With the help of generous donations both large and small, the Institute continues to:
Downey High School Students in California using IWitness, an online educational resource developed by the Institute, to watch testimony
participants in the Master Teacher Workshop
Rwandan survivor of the genocide, preparing to give her testimony to the Institute, in partnership with IBUKA
International Academic Conference
In Perpetuity: The Story of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute
We provide workshop opportunities and access to our Teacher Innovation Network, an easy way for teachers to connect and share ideas with each other.
Our newest resource for educators and students is IWitness, a website that will make a collection of more than 1,000 video testimonies from the Institute’s archive available on the Internet.
The Institute also offers a Master Teacher Workshop every summer for motivated secondary school educators committed to the innovative use of video testimony in Holocaust education.
To encourage educational use of the testimonies in the Institute’s archive in the countries and regions in which they originated, the Institute forms partnerships to build programs uniquely suited to local contexts. The Institute develops resources in French, Ukrainian, Czech, and several other languages. Learn more about the Institute's international outreach efforts.
The Institute is in a race to transfer the over 150,000 original video tapes in its archive to a secure digital format before the tapes begin to deteriorate. Learn more about the 5-year project to preserve the archive.
The Institute is providing support to other institutions and agencies to help them document the testimonies of survivors of other genocides, including the genocides in Rwanda, Armenia, and Cambodia.
The Institute provides full access to its video testimony archive to 28 institutions around the world. Find an archive site near you.
Faculty and scholars from various disciplines have used the archive for their courses and their published research.
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