Livestream: Panel after screening of "Who Will Write Our History"
At UNESCO’s Paris headquarters on Jan. 27, USC Shoah Foundation Finci-Viterbi Executive Director Stephen Smith will host a panel discussion following a screening of “Who Will Write Our History,” a documentary by Director Roberta Grossman and Executive Producer Nancy Spielberg that chronicles a covert effort by a group of resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto who amassed an archive of documents that would later shed light on the Nazi atrocities that occurred there.
UNESCO to use new USC Shoah Foundation testimonies in initiative to counter rising antisemitism
Chouna Lomponda, the communications director of the Jewish Museum of Belgium; Viviane Teitelbaum, member of the Brussels Parliament in Belgium; Abdelghani Merah, brother of Mohammed Merah, a terrorist who in 2012 killed seven people in France in a series of gun attacks; Peter Sundin, a former neo-Nazi who is now a Holocaust studies lecturer. They are among dozens who were interviewed for USC Shoah Foundation's new Countering Antisemitism collection.
USC Shoah Foundation Hosts Third Meeting of UNESCO Latin American Network for Education on the Holocaust and Other Genocides
The meeting is supported by USC Shoah Foundation and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development. Stephen Smith, executive director of USC Shah Foundation, holds the UNESCO Chair in Genocide Education.
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova Discusses Education and Preventing Extremism in Conversation with Stephen Smith
Bokova discussed the importance of human rights education in combating radical extremism around the world in a talk on February 8 in Leavey Library.
UNESCO Director General To Speak at USC Shoah Foundation
Ambassador Irina Bokova, director general of UNESCO, will visit USC Shoah Foundation and participate in a public discussion/Q&A on Monday, February 8 at 11 a.m.
USC Shoah Foundation Staff Attend UNESCO Meeting on Preventing Violent Extremism Through Education
The roundtable discussions and panels helped lay the framework for UNESCO to develop digital educational resources and a teacher’s guide.
UNESCO Exhibit “Journeys Through the Holocaust” Viewable on USC Shoah Foundation Website
You don’t have to be in Paris to view UNESCO’s “Journeys Through the Holocaust” exhibit, curated by USC Shoah Foundation associate director of education – evaluation and scholarship Dr. Amy M Carnes. The entire exhibit is posted – in English and French – right here on the USC Shoah Foundation website.