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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
/ 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
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
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
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
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
100 Days to Inspire Respect Sulia describes Tuvia Bielski, the oldest brother and leader of the partisans, and the leadership qualities he possessed.
clip, 100 days to inspire respect / Friday, April 28, 2017
Ela Weissberger describes performing in "Brundibár," a children's opera composed by Hans Krása, at Terezin with other camp prisoners, and sings her part.
clip / Monday, May 1, 2017
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center shares its New Dimensions in Testimony exhibit, featuring the new testimony of Fritzie Fritzshall.
/ Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Stefan Kosinski recounts the torture he underwent in jail at the hands of Nazis intent on extracting a confession that he was homosexual.
/ Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Marisa Fox-Bevilacqua discovers her mother's hidden Holocaust history as a survivor of the Trutnov concentration camp system in current-day Czech Republic.
/ Thursday, May 4, 2017
Clip from the documentary "By a Thread," in which Marisa Fox-Bevilacqua discovers her mother's hidden Holocaust history as a survivor of the Trutnov concentration camp system in current-day Czech Republic.
/ Thursday, May 4, 2017
Eva speaks about the 1956 Revolution in Hungary.
clip / Thursday, May 4, 2017
Jewish survivor Renzo Servi describes how famed cyclist Gino Bartali told him and his family that San Sepolcro, and their shop there, had been attacked.
clip / Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Jewish survivor Enrico Maionica explains how he made false documents that saved the lives of Jews all over Italy, and were smuggled throughout the country by famed cyclist Gino Bartali.
clip / Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Charles remembers a favorite art teacher of his. The teacher was Jewish and Charles was upset when someone made an antisemitic remark about him.
clip / Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Omer Bartov gave a lecture on May 8, 2017, on how the East Galician town of Buczacz was transformed from a site of coexistence, where Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews had lived side-by-side for centuries, into a site of genocide. What were the reasons for this instance of communal violence, what were its dynamics, and why has it been erased from the local memory? Professor Bartov is the 2017 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar at USC Center for Advanced Genocide Research.
presentation, lecture, cagr, omer bartov / Thursday, May 11, 2017
Salpi Ghazarian Director of the Institute of Armenian Studies University of Southern California
/ Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Manuel Pastor, PhD Professor, Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity Director, USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) Director, USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII) University of Southern California
/ Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Steven Lamy, PhD Professor of International Relations USC Dornsife Vice Dean for Academic Programs University of Southern California
/ Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Varun Soni, JD, PhD Dean of Religious Life University of Southern California Dr. Soni reflects on the topic of empathy from his perspective as Dean of Religious life at the University of Southern California and his work in the fields of religious studies and law. From this interdisciplinary point of view, Dr. Soni bases his reflection on a clip of testimony by Floyd Dade, a liberator during the Holocaust, who tells of the impact liberating a concentration camp had on him.
/ Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Allison Trope, PhD Clinical Professor of Communication Director of the Critical Media Project Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism University of Southern California
/ Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Peter Mancall, PhD Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities Linda and Harlan Martens Director of the Early Modern Studies Institute Professor of History and Anthropology University of Southern California
/ Tuesday, May 16, 2017
U.S. liberator Walter Mason reminisces on his efforts to liberate the prisoners of Buchenwald concentration camp. Although they were warned about the conditions of the camp, he discusses that there was no way of being prepared for what they saw that day.
clip, homepage / Thursday, April 15, 2021
Jewish survivor Kathy Fuchs describes how her family celebrated her favorite holiday, Shavuot.
homepage / Thursday, May 28, 2020
Homosexual survivor Stefan Kosinski describes his budding romance with a young German soldier, which was taboo at the time because Stefan was Polish. The soldier was kind and generous toward Stefan.
clip / Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Holocaust survivor Miriam Brysk describes the discrimination she experienced as a woman in college and in her post-doctorate work.
clip / Friday, June 2, 2017

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