On April 17, 1975, the city of Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge, triggering a four-year genocide. In commemoration, USC Shoah Foundation is spotlighting its Cambodia-based learning activities for high school students.
Armenian Genocide Researcher Stumbles onto Surprise that Hits Home
Fri, 04/13/2018 - 3:11pm
When USC Shoah Foundation’s Manuk Avedikyan was researching the Institute’s new oral-history collection of Armenian Genocide survivors, something unusual caught his eye.
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Surviving Silence: Armenian Voices at USC Shoah Foundation
Sedda Antekelian and Manuk Avedikyan will talk about IWitness, an online education resource developed by USC Shoah Foundation, that provides access to eyewitness testimonies of the Armenian genocide and classroom activities for educators.
Details:
Start: April 25, 2018 / 6:30 PM
Where:
Whittier Public Library – Whittwood Branch, Whittier, CA
Venue:
Whittier Public Library – Whittwood Branch
10537 Santa Gertrudes Ave, Whittier, CA 90603, United States
As an interpreter at Nuremberg, Edith Coliver had a front-row seat to many historic moments, such as the testimony of Hermann Göring, creator of the Gestapo.
Rohingya survivor: Myanmar government “wanted to punish me for telling the truth.”
Tue, 04/03/2018 - 4:54pm
Jamalida’s interview is among dozens of testimonies documented by USC Shoah Foundation since its arrival in November to the refugee camps in Bangladesh. A total of 11 life-history interviews with Rohingya are being added the Visual History Archive, the world’s largest repository of genocide testimony.
Christopher Browning Talks About the Changing Attitudes of Witness Testimony in Genocide Studies
Thu, 03/29/2018 - 6:18pm
Despite the testimony of many witnesses to his Nazi-era crimes, Walther Becker walked out of a German courtroom a free man. The judge in the case – who was later revealed to have his own Nazi sympathies – gave little credence to survivor testimony when he handed down his 1972 verdict.
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.
USC Shoah Foundation Adds Large Collection of Armenian Genocide Testimony to its Archive
Thu, 03/08/2018 - 4:54pm
By:
Richard Hovannisian with USC Shoah Foundation colleague Karen Jungblut
The more than 1,000 interviews will constitute the largest non-Holocaust-related collection to be integrated into the Institute’s Visual History Archive. It will also be the Archive’s first audio-only collection.
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The United States and the Question of the Armenian Genocide
A public lecture by Julien Zarifian (American History, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France)
2017-2018 Fulbright Scholar, USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research
This lecture is co-sponsored by the California Hub of the Institut des Amériques and by the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies.
Details:
Start: April 19, 2018 / 12:00 PM
Where:
Doheny Memorial Library Room 241, Los Angeles, CA
Venue:
Doheny Memorial Library Room 241
3502 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
