USC Shoah Foundation expands its collection of Guatemalan Genocide testimonies

Fri, 08/09/2019 - 8:58am

Their loved ones – including women and children – were slaughtered by the military and tossed into mass graves.

For more than 30 years, survivors of the Guatemalan Genocide against the indigenous population assumed nobody cared about their stories.

After all, nobody had ever bothered to ask.

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Lecture: Women victims of sexual violence during ethnic genocides often thought of as ‘vessels for nationalism’

Mon, 01/28/2019 - 4:45pm
In her research of testimonies, USC student Virginia Bullington observed that women in the context of both the Armenian and Tutsi Rwanda genocides are often described as “bearers of culture, maternity and nationalism,” while in the Guatemalan context, “indigenous women were not essentialized -- they were erased.”
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Sandra Patricia García Paredes on her attempt to escape her captors

USC Shoah Foundation adds 5 IWitness activities in Spanish about Guatemala Genocide

Wed, 03/14/2018 - 2:13pm
The release follows the recent completion of 489 interviews with the survivors of the Guatemala Genocide at the hands of the Guatemalan military in the early 1980s.
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Partners from Guatemala and Chile Collaborate with IWitness on New Spanish-Language Content

Tue, 11/07/2017 - 5:00pm
From Oct. 24-26 at the USC Shoah Foundation office in Los Angeles, education staff guided the attendees through methodologies of building testimony-based educational content in IWitness and discussed plans and expectations for each institution moving forward.
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FilmRise and Amazon Acquire Distribution Rights to “Finding Oscar“

Wed, 12/07/2016 - 5:00pm
"Finding Oscar," the documentary film about the 1982 Dos Erres Massacre in Guatemala produced by Steven Spielberg in association with USC Shoah Foundation, will have its theatrical release in spring 2017 and will stream on Amazon Prime this summer.
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"Finding Oscar" to Play Ojai Film Festival and DOC NYC This Weekend

Wed, 11/09/2016 - 5:00pm
The film, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, has already screened at film festivals across the country and won four awards.
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"Finding Oscar" Opens Guatemalan Genocide Conference

Mon, 09/12/2016 - 5:00pm
Fresh off its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival last week, the documentary Finding Oscar was screened at the opening night of USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s conference “A ‘Conflict?’ Genocide and Resistance in Guatemala.”
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Guatemala Conference Preview: "Repression and Resistance"

Thu, 08/25/2016 - 5:00pm
UCLA Latin American Studies Professor Bonnie Taub will moderate the panel “Repression and Resistance” on the first full day of the conference.
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New Guatemala Content Coming to IWitness This Fall

Tue, 07/26/2016 - 5:00pm
Updates to IWitness in time for the new school year will include a suite of Spanish-language full-length testimonies, testimony clips and activities from USC Shoah Foundation’s new Guatemalan Genocide collection.
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