Teachers will learn about teaching with testimony and develop their own lesson plans July 2-7, 2017, in Budapest.
master teacher, poland, Teaching with Testimony, Monika Koszynska / Thursday, March 23, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Ezechiel explains how his Christian teachings inspired a small group of Tutsis and Hutus to coexist.
100 days to inspire respect, clip / Friday, March 24, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Clem describes his friendships from growing up in Libya.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, March 24, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Julia remembers her family's prewar life as nomadic Roma in Germany.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, March 24, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect After escaping the ghetto in Lwów, Poland in the early 1940s, Lilit—at the time barely even a teenager—encountered a dangerous militiamen who recognized her. She was saved only by her own quick thinking.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, March 24, 2017
Throughout the week, students and their instructors will learn about courage under the context of different values and individual agency.
100 days to inspire respect / Friday, March 24, 2017
USC undergraduates, graduate students and faculty as well as faculty from other universities are encouraged to apply.
cagr / Monday, March 27, 2017
The one-day training will introduce Detroit area educators to IWitness and strategies for using testimony in the classroom, including how to integrate testimony across the curriculum and how to create testimony-curriculum plans for their individual classrooms.
iwitness, detroit / Tuesday, March 28, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect David and Sidney are Jewish and were born in Poland. They describe the prejudice and violence they experienced during the 1930s in Poland.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Tuesday, March 28, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation on Monday Mar. 27 and on Friday Mar. 31 celebrated the completion of a years-long endeavor to integrate hundreds of testimonies from the Armenian Genocide into the Visual History Archive.
Armenian Genocide Testimony Collection, armenian film foundation / Tuesday, March 28, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Rita Kuhn shares her personal memory of the Rosenstrasse Demonstrations.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Educators share how they teach with eyewitness testimony for April's Genocide Awareness Month.
iwitness, GAM, teaching, op-eds / Friday, March 31, 2017
The group visiting the Institute’s office on Tuesday were students in Robert Hernandez’ digital journalism class at USC.
New Dimensions in Testimony / Wednesday, March 29, 2017
In this lecture, presented on March 7, 2017, Schatte touches on issues such as the relationship between the second and third generations of East German Jews, scholarly and community debates about contemporary and East German Jewish identity, Holocaust memory, and the effects of trauma and exile across generations.
presentation, greenberg fellow, Berlin / Thursday, March 30, 2017
This video introduces students to the definition of "refugee" and the experiences of refugees of the 20th century to today.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Thursday, March 30, 2017
Before Finding Oscar is released in theaters across the country on April 21, USC Shoah Foundation will host three free screenings and Q&As with the filmmakers and representatives from the Guatemalan community.
finding oscar / Thursday, March 30, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Ludmila Page and Frieda Stieglitz describe instances in which spontaneous prayers sprung from moments of crisis in the Holocaust.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Thursday, March 30, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Xiulan describes the night her parents were killed during the Nanjing Massacre. Her grandfather saved her and several others.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Thursday, March 30, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect Sonia Bielski describes how the man who helped her escape from the ghetto touched her inappropriately one night.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Thursday, March 30, 2017
Entering its eleventh week of operation, USC Shoah Foundation’s 100 Days to Inspire Respect campaign will take some time to focus on violence and extremism.
100 days to inspire respect / Friday, March 31, 2017
Gaelle Elalam’s professional interests don’t necessarily intersect with her work at USC Shoah Foundation, but that work is just as impactful. The wannabe engineer has been a Junior Intern for the Institute since 2015, spending one day out of the month engrossed in analyzing what attitudes breed hatred and intolerance, how you can spread positive moral authority and how you can become an active participant in civil society.
/ Thursday, March 16, 2017
Since October, once a month, every month, a group of grade school students have met either virtually or physically at the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education’s home at USC’s Leavey Library. These students are USC Shoah Foundation’s newest crop of Junior Interns, there to study what attitudes breed hatred and intolerance, how they can spread positive moral authority and be an active participant in civil society using the weight of testimony from the Visual History Archive.
/ Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Within an hour of learning about IWitness for the first time, Julie McDaniel could already envision how its testimonies and activities could enhance her work as Student Safety and Well-Being Consultant at the Oakland Schools district in Michigan.
/ Friday, March 24, 2017
They started in October – making the trip to USC Shoah Foundation’s home at USC’s Leavey Library once a month, every month to meet, either virtually or physically, and study what attitudes breed hatred and intolerance, how they can spread positive moral authority and how to use the weight of testimony from the Visual History Archive to become active participants in civil society.
/ Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Born in Bolivia, educated in Germany and now residing in Los Angeles, Sandra Gruner-Domic brings her expertise in Latin American migration and social anthropology to her role as one of the guiding forces of USC Shoah Foundation’s Guatemalan Genocide testimony collection.
/ Thursday, March 30, 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

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