Jack Warga explains the difficulties he and his father had keeping their memories of the Holocaust alive years later when many people had stopped caring about what happened.
clip / Thursday, June 23, 2016
USC Shoah Foundation's educational platform, IWitness continues hosting free webinars for educators throughout 2016. These webinars aim to provide a more in-depth and interactive approach to learning how to teach with testimony.
IWitness Webinar / Friday, June 24, 2016
The National Holocaust Centre and Museum, founded by USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith and James Smith, will commemorate its 20th anniversary June 26 with a service at Westminster Abbey in London.
/ Friday, June 24, 2016
Ralph Romberg explains how surviving the Holocaust insired him to stand up for all people who are victims of discrimination and prejudice.
clip / Friday, June 24, 2016
Békéscsaba is the birthplace of survivor Gabor Hirsch, who traveled to Poland with USC Shoah Foundation in 2015 for "Auschwitz: The Past is Present."
hungary / Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Gabor Hirsch describes his physical condition when Soviet soldiers liberated him in Auschwitz on January 27, 1945.
clip / Tuesday, June 28, 2016
At its physical core, USC Shoah Foundation is an impressive bank of computers and programs that bring the testimony of genocide survivors to people around the world. It’s a complicated and mysterious process for those who don’t have advanced degrees. But beyond the connections of wires and microchips, there is something far more mysterious and complicated going on: the human connection that takes place between people from different times, different places and different backgrounds when they engage with testimony.
op-eds / Tuesday, June 28, 2016
The USC Shoah Foundation Junior Interns learned about Japanese internment on their second annual field trip.
junior interns, Lesly Culp / Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Holocaust liberator Shiro Takeshita describes being in the Salinas State Assembly Center (Japanese internment camp) and seeing an old man killed by a guard simply for being too close to the camp fence.
clip, homepage / Friday, February 18, 2022
A trio of eighth-graders from New Jersey created a poetry group that has enabled students at their school to express their hardships and appreciation for one another.
iwvc, iwitness, iwitness video challenge, IWitness Video Challenge Winner / Thursday, June 30, 2016
Elie Borowski is overcome with emotion remembering the French army's retreat after the fall of Paris in 1940.
clip / Thursday, June 30, 2016
USC Shoah Foundation released an updated version of the Visual History Archive (VHA) that includes functionality enhancements related to the Institute’s partnership with ProQuest.
visual history archive, proquest / Friday, July 1, 2016
After a unique and inspiring fundraiser for USC Shoah Foundation in New York City last week, two jewelry designers are extending a special sale to benefit USC Shoah Foundation through Thursday, July 7.
advancement / Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Jewish survivor William Good shares his incredible escape story from the Ponary massacre in Lithuania.
clip / Tuesday, July 5, 2016
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In order to properly educate more Czech teachers on how to fully utilize IWitness programs, Senior International Program Consultant and Regional Consultant in the Czech Republic Martin Šmok is holding two teacher training sessions in August.
Czech Republic, czech, Martin Smok, iwitness / Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Highlights from the USC Shoah Foundation Junior Interns' field trip to Manzanar National Historic Site, June 27, 2016.
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Jewish survivor Oskar Lustig reflects on his childhood in Budapest, Hungary.
clip / Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Jewish survivor Donia Blumenfeld Clenman recites her powerful poem titled "Justice," which summarizes her feelings about the Holocaust during what was the 50th anniversary of the war's end.
clip / Thursday, July 7, 2016
USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith will speak and demonstrate New Dimensions in Testimony at the Aspen Jewish Community Center in Colorado.
New Dimensions in Testimony / Friday, July 8, 2016
Agnes explains how the young men she knew who were sent off to forced labor camps made jokes about their situation in order to keep their spirits up.
clip / Friday, July 8, 2016
Jewish survivor Nora Danzig explains her difficult experience at a foster home in England after being sent away on the Kindertransport from Germany at age 9 by her parents, whom she never saw again.
clip / Monday, July 11, 2016
The staff will share their research at Royal Holloway and Birkbeck, University of London, this week.
wolf gruner, cagr, london / Monday, July 11, 2016
I see two pictures of America. One that is open, free, respectful, fun-loving. The other which is divisive, fearful, angry, and violent. These two Americas have much that sets them apart, but they share missing elements, because neither America is integrated, fair, multicultural, embracing, or color-blind. Not in practice anyhow.
civil rights, op-eds / Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Jewish survivor Ruth Reiser remembers her wonderful childhood spent in Prague with her family.
clip / Tuesday, July 12, 2016
After an intensive six-days of learning how to teach with testimony, 19 educators from throughout Hungary completed the first part of the 2016 Master Teacher program in Budapest.
Teaching with Testimony, Teaching with Testimony in 21st Century, master teacher, budapest, Andrea Szőnyi / Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Jewish survivor Miriam Arvan remembers the strong influence of antisemitism and Nazism on her schooling as a child. 
/ Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Jewish survivor Stephanie Krantz remembers being excluded from her high school because she didn't make the "Jewish quota" and was forced into a Jewish school.
/ Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Jewish survivor Elaine Siegel discusses her schooling throughout her childhood and teenage years. Her various teachers were Nazis, but only some would include their ideologies into lessons. As she grew up, she was labeled as "Jewish" and faced antisemitism in school.
/ Wednesday, July 13, 2016

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