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Lorna Miller on the testimony of Harry Krikor Guerguerian
... question that has challenged many survivors of the Armenian Genocide. The perpetrator confesses to him that he killed his father, three ... in an orphanage in Damascus, Syria. His experience of the genocide compelled him to devote his life to gathering documentary evidence of ...
deanna.pitre - 10/25/2022 - 11:49am
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USC Students: Enter Student Voices Short Film Contest
... from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, filmmakers, and genocide experts. This year, Student Voices is led by DEFY, USC Shoah ... at USC's Ground Zero Performance Cafe during USC Genocide Awareness Week in April. While contestants are permitted to use any ...
robin.migdol - 12/06/2017 - 2:31pm
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Announcing the IWitness Video Challenge Regional Winners
... Academy Charter High School in Pennsylvania helped raise awareness and galvanize support amongst classmates, family, and friends for a ...
robin.migdol - 04/03/2014 - 2:57pm
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“100 Days to Inspire Respect” Week 6: Countering Intolerance
... of testimony from the Visual History Archive that describe genocide survivors’ and witnesses’ experiences with intolerance will be ... they can counter discrimination in schools. The month of March (Women’s History Month) will begin on Wednesday with a Mini ...
robin.migdol - 03/03/2017 - 5:52pm
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Olive Mukanyamurasa
... Program, which advocates for victims of the Rwanda Tutsi Genocide including AIDS patients and orphans, led tours of genocide memorials, ... acutely relate to USC Shoah Foundation’s mission to spread awareness about genocide through testimony. “As someone from Rwanda, a ...
robin.migdol - 09/04/2013 - 4:54pm
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Teaching respect #BeginsWithMe
... Teaching with Testimony Genocide: Holocaust survivor Itka Zygmuntowicz Holocaust ... the last time she saw her mother. Genocide: Holocaust survivor Itka Zygmuntowicz Language: English ...
deanna.pitre - 01/10/2020 - 3:54pm
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Film Screening and Fellow Lecture This Week at USC Shoah Foundation
... USC Shoah Foundation and its Center for Advanced Genocide Research are hosting two events this week that are free and open to ... of human trafficking in the 20th century. Despite growing awareness of human trafficking, this particular history has gone largely ...
robin.migdol - 02/24/2015 - 11:14am
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Aleksan Markaryan: The Last Interviewee
... USC Shoah Foundation mourns the death of Armenian Genocide survivor Aleksan Markaryan in January 2017. The story below was ... were integrated into the Visual History Archive this month, for a total of 245 since the collection launched in April 2015. The ...
robin.migdol - 01/18/2017 - 1:38pm
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UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova Discusses Education and Preventing Extremism in Conversation with Stephen Smith
... UNESCO’s activities on Holocaust remembrance and awareness and is the first Director-General of the Organization to appoint a ... Holocaust Education. Smith holds the UNESCO Chair on Genocide Education to collaborate with genocide researchers and educators ...
robin.migdol - 06/06/2023 - 4:15pm
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Adam Strom on the testimony of Harotune Aivazian
... spring of 1915, the Young Turk regime of the Ottoman began a genocide against its Armenian population under the cover of World War I. This ... and Ourselves has created a resource book on the Armenian Genocide called Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the ...
deanna.pitre - 12/11/2019 - 10:43am