Educators convene in Hungary and Poland for training on using genocide-survivor testimony in lessons

Fri, 07/20/2018

USC Shoah Foundation’s annual Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century program is a one-year professional development initiative for educators that begins with a six-day seminar for educators.

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IWalk: Memory, Testimony, and Activism

Mon, 04/23/2018

By: Eleanor Huntington

In my role as part of USC Shoah Foundation’s Education Department, I have the honor of working with our team members both in the United States and around the world to create localized educational content using genocide survivor testimony. As a former classroom teacher and a lifelong believer in the importance of experiential learning, I was fortunate to take part in three IWalks in Budapest, Hungary, Prague, Czechia, and Warsaw, Poland while on a recent vacation.

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Ukrainian Students Commemorate Anniversary of Babi Yar Massacre with IWalks

Fri, 09/29/2017

USC Shoah Foundation’s IWalk at the site of the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine is helping students gain a deeper understanding of the tragedy in commemoration of its 76th anniversary this week.

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First-Ever American IWalk Guides Students Through Boyle Heights, Los Angeles

Wed, 09/13/2017

“Pastrami, Tacos, Burgers: Continuity and Change in Boyle Heights” is now published on IWitness, incorporating Holocaust survivor testimony clips into a guided walk through the historic immigrant community of Boyle Heights, Los Angeles.

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Two Schools Collaborate on IWalk in Czech Republic

Wed, 06/28/2017

Marcel Mahdal, a graduate of the USC Shoah Foundation Master Teacher program in Czech Republic launched a project last week in which students from two schools work together to create their own local IWalk.

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Teachers in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, Attend First IWitness/IWalk Seminar

Mon, 04/10/2017

This seminar was a part of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies’ "Protecting Memory" project.

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Warsaw Council Members Commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day with IWalk

Thu, 02/02/2017

The IWalk went along one of the busiest streets in Warsaw which used to be part of the Warsaw Ghetto.

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A lot of pain is firmly attached to stories and testimonies of genocide. This in mind, Zhenya Bilotsky, a high school student from a Jewish school in Ukraine, yearned to do the stories of the survivors of the Babi Yar ravine massacre in Ukraine justice with his involvement in the new Babi Yar IWalk - an educational program that put on a walk around the ravine guided by testimony clips from the Visual History Archive.