American University of Paris Accepting Applications for Workshop on Visual History Archive Research

Mon, 02/27/2017

The American University of Paris will host a workshop October 26-27, 2017, dedicated to sharing scholars’ experiences conducting research in the Visual History Archive. Applications are due May 9, 2017.

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IWitness Provides Testimony Clips for French Contest on Resistance and Deportation

Thu, 11/17/2016

The contest aims to perpetuate in students the memory of the resistance and the deportation in France during the Holocaust so that they can draw inspiration from it and draw civic lessons from it in their lives today.

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French Exhibit “Paroles de libérés” Now Available Online

Tue, 02/02/2016

A French-language testimony exhibit that first launched on the ENS Lyon campus last April has been published online.

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French-Language Article Traces History of USC Shoah Foundation

Wed, 12/09/2015

USC Shoah Foundation’s French consultant Emmanuel Debono published an article about USC Shoah Foundation and its use of testimony in the French review journal Études arméniennes contemporaines (Contemporary Armenian Studies).

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French Contest on Resistance and Deportation Incorporates Testimony for Fourth Year

Mon, 10/05/2015

This is the fourth year USC Shoah Foundation has provided an exhibit of relevant testimony clips that students may use for research or incorporate into their projects.

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Testimony Helps Designate French Nun "Righteous Among the Nations"

Thu, 08/06/2015

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.

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French Students Watch Testimony for National Contest on Resistance and Deportation

Tue, 12/09/2014

For the third year, USC Shoah Foundation is providing testimony clips that French high school students can use in the essays and audiovisual works they submit to the National Contest on Resistance and Deportation (CNRD).

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The Place of the Vél d’Hiv Roundup in French Collective Memory

Fri, 07/18/2014

By: Leticia Villasenor

On July 16 -17, 1942, over 13,000 Jews from Paris and its suburbs were rounded up by French police in the early morning hours and forcefully taken from their homes to both the Vélodrome d’Hiver, a winter cycling stadium in Paris, and to the Drancy internment camp.

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New Online Exhibit Commemorates the Battle of Normandy on 70th Anniversary of D-Day

Fri, 06/06/2014

On the 70th anniversary of D-Day, in which Allied troops landed on the Normandy coast in France, USC Shoah Foundation has published a new online exhibit featuring the testimonies of soldiers and witnesses who recall that historic day.

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