USC Shoah Foundation Institute

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) 33rd Annual Conference

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:00:00 -0800

Institute staff members Sherry Bard and Gayle Kolodny-Cole will present "Holocaust Survivor/Witness Video Testimony and 21st Century Learning" from 1-3 PM at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) 33rd Annual Conference. In the session, they will demonstrate and discuss IWitness, the Institute's new educational website for teachers and students.

Steven Spielberg, Institute to honor Disney Chairman & CEO Robert A. Iger with Ambassador for Humanity Award

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:47:00 -0800

On June 6, 2012, Steven Spielberg, Founder of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, will present Robert A. Iger, Chairman & CEO of The Walt Disney Company and longtime philanthropist, with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s highest honor, the Ambassador for Humanity Award. Iger will be recognized at a gala in Los Angeles hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, with a special musical performance by Mary J. Blige.

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Holocaust survivors' testimonies aid neuroscience research

Wed, 16 May 2012 23:00:00 -0800

Steven Spielberg and USC Shoah Foundation Institute Recognize Arnold Spielberg with Inaugural Inspiration Award

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:00:00 -0800

"Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture"

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:00:00 -0800

LA City Council honors Institute on Armenian Genocide Commemoration Day

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:00:00 -0800

VHA access point opens at History Meeting House in Warsaw

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:00:00 -0800

Visual History Archive launches at University of Pennsylvania

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:00:00 -0800

Institute honored by USC Institute of Armenian Studies

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:00:00 -0800

Yehuda Bauer and Father Patrick Desbois visit the Institute

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:00:00 -0800

Inaugural Inspiration Award and luncheon to honor Arnold Spielberg

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:00:00 -0800

The research of resistance

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:00:00 -0800

Institute representatives visit South Africa, Rwanda

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:00:00 -0800

Shoah Foundation Institute Student Association

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:00:00 -0800

USC Shoah Foundation Institute Partners With United Nations To Observe International Women’s Day

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

USC Institute of Armenian Studies Gala Event to Salute USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Armenian Genocide Digitization Project

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

USC leadership visits Israel

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New Dimensions in Testimony

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

All the Missing Souls

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Educational outreach to Czech borderlands

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Stories of Holocaust survivors unveiled to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London’s Holocaust Research Centre now have access to the nearly 52,000 video interviews with Holocaust survivors and other witnesses collected by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, which was established by Steven Spielberg.

IWitness Debuts at UN

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

More than 350 New York metropolitan area high school students will debut the work that they completed in the IWitness application at the United Nations Headquarters on January 23, 2012.

Subtitled clips of testimony in multiple languages show the depth of experience in the Institute's archive

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Institute Regional Consultants Convene in Los Angeles to Discuss Next Stage for its International Visual History Program

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Beginning Friday, January 6, 2012, regional consultants from Central and Eastern Europe have been on the USC campus for a 10-day-long workshop at the Shoah Foundation Institute.

Symposium, "The Future of Memory: Voices of Social Change?"

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Cuba’s First Permanent Holocaust Exhibit Opens at the Sephardic Center

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Institute participating in Hungarian Holocaust education fellowship program

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Institute Staff introduces IWitness at 100th annual NCTE Conference

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

When the Past is Present

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Institute Staff Attend International Task Force

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Institute’s archive now in the Cloud

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Institute welcomes new Director of Programs, Dr. Kori Street

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

University of Athens, in partnership with Freie Universität Berlin, gains access to the Institute's Visual History Archive

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust To Offer Public Access to 2,500 Testimony Videos from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

McMaster University becomes first site in Canada with access to the Institute's Visual History Archive

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Anti-Defamation League, USC Shoah Foundation Institute workshop for teachers

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Alan Rosen lecture: Early Holocaust testimonies taken at displaced persons camps

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Museum education directors trained on Echoes and Reflections

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Researching Dutch resistance: Institute welcomes visiting scholar

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:00:00 -0800

HBO-sponsored filmmaking workshop draws dozens of students

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Teachers in Komárno are introduced to USC Shoah Foundation Institute testimonies

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Interns arrive from Kigali Genocide Memorial Center

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Stephen D. Smith to moderate panel at USC Global Conference in Hong Kong

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:00:00 -0800

McMaster University becomes first Canadian repository of the Visual History Archive

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Dr. Dan Leshem on Hitler letter exhibited at Museum of Tolerance

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Award-Winning Filmmaker Michael Apted To Give Keynote Address at USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Student Voices Master Class Presented by HBO

