Hate Speech is not Freedom of Speech
We have ample historical evidence that hateful words can be as dangerous as physical violence itself. German poet, Heinrich Heine said in 1821, “He who burns books will soon burn people.”
USC To Host International Academic Conference and Concert on Music as a Tool of Resistance
Los Angeles, Aug. 10, 2015 – USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, in collaboration with the USC Thornton School of Music, will be hosting scholars from around the world for two days of programming on Oct. 10 - 11 to highlight the use of music as a tool to resist oppression and spread awareness.
Stella Kolin on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Gad Beck on the Rosenstraße protest
Voices from the Archive
Under the Shadow of Paragraph 175: Part 3: Gad Beck
What makes Gad Beck’s story so remarkable, however, was that not only was he a “Mischling” but he was also a gay teenager living in Nazi Berlin, the epicenter of a military power antagonistic to both Jews and gays.
Strength in Humanity Triumphs Over Inhumanity
What does it mean to live 70 years after the liberation of Auschwitz in a world in deep crisis? What does it mean with all we know about the damage that hatred causes – after all the pain we have gone through – that we are hurtling out of control into an inferno of rage that takes us right back to where we started? Why are survivors of the Holocaust who walked out of the camps with at least the hope that their own suffering was not in vain, dying disappointed?
Make it Happen – The Women of the Visual History Archive
On March 8, 2015 there will be events all over the world celebrating the achievements of women for International Women’s Day. This year’s theme Make it Happen encourages action for advancing women’s rights and also recognizing the incredible and courageous work women do in various industries throughout the world.
Day 44 of 70 Days of Testimony: Kaz Wolff-Zdzienicki on resistance
Day 33 of 70 Days of Testimony: Mihaly Templer on observing Hanukkah
William Stern on Simchat Torah