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Claudia Wiedeman

What is Home? Commemorating Yom HaShoah

Born in the City that Became Auschwitz Exhibit Translated into 10 Languages and Counting

USC Shoah Foundation’s online exhibit Born in the City that Became Auschwitz is now available in French, Italian, Russian, Slovak, Hungarian, Spanish, Arabic, Polish and Czech. All versions are available here on the USC Shoah Foundation website.

What is Home: Commemorating the Genocide Against the Tutsi

USC Shoah Foundation and Liberation75 partner with Mike Myers on “Stories are Stronger than Hate: A Call to Action” Student Program

Liberation75 and USC Shoah Foundation partnered on a virtual student program, “Stories are Stronger than Hate: A Call to Action,” hosted by actor/director Mike Myers, with special guest Akim Aliu, Co-founder of Hockey Diversity Alliance, on Monday June 22.

Through the personal narrative of Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter and other stories, participants explored how stories create the possibility to learn about ourselves, about others and about how we can affect the change we want to see in our communities right now.

25 Years Later: The Srebrenica Genocide

Monday, 20 July 2020 at 11:00 AM PDT | 12:00 PM MDT | 2:00 PM EDT | | 8:00 PM CEST |4:00 AM AEST (Tuesday, 21 July)

In the twenty-five years since genocide took place in the Bosnian city of Srebrenica, several projects have been initiated to document survivors’ experiences, including a more recent collaboration between the Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial Center and the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo.

Museums, Memorials, and Memorializations after Atrocity - A Form of Ongoing Justice?

Start Time: 8:00 am PDT/11:00 am EDT/4:00 pm GMT
End Time: 9:30 am PDT/12:30 pm EDT/5:30 pm GMT 
 
As part of the UN’s new online discussion series “Beyond the Long Shadow: Engaging with Difficult Histories”, join Institute Finci-Viterbi Executive Director Stephen Smith and a panel of experts as they explore the topic of memorialization after atrocity on 8 July, 8:00 am PDT/11:00 am EDT/4:00 pm GMT

Preserving Memory in Russian: The Life and Work of Ilia Salita

This week, we pay tribute to the life and work of Ilia Salita, a key partner and friend to the Institute of many years.

Denial and Triumphalism: Origins, Impact and Prevention

Join Institute Finci-Viterbi Executive Director Stephen Smith and 30 leading experts in an interdisciplinary conference with a focus on memory, denial, prevention, and accountability as they relate to the genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Comic Con - “Art and the Holocaust”

Art and the Holocaust will present a sampling of artwork and propaganda done during World War II in the U.S. and Nazi Germany, and work done by a child survivor of the Holocaust after the war. Moderated by Stephen D.