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Teach About Kristallnacht Through Testimony

Teach About Kristallnacht Through Testimony. Join us on October 19th at 4PM PDT
  • Bring your lesson to life with personal testimonies from those who lived through Kristallnacht
  • Promote your students' close reading of audiovisual testimony

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Teaching about the Holocaust with English Language Learners

This webinar, led by a facilitator from USC Shoah Foundation, will demonstrate how to powerfully engage English language learners in the study of the Holocaust through audiovisual testimony. Drawing upon resources and content found in Echoes & Reflections and other sources, participants will learn guidelines and instructional strategies that can promote English language learners’ understanding of the Holocaust while also building academic language.

Cultivating Empathy

Too often, as has become glaringly apparent in our current national climate, an emphasis on difference has potential for creating misunderstandings that lead to violence. Developing empathy will help students see others as human--individuals with feelings, beliefs, reasons--regardless of ethnicity, gender, and ideology.

#IWitnessChat - Getting Start with the IWitness Video Challenge

First 10 Activities for "100 Days to Inspire Respect" Initiative

Learn about the 10 educational resources that USC Shoah Foundation will debut for the first 10 days of its "100 Days to Inspire Respect" program, launching January 20.

Armenian Collection Translation Efforts Connect Family and Neighbors

While translating Armenian testimonies given in rare dialects, two families made surprise discoveries about their own family history.

USC Shoah Foundation and Partners Attend Vienna Workshop on Testimony in Education

The foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” (German acronym EVZ) is hosting an international workshop on the use of Holocaust survivor testimonies in education January 9-11.

Increases in Visual History Archive Access Sites, IWitness Users and More in Institute’s Latest Stats Update

USC Shoah Foundation’s latest quarterly stats update shows remarkable gains in its testimony access and academic and educational outreach over the past year.

Center for Advanced Genocide Research to Co-Sponsor Symposium on German-Jewish Activists

Director of USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research Wolf Gruner will moderate a panel at UCLA exploring the historical and cultural contexts of the works of Rabbi Joachim Prinz and composer Kurt Weill right before World War II.

AFH2016 Kerry Washington

Kerry Washington was the special guest at the 2016 Ambassadors for Humanity gala honoring Mellody Hobson and George Lucas.