reflect on how they can turn what they’ve learned into positive action in their communities.
100 days to inspire respect / Friday, April 21, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect When Philip was 12, he and his family constructed a hiding place to avoid Nazi capture in their hometown of Izbica, Poland. One day, Philip left to gather water for his ailing mother—only to discover a genocide massacre, or "pogrom," was taking place in Izbica.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, April 21, 2017
Holocaust survivor Mira Shelub shares a message of hope for future generations.
/ Friday, April 21, 2017
Holocaust survivor Tauba Weiss shares her frustration with losing her family and the more general loss of the Holocaust, while also being thankful for being able to share her testimony with Jewish Family and Children's Services.
/ Friday, April 21, 2017
At this time of remembrance, I hope I am incorrect in thinking that public awareness of the Shoah is eroding. Information about this act of atrocity is still proliferating, so unawareness clearly cannot be attributed to absent knowledge. There is, in fact, an incredible amount of knowledge … and a growing reluctance to understand it.
yom hashoah, Stephen Smith, op-eds / Friday, April 21, 2017
Since October, Evy Stumpff has been an unconventional Junior Intern with USC Shoah Foundation. While the rest of the young interns have spent the past several months analyzing, together, what attitudes breed hatred and intolerance and how they can spread positive moral authority and become active participants in civil society – learning from USC Shoah Foundation’s IWitness activities and the Visual History Archive – Stumpff has had to leap over one major obstacle to do the same work.
/ Monday, April 24, 2017
/ Monday, April 24, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Eva explains how quick thinking and determination made it possible for her and her father to save many lives.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Monday, April 24, 2017
Just one month into his four-month tenure as USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s 2016-2017 Center Fellow, Alexander Korb has already made new discoveries about how the Holocaust played out outside Germany from testimony in the Visual History Archive.
cagr, center fellow / Monday, April 24, 2017
In this lecture, Professor Alexander Korb explores the phenomenon of collaboration, drawing from a number of country case studies in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. He argues that we need to include Jewish perspectives in order to understand collaboration, because Jews knew their collaborating neighbors much better than the Germans did.
cagr, presentation, fellow, research fellow / Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Holocaust survivor Zenon Neumark and Guatemalan Genocide survivor Aracely Garrido are set to share their stories of survival and take questions from the audience.
genocide awareness month, defy, cagr / Tuesday, April 25, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Krikor Guerguerian discusses his experience encountering a perpetrator of the Armenian Genocide many years after the end of the genocide.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Wednesday, April 26, 2017
LOS ANGELES – April 26, 2017 – Scant attention has been paid to the key roles women played in the Nuremberg Trials that held Nazi perpetrators to account for their role in the Holocaust. This is the main focus of a dissertation by Diane Amann, associate dean at the University of Georgia School of Law. She will expand on her work in January 2018 when she comes as a fellow to conduct research at USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research at the University of Southern California.
/ Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Over the past few years, USC Shoah Foundation has embarked upon two interactive media projects which have already emerged as groundbreaking endeavors in the field – the “New Dimensions in Testimony” project, and this year’s The Last Goodbye immersive virtual reality experience that has made waves at the Tribeca Film Festival’s Virtual Arcade.
ndt, the last goodbye, Pinchas Gutter / Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Four of USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s summer 2016 research fellows returned to the Institute on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, to share the outcomes of their fellowships and the impact of testimony on their work. All the fellows are studying or teaching at USC and spent at least several weeks in residence at the Center last summer to conduct research in the Visual History Archive.
presentation, cagr / Wednesday, April 5, 2017
The second annual Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies will be Kathryn Brackney, a Ph.D. candidate in history at Yale University.
cagr, bob katz, katz fellow / Thursday, April 27, 2017
For the past semester and a half, Nic Chavez has spent one day out of every month at USC Shoah Foundation’s home at USC’s Leavey Library, discussing with his fellow Junior Interns at the Institute what attitudes breed hatred and intolerance, and how derivatives can be quelled.
/ Thursday, April 27, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Listen to several stories of what took place in the aftermath of the February 2015 attack on the Copenhagen synagogue that was motivated by antisemitism.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Thursday, April 27, 2017

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