USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education will support the Six Million Coins™ fundraising initiative, launched by Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries and the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles to provide for Holocaust survivors in need of basic necessities.
/ Wednesday, March 6, 2013
What can the Institute’s Visual History Archive teach us about other mediations of the Holocaust: how survivors tell their stories, how life performance and other media shape their narratives, or even how humor figures into remembrance?
Jeffrey Schandler, rutgers, Senior Fellow / Tuesday, March 5, 2013
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), in cooperation with USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education, hosted the 12th Southern California Teacher Forum on Holocaust Education, “Teaching about the Holocaust,” at the University of Southern California.  Approximately 90 educators from the greater Los Angeles area attended the three-day program.
iwitness, kori street, education, ushmm, Peter Feigl / Monday, March 4, 2013
On February 11, Dr. Howard Gardner, best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, engaged in a public conversation on the art science of 21st-century education with Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, an award-winning behavioral and social scientist and faculty member at the University of Southern California.
howard gardner, lecture, presentation / Thursday, February 28, 2013
February 11, 2013: Dr. Howard Gardner, best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, engaged in a public conversation on the art science of 21st-century education with Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, an award-winning behavioral and social scientist and faculty member at the University of Southern California.
howard gardner, presentation, lecture / Monday, May 20, 2013
event / Monday, May 20, 2013
Contest challenges secondary school students to honor the legacy of Schindler’s List by engaging in community service inspired by survivors’ testimonies and showcasing their action in an IWitness video essay
iwitness, Steven Spielberg, Stephen Smith, education / Wednesday, February 27, 2013
iwitness, spielberg, promo / Monday, May 20, 2013
Three professional-development videos for secondary-school teachers are now available on the Institute’s website. The videos, which average 25 minutes in length, delve into the theory and practice of using testimony for education and digital tools such as IWitness.
education, professional development / Monday, February 25, 2013
Professors Holly Willis and Steve Anderson of USC’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy lead a discussion with educators about considerations for making “ethical” editorial decision when developing videos that use eyewitness testimony.
education, professional development / Monday, May 20, 2013
In this video, USC Shoah Foundation’s Executive Director Stephen Smith examines the nature and complexity of memory and testimony through the narrative of Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter.
education, professional development / Monday, May 20, 2013
This video explores the connection between Constructivist Theory and the principles of teaching with testimony.  It also highlights how testimony encourages active learning, which allows for students to incorporate new information in order to change or reorganize their preexisting thoughts and beliefs.
education, professional development / Monday, May 20, 2013
professional development, education / Monday, May 20, 2013
On February 2, we commemorated the 70th anniversary of the decisive WWII Battle of Stalingrad. That battle changed the course of the war, leading to the final victory over Nazi Germany. As many as two million lives may have been lost at Stalingrad. We invite you to watch edited and subtitled clips from testimonies of three Red Army veterans who participated in the frontline fighting. The Visual History Archive of USC Shoah Foundation contains interviews with hundreds of Allied liberators and Jewish war veterans from all fronts of WWII.
stalingrad, clip reel, clip, subtitled / Monday, February 11, 2013
stalingrad, clip reel, clip / Monday, May 20, 2013
stalingrad, clip reel, clip / Monday, May 20, 2013
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2 февраля мы отметили 70-летие решающей битвы Второй мировой войны под Сталинградом. Эта битва изменила ход войны, что привело к окончательной победе над нацистской Германией. Около двух миллионов жизней было потеряно под Сталинградом. Вашему вниманию предлагаютя отредактированные клипы из видеоинтервью трех ветеранов Красной Армии, участвовавших в боевых действиях фронта.
stalingrad / Monday, May 20, 2013
The weekend before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, experts from Yad Vashem, the Department for Education and Culture of the Jewish Museum in Prague, the Terezin Memorial, and USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education held training seminars for teachers in the Czech Republic. The Institute presented its Czech-language educational resources, which are based on the testimony of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses; the seminars reached teachers in the cities of Karlovy Vary, Ostrov nad Ohří and Plzeň.
czech, training, education, international, yad vashem / Friday, February 1, 2013
USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director, Stephen Smith along with guest speakers, Kim Feinberg, USC Shoah Foundation Regional Consultant in South Africa and Founder and CEO of the Tomorrow Trust, and Freddy Mutanguha, Director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda, address the importance of using testimony in education from a global perspective.
professional development, mtw, education / Tuesday, May 21, 2013
USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director, Stephen Smith along with guest speakers, Kim Feinberg, USC Shoah Foundation Regional Consultant in South Africa and Founder and CEO of the Tomorrow Trust, and Freddy Mutanguha, Director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda, address the importance of using testimony in education from a global perspective.
education, mtw, professional development, keynote / Tuesday, May 21, 2013
rasismus, lesson / Wednesday, May 22, 2013
rasismus, lesson / Wednesday, May 22, 2013
/ Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Zuzana Růžičková se narodila roku 1927 v Plzni. Po absolutoriu tamního gymnázia byla odvlečena do ghetta Terezín, odkud byla dále deportována do tábora smrti v Osvětimi - Birkenau. Osvobozena byla v koncentračním táboře Bergen - Belsen. Po válce vystudovala hru na klavír a cembalo, a stala se světově uznávanou interpretkou a profesorkou hudby.
full, testimony, female, jewish survivor, terezin, bergen belsen / Thursday, May 23, 2013
Zuzana Růžičková vzpomíná na poválečný návrat z koncentračních táborů domů, do Plzně. Zuzana Růžičková se narodila roku 1927 v Plzni. Po absolutoriu tamního gymnázia byla odvlečena do ghetta Terezín, odkud byla dále deportována do tábora smrti v Osvětimi - Birkenau. Osvobozena byla v koncentračním táboře Bergen - Belsen. Po válce vystudovala hru na klavír a cembalo, a stala se světově uznávanou interpretkou a profesorkou hudby.
clip, czech portal clip, female, jewish survivor / Thursday, May 23, 2013
Produced by James Moll, Broken Silence consists of five foreign-language films featuring testimonies from Argentina, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Russia and directed by distinguished filmmakers from each of these countries. The documentaries are unique in scope and construction: incorporating archival and modern-day footage, still photographs, original music, and drawing from the Institute’s testimonies.
documentary, trailer / Thursday, May 23, 2013
Directed by James Moll and produced by June Beallor, The Academy Award®-winning The Last Days gives the personal accounts of five Hungarian Holocaust survivors, along with those of liberators, historians, and other eyewitnesses, to provide insight into the events of 1944 in Hungary and to address the themes of family, morality, forgiveness, tolerance, and rebuilding a life after the war. Order the video on Amazon
documentary, trailer / Thursday, May 23, 2013

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