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Kerry Washington was the special guest at the 2016 Ambassadors for Humanity gala honoring Mellody Hobson and George Lucas.
/ Wednesday, January 11, 2017
USC President C. L. Max Nikias speaking at the 2016 Ambassadors for Humanity gala honoring Mellody Hobson and George Lucas.
/ Wednesday, January 11, 2017
USC Shoah Foundation executive director Stephen Smith speaking at the 2016 Ambassadors for Humanity gala honoring Mellody Hobson and George Lucas. Also speaking are Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter and Chicago-area students Lynette Lucero and Joshua Stone who both participate in After School Matters
/ Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Steven Spielberg, founder of USC Shoah Foundation, introducing the 2016 Ambassador for Humanity award honorees Mellody Hobson and George Lucas.
/ Wednesday, January 11, 2017
George Lucas accepting his Ambassador for Humanity award at the 2016 gala held in Los Angeles.
/ Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Mellody Hobson's acceptance speech at the 2016 Ambassadors for Humanity gala, held in Los Angeles on December 8, 2016.
/ Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Max Schindler remembers the German occupation of Poland and his family’s decision to return to their grandmother’s small village to evade the Nazis. He recalls how even though there were anti-Jewish measures including expulsion from school, his family’s Jewish owned store still operated in the small town. Just weeks before the Nazis issued an edict forcing all Jews into a ghetto, Max celebrated his bar mitzvah.
clip / Thursday, January 19, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Margaret Lambert describes how she experienced hate as a consequence of stories that turned people against Jews and broke human connections.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, January 20, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Researchers have studied hate in order to deepen their understanding of how people develop the emotions and actions associated with hate. Learn more about their findings by watching the video, "What is Hate?"
100 days to inspire respect / Friday, January 20, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Ursula describes an incident at a hospital social function that was typical of the xenophobia she experienced as a refugee in the UK.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Monday, January 23, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Rwandan Tutsi Genocide survivor Freddy Mutanguha describes the hate Tutsi children experienced at his school at the hands of fellow students - both verbal taunts and physical attacks.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Tuesday, January 24, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
In this clip Holocaust survivor Peter Prager describes an example of how he and his Jewish classmates were made to feel inferior, or less than his non-Jewish classmates.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Wednesday, January 25, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Floyd reflects on how his experiences as a Holocaust liberator shaped his views on hate.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Thursday, January 26, 2017
On Thursday, January 19, 2017, after a screening of Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will at USC School of Cinematic Arts, Dr. Wolf Gruner, Center of Advanced Genocide Research Director and Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies, joined a panel with Dr. Michael Renov, Haskell Wexler Endowed Chair in Documentary, Professor of Cinema & Media Studies and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and Dr. Steven Ross, Professor of History and Director of the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life.
presentation, discussion, panel, wolf gruner / Thursday, January 26, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Victor Borge, an actor in Denmark in 1939, talks about experiencing hate at the hands of Nazis and the press. He shares how he was threatened with violence and described as repulsive.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, January 27, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Learn about how students had an impact on their communities after finding inspiration and insight from the testimonies in IWitness.
100 days to inspire respect / Friday, January 27, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Paula, who was born in America, remembers her first encounter with antisemitism.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, January 27, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Wellesina discusses being targeted by the Ku Klux Klan while living with her black adopted daughter in Rialto, California.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Monday, January 30, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Armenian Genocide survivor Elise Taft reads from the preface of her book about why she decided to tell her story.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Tuesday, January 31, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
American World War II veteran and Buchenwald liberator Leon Bass shares some of his experiences with racism after he returned home from war.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Drawing from testimonies of survivors from not only the Holocaust, but also genocides that occurred in Rwanda, China, Armenia and Guatemala, 100 Days to Inspire Respect will also include activities on xenophobia, multiple perspectives, and the “othering” of certain groups, among other themes.
/ Thursday, February 2, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Jack, who aided the war crimes prosecution of Nazi physician Karl Brandt, reflects on the origins of the Nazis' racist pseudoscience.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Thursday, February 2, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Hersch Altman, who survived the Holocaust, says that we need to learn from the past so that we can avoid repeating it. In learning about his story, he hopes that students can avoid racism and bigotry in the future and help avoid events like the Holocaust.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, February 3, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Elizabeth remembers the challenging decision she had to make upon arriving in the American South to aid the Civil Rights Movement.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, February 3, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Katsugo, a soldier in the American army during World War II, recalls his experience of visiting a Japanese relocation camp in Arkansas, United States.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, February 3, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Phansy details how she was affected by losing both her parents and children during the Cambodian Genocide.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Monday, February 6, 2017
2016 IWitness Video Challenge winning video "Community of Poetry," by Allison Vandal, Caroline Waters and Maya Montell.
iwvc, iwitness video challenge / Tuesday, February 7, 2017
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Simone Maria Liebster survived religious persecution as a Jehovah's Witness during WWII under the Nazi regime. She describes how she stood up for her beliefs despite intense opposition.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Tuesday, February 7, 2017