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Michael Apted, prolific British film director and former president of the Director’s Guild of America, will be speaking to the public about testimonies and documentary filmmaking at 5 pm, Sunday, October 9 at the Ray Stark Family Theatre at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Partners with Freie Universität Berlin

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Spell Your Name Screening at the Ukrainian Cinema Club in Berlin

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Wolf Gruner Becomes First Senior Fellow

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Italian-Language Memories of the Holocaust

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Read this item in Italian

Research fellow from Tel Aviv University lectures at the Institute

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Nazi hunter for U.S. Dept of Justice speaks at USC

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Doctoral student from Tel Aviv University becomes Institute's first research fellow

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Institute trains teachers in Czech Republic

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Stephen D. Smith lectures in Ukraine on "Testimony in an Age of Violent Ideologies"

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:00:00 -0800

"Pain of Memory": New education kit and training program for teachers in Ukraine

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Teachers Awarded “Teaching with Testimony" Certificate at USC Shoah Foundation Institute Professional Development Workshop

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Kim Simon to receive honorary degree

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Institute participates in UCLA program for high-achieving math undergrads

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Institute staff members teach courses at USC

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Institute announces faculty stipends

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:00:00 -0800

18 Educators return to the Institute for a 3-day follow-up professional development workshop

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:00:00 -0800

18 educators from the 2010 Master Teacher Workshop meet a year later to share their testimony-based projects and discuss the progress of piloting them in the classroom. Graduates received continuing education credits from the USC Rossier School of Education.

USC Shoah Foundation Institute offers professional development for U.S. teachers on the intersection of Holocaust studies and multiliteracies

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Northwestern University gains access to Institute's Visual History Archive

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:00:00 -0800

“Revolution of Conscience”: Stephen D. Smith at TEDxUSC (video)

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Video of Muslim who rescued Jews during World War II shown at 2nd-annual Muslim Jewish Conference in Ukraine

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:20:00 -0800

Institute holds workshop at 2nd annual Muslim Jewish Conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 5, 2011. Workshop included screening of a video clip of a Muslim rescuer who helped save a Jewish family from being executed at Babi Yar.

Executive Director Stephen D. Smith's Jewish Journal Op-Ed

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:00:00 -0800

New Hungarian-Language Lesson

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:00:00 -0800

First Online French Lesson Used by Students in France

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Musical Performances from the Archive

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Holocaust survivors display their musical talent in short clips from their interviews for the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.

Spell Your Name Screened at International Forum 2011, Kyiv, June 22, 2011

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Archival Access at Salzburg University Brings Testimonies to Austria

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:00:00 -0800

L.A. Museum of the Holocaust to continue leading museum innovation with video sculpture using USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust to create 65-screen video sculpture presenting USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s archive of 52,000 interviews with Holocaust survivors and other witnesses. Survivor video wall to further award-winning, nationally-recognized Museum’s role as a leader in exhibit innovation

Balazs Bokor, Consul General of the Republic of Hungary in Los Angeles, visits USC Shoah Foundation Institute

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Institute's Dr. Dan Leshem to speak at seminar in Lithuania

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Hungarian Regional Consultant, Andrea Szőnyi, in Los Angeles

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Brian L. Roberts Receives Ambassador for Humanity Award

Tue, 10 May 2011 23:00:00 -0800

13,000th Educator Trained on Echoes and Reflections

Mon, 09 May 2011 23:00:00 -0800

USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Executive Director to address CA State Assembly

Sun, 01 May 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Comcast and the Institute Launch “Days of Remembrance” Series Featuring Award-Winning Documentary Films

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:00:00 -0800

USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Short-Film Competition Recognizes Students from across the University

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:00:00 -0800

STEVEN SPIELBERG AND USC SHOAH FOUNDATION INSTITUTE TO HONOR BRIAN L. ROBERTS, CHAIRMAN & CEO OF COMCAST, FOR HIS VISIONARY LEADERSHIP AND LONGTIME PHILANTHROPY

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Philadelphia Youth Institute Program Pilots IWitness

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Executive Director and Managing Director Speak at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's National Research Centre Forum

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Martin Šmok, the Institute's Senior International Program Consultant, discusses the Institute on Czech radio

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Introducing USC Shoah Foundation Institute in Subotica (Serbia)

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Stephen D. Smith, other Holocaust Education Leaders in Macedonia to Discuss National Holocaust Education Program

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:04:00 -0800

First Anniversary Conference of the Malach Center for Visual History at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:28:00 -0800

Two documentaries Using Testimonies from the Archive to Air on Italian Television

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:54:00 -0800

Ukrainian Society and Holocaust Remembrance: Research and Educational Aspects

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:46:00 -0800

Women and the Holocaust: Courage and Compassion

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

U.S. College Professors Attend Echoes And Reflections Seminar At Yad Vashem

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Steven Spielberg And USC Shoah Foundation Institute Honor Jeffrey Katzenberg, Longtime Philanthropist And CEO Of Dreamworks Animation

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Shoah Foundation Institute at OktaTARS – International Fellowship Program in Holocaust Education

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

STEVEN SPIELBERG AND USC SHOAH FOUNDATION INSTITUTE TO HONOR JEFFREY KATZENBERG, LONGTIME PHILANTHROPIST AND CEO OF DREAMWORKS ANIMATION

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Fates Closed in Numbers

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Podcast With Stephen D. Smith and the Holocaust Denial on Trial Project

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Problems Without Passports

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Central European University Seminar – Testimonies and Teaching: New Sources and Methodologies for Jewish Studies

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:00:00 -0800

“A New Generation of Learning: Holocaust Education and the Internet"

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:00:00 -0800

ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:00:00 -0800

Video Testimony Beyond Borders: Ukrainian, Georgian, and Armenian Teachers Share Ideas

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:00:00 -0800

“Rwanda: Confronting a Painful Past”

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:00:00 -0800

INSTITUTE AMONG SELECT GROUP TO TAKE PART IN NSF-FUNDED RIPS PROGRAM

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:00:00 -0800

USC Shoah Foundation Institute Trains Teachers at Intersection of Holocaust Education and Digital Literacy Studies

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:00:00 -0800

NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY HONORS SMITH FAMILY FOR FOUNDING UK HOLOCAUST CENTRE

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:00:00 -0800

PRESERVATION UPDATE

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:00:00 -0800

Stephen D. Smith Keynote Speaker at Holland & Knight Student Essay Contest Awards Event

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:00:00 -0800

"REFLECTIONS FOR A MORE TOLERANT WORLD"

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:00:00 -0800

WHAT'S YOUR ISSUE

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:00:00 -0800

TASK FORCE FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ON HOLOCAUST EDUCATION, REMEMBRANCE, AND RESEARCH

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:00:00 -0800

HUMAN DIMENSION OF THE UKRAINIAN FAMINE

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:00:00 -0800

Students in UK Learn from Testimony

Wed, 12 May 2010 23:00:00 -0800

A NEW GENERATION OF LEARNING: HOLOCAUST EDUCATION AND THE INTERNET

Mon, 10 May 2010 23:00:00 -0800

NEW LEADERSHIP ON THE INSTITUTE'S BOARD OF COUNCILORS

Mon, 10 May 2010 23:00:00 -0800

USC College Faculty Member Wins Prize for Teaching with Testimony

Sun, 09 May 2010 23:00:00 -0800

First Phase of Educational Program in Hungary Completed

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:00:00 -0800

The first phase of the program in which educator teams developed multimedia lessons from the Hungarian-language testimonies of the Institute’s Visual History Archive ended on April 17, 2010 with an official ceremony at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest. The program was based on a three-way partnership between the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, the Holocaust Memorial Center and the Educational Research and Development Institute (OFI) of the Hungarian Ministry of Education.

Living Histories Co-author Receives 2010 Top Teacher Award

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:00:00 -0800

USC SHOAH FOUNDATION INSTITUTE SIGNS HISTORIC AGREEMENT WITH ARMENIAN FILM FOUNDATION

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:00:00 -0800

NEVER AGAIN, YET AGAIN

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:00:00 -0800

First International Academic Conference on the Visual History Archive

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:00:00 -0800

"RECONSTRUCTING THE HOLOCAUST FROM BELOW"

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:00:00 -0800

10,000th Educator Trained on Echoes and Reflections

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

USC Shoah Foundation Institute Hosts Reception for New Video Installation at the United Nations

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Archival Access at Charles University Brings Testimonies to Czech Republic

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Charles University in Prague has become the fourth European institution, and the first in the Czech Republic, with access to the Institute\'s archive of testimony. English press release | Czech press release

Institute Helps Prepare USC Students for Field Research in Cambodia

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Steven Spielberg Receives Anti-Defamation League’s Highest Award

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Tolerance and Holocaust Education Reaches Thousands in Ukraine through Nationwide Training Program

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:00:00 -0800

Three thousand two hundred teachers throughout the 24 regions of Ukraine and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea have been trained and equipped with a new tolerance education resource: Encountering Memory, a multimedia kit for teachers to support the educational use of Spell Your Name, director Sergey Bukovsky’s documentary film about the Holocaust in Ukraine. (Ukrainian)

Connecting educators through the Teacher Innovation Network

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:00:00 -0800

USC Shoah Foundation Institute Receives Grant from Jim Joseph Foundation to Support Increased Access and Use of Visual History Archive

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:44:00 -0800

The Jim Joseph Foundation’s grant will permit the Institute to host the 2010 International Digital Access Outreach and Research Conference. Currently, more than 20 institutions on three continents have access to the entire archive. This will be the first gathering of colleagues from these institutions.

Central European University in Budapest Offers Workshop on Using Testimonies in Teaching

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:00:00 -0800

The Curriculum Resource Center (CRC) at the Central European University, Hungary is hosting academics for one week, offering workshops on course design and teaching methodologies. One such upcoming workshop, on the theme of “New Sources and Methodologies for Jewish Studies,” will encourage participants to work with the VHA. (Hungarian)

Teacher Training Program Launches in Croatia

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:00:00 -0800

PRESERVING RWANDAN GENOCIDE SURVIVORS' MEMORIES

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:00:00 -0800

Genocide Survivor Testimony in Documentary Film: Its Afterlife and Its Legacy

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:00:00 -0800

Searchable memories

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:00:00 -0800

“The historical importance of these testimonies is inestimable,” said Stephen Smith, Institute Executive Director, “but it’s the ability to search the archive, to identify testimony that addresses a particular theme or topic, which makes the archive useful to educators, students, and scholars. If the archive did not have this feature, its full potential as an educational resource could never be realized.”

Institute Welcomes New Executive Director, Stephen Smith

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:00:00 -0800

After an extensive worldwide search, Howard Gillman, Dean of the USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, announced this week the appointment of a new leadership team for the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education. Stephen Smith will be the new executive director, and Kim Simon will the new managing director for the Institute.

Young Artists and Writers Respond to Testimony

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:00:00 -0800

USC Faculty Stipends Available

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:00:00 -0800

Institute announces a program of stipends for USC faculty.

Witnesses of the Shoah: Testimony Reaches Students in Germany

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:02:00 -0800

Secondary school students throughout Germany will be able to view Holocaust eyewitness testimony through Witnesses of the Shoah, a new educational outreach program launched by Institute partner, Freie Universität Berlin’s Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS).

Looking at History: Berlin Workshop Focuses on Holocaust Testimony in European Education

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:53:00 -0800

For the first time, the Institute’s international partners came together for “Looking at History: Incorporating Video Testimony across the Curriculum,” an intensive workshop at Freie Universität Berlin on the educational use of video testimony in Europe.

Internship Brings Cambodian Colleagues to the Institute

Fri, 29 May 2009 13:06:00 -0800

This spring, three staff members from the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) visited the Institute to participate in a three-month internship program to support DC-Cam’s ongoing effort to collect testimony from survivors of the genocide perpetrated in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge regime, which claimed as many as two million lives.

Survivors’ Testimonies at the Illinois Holocaust Museum

Fri, 29 May 2009 12:53:00 -0800

On April 19, the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center celebrated its grand opening in Skokie, Illinois. A project of the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois, the new museum is the largest and most advanced center in the Midwest dedicated to teaching the history and universal lessons of the Holocaust.

"Witnesses of the Shoah": more than 50,000 Holocaust eyewitness testimonies available for education in schools

Mon, 11 May 2009 23:00:00 -0800

The translation of the Visual History Archive interface will facilitate the use of Holocaust eyewitness testimony as a foundation for education, scholarship, and research in Germany. (English | German)

Institute’s Archive of Testimonies Now Accessible at Central-European University

Thu, 07 May 2009 23:00:00 -0800

Central European University is the first site in Central Eastern Europe to have direct access to the visual archive. Institute also to launch International Visual History Program in Hungary.
(English | Hungarian)

Living Histories

Mon, 04 May 2009 23:00:00 -0800

As part of the activities recognizing the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s 15th year, the Institute has released Living Histories: Seven Voices from the Holocaust, a multimedia educational resource geared toward high school students and educators in the United States.

The Power of the Testimonies: One Scholar’s Journey

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:44:00 -0800

Historian Mikhail Tyaglyy recently traveled from Ukraine to Los Angeles in order to continue a journey he started nearly fifteen years ago as an interviewer for the Shoah Foundation Institute.

Spell Your Name screening held at USC Norris Cinema Theater

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Sunday, February 22, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute presented a screening of its most recent documentary, Spell Your Name, followed by a discussion panel.

Steven Spielberg and USC Shoah Foundation Institute Honored Legendary Actor and Humanitