The young woman stares at me as I wait to press play on the video. Her eyes are dark and her lips are pursed. You can see a bit of her thick black hair which is matted beneath an off-white, or perhaps a light-pink scarf. It is hard to tell the exact color in the shadowed room.
Current Conflict Collections: How and Why USC Shoah Foundation is Collecting Testimony from Ongoing Conflicts
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Nearly 1,000 English Transcripts Added to Visual History Archive
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"Research in Industrial Projects" Students Present Findings to USC Shoah Foundation Staff
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Chief Technology Officer Sam Gustman to Speak at Future of Storytelling Summit
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Visual History Archive Update Includes Guest Login and New Testimonies
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USC Shoah Foundation Establishes Visual History Archive “Mirror Sites” Around the World
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Visual History Archive Workshops Around the World This Summer
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Visual History Archive Workshops Coming to Northeastern University, Keene State College and University of Pennsylvania
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Visual History Archive Update Adds Cambodian Genocide and Three Holocaust Collections
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Increases in Visual History Archive Access Sites, IWitness Users and More in Institute’s Latest Stats Update
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