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La Fundación Shoah USC– El Instituto para la Historia Visual y Educación une fuerzas con La Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala (FAFG), una organización forense guatemalteca, para recopilar videos con testimonios de los sobrevivientes y testigos del Genocidio Guatemalteco, en el cual murieron cerca de 200.000 civiles, principalmente indígenas maya, a principios de la década de 1980 a manos de una junta militar cual líder fue declarado culpable de genocidio y crímenes de guerra en mayo de 2013.
/ Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Guatemalan survivor Jesús Tecú speaks about his parents going into town to take care of business in 1982, and never returning home. He later discovered that they were killed that day during the massacre Río Negro.
clip, male, Guatemalan Genocide, Jesús Tecú, massacre / Tuesday, July 28, 2015
A social anthropologist, Sandra Gruner-Domic, PhD, is the research expert on the Guatemalan Testimony Collection at USC Shoah Foundation. She is an experienced lecturer in sociology and gender studies at California State Long Beach University and USC. Her research interests are migration and gender, violence, displacement and genocide. Additionally she has researched, taught and published works on migration, race and ethnic relations, process of representation and identity in transnational context, global citizenship u.a.
/ Tuesday, July 28, 2015
During the 1960s, the Guatemalan government unleashed a war against various small guerilla groups across the country. This so-called “internal conflict” turned into a 36-year genocide against Mayan populations.
Guatemala, GAM, cagr, op-eds, cagr / Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Armenian Apostolic Church of Crescenta Valley, Prelacy “Dikran and Zarouhie Der Ghazarian” Hall 6250 Honolulu Ave, La Crescenta, CA 91214
/ Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Robert Wagemann remembers being a physically handicapped child during World War II. Doctors often preferred euthanizing children with physical disabilities rather than keep them alive. Robert describes how his mother helped him escaped a facility, saving his life.
clip, video, robert wagemann, disabled persons, discrimination / Thursday, July 30, 2015
USC Shoah Foundation Senior Education Specialist and Trainer Lesly Culp will lead the first session of a two-part webinar on Echoes and Reflection Wednesday, August 5; educators can sign up here.
webinar, echoes and reflections, iwitness / Thursday, July 30, 2015
A Rwanda Tutsi Genocide survivor and a Holocaust survivor each describe experiences they had with sterotyping.
clip, Rose Burizihiza, Lea Schabinski-Faranhof, sterotypes, discrimination / Friday, July 31, 2015
Two USC Shoah Foundation staff members gave a presentation to 120 high school students from all over the world who are in Rwanda for the three-week WiSci Girls STEAM Camp.
rwanda, iwitness / Friday, July 31, 2015
Director Walter Manoschek, Professor of Political Science, University of Vienna, explores the story of Adolf Storms, a young SS officer who was suspected to have participated in the murder of 57 Jewish slave laborers in the small Austrian town of Deutsch Schützen in March,1945.
cagr / Monday, August 3, 2015
Holocaust survivor Suzanne Gross remembers when she had to wear the Yellow Star of David for the first time and the anti-Semitism that followed in 1942 France.
clip, jewish survivor, Suzanne Gross, female, france, discrimination, antiSemitism / Monday, August 3, 2015
In light of the deplorable anti-Semitic incident at Ohio State University, and other campuses in recent months, USC Shoah Foundation is working to develop programs that will combat the troubling rise in anti-Semitism at colleges across the United States.
anti-semitism, joel citron, board of councilors, antiSemitism / Monday, August 3, 2015
Sam Kadorian remembers the separation and killings of Armenian families during the 1915 genocide.
clip, Armenian Genocide, Sam Kadorian, deporation, killings / Wednesday, August 5, 2015
The Czech project Ours or Foreign? Jews in the Czech 20th Century delivered materials and training to 600 educators in the last fiscal year and added a new unit on the Terezín family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau featuring testimony clips from the Visual History Archive.
ours or foreign, Czechoslovakia, czech, Czech Republic, Martin Smok, Jewish Museum, Prague, terezin / Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt talks about her arrival at Auschwitz from Terezín. She and the rest of the transport were treated differently from other prisoners; they did not have their heads shaved and they were given civilian clothes.
/ Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Testimony from the Visual History Archive is being used as evidence to posthumously bestow Sister Louise the highest honor in the world for Holocaust rescuers, the title of Righteous Among the Nations from Yad Vashem.
testimony, france, yad vashem, righteous among the nations / Thursday, August 6, 2015
Jewish survivor Henri Weinzweig describes his three and a half years at a Catholic convent and orphanage in Levignac, France. The sisters allowed him to live there to protect him from the Nazis.
/ Thursday, August 6, 2015
Martin Becker fled Nazi Germany and immigrated to the United States where he later joined the Armed Forces. He speaks on his deployment to Japan including being stationed in Hiroshima only two weeks after US dropped the atomic bomb in August 1945.
clip, video, military invasion, atmoic bomb, hiroshima, Martin Becker, jewish survivor, liberator / Friday, August 7, 2015
Five staff members gathered for a special event to celebrate the conclusion of their year-and-a-half long project to index the Institute's new collection from Jewish Family and Children's Services (JFCS) of San Francisco.
JFCS, visual history archive, scott spencer / Monday, August 10, 2015
Estelle Laughlin describes the influence of Dr. Janusz Korczak the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, a doctor, writer and educator who established a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw. Rather than accept offers of asylum for himself he died with his orphans at Treblinka.
clip, female, jewish survivor, estelle laughlin, Janusz Korczak, aid giver / Monday, August 10, 2015
Los Angeles, Aug. 10, 2015 – USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, in collaboration with the USC Thornton School of Music, will be hosting scholars from around the world for two days of programming on Oct. 10 - 11 to highlight the use of music as a tool to resist oppression and spread awareness.
résistance, music, conference genocide, holocaust / Monday, August 10, 2015
Dachau camp liberator Barton Nagata talks about his exposure to racism in the segregated South of the United States.
clip, male, liberator, segregation, discrimination, civil rights, Barton Nagata / Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Just in time for the new school year, the IWitness Activity Library has been completely redesigned in order to provide a better experience for educators.
iwitness, IWitness activity / Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Holocaust survivor George Brent was a violin prodigy as a child, but he thought his career was over when he endured physical torture during the Holocaust and injured his wrist. Years later, he was invited to perform in a concert with famed entertainer Maurice Chevalier, who gave him some much-needed encouragement onstage.
/ Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Time and again, we at USC Shoah Foundation witness how young people strive to make a difference. From middle school students to college graduates, we’ve had the pleasure to work with people inspired by testimony in the Visual History Archive. These young people are creating change and developing plans to improve their own communities.
Youth Day, op-eds / Wednesday, August 12, 2015
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, in collaboration with the USC Thornton School of Music, will be hosting scholars from around the world for two days of programming on Oct. 10 - 11 to highlight the use of music as a tool to resist oppression and spread awareness.
cagr, musical performance, wolf gruner / Wednesday, August 12, 2015
The psychological focus of the testimonies in the Institute's new collection from Jewish Family and Children's Services (JFCS) of San Francisco meant that a new set of indexing terms had to be researched and developed.
JFCS, indexing, Crispin Brooks, glenn fox / Thursday, August 13, 2015
Helen describes her experiences as a laborer in Menden, Germany. She escaped scrutiny for being Jewish by lying to authorities about her ethnic background. She describes the immense fear that came throughout these experiences, always worrying about Nazi officers incriminating her.
/ Thursday, August 13, 2015
With the 2015 Ambassadors for Humanity Gala in Detroit just a month away, local students experienced IWitness in their own backyard, at the Henry Ford Museum.
iwitness, detroit, ambassadors for humanity / Friday, August 14, 2015