Ernest begins his testimony by sharing a story about his father that has affected him his whole life.

USC Shoah Foundation’s Junior Interns witnessed a disturbing example of modern antisemitism firsthand during their trip to Budapest in June. And they have something to say about it.

A public lecture by the 2017-2018 Research Week team

Lorena Ávila (Centro Internacional de Toledo para la Paz, Colombia)
Daniela Gleizer (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México)
Emmanuel Kahan (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
Nancy Nichols (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
Yael Siman (Universidad Iberoamericana, México)
Susana Sosenski (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México)
Alejandra Morales Stekel (Director, Interactive Jewish Museum of Chile, Chile)

A public lecture by Christian Delage (Director of the Institut D’Histoire Du Temps Présent, Paris)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The need for continued memorialization of the fate of the Roma and Sinti population of Europe has never been more important.

Roma and Sinti survivor Ella Davis describes how she was punished for getting caught stealing potatoes at Auschwitz.

What are the pillars of modern democracy and how can democracy be defended in days of crisis?

These questions keep coming to me these days, when Poland faces a really serious crisis that so far has caused a huge polarization in Polish society that divides neighbors, colleagues, friends, even families.

Being an educator for almost 30 years, teaching first young students, then teenagers and finally teachers about history, civil rights and human rights, I have realized what a huge setback the Polish educational system has suffered.

Gerson Adler recalls the Stürmer newspaper issued by the Nazi party that promulgated antisemitic stereotypes.

In this clip, Henry Sinason, a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, recalls how widespread Nazi antisemitic propaganda was all over the city where he lived.

Educators learned how Holocaust survivor testimonies from the Visual History Archive can help them teach early conflict prevention and cultural sensitivity at a workshop led by USC Shoah Foundation’s Ukrainian regional consultant, Anna Lenchovska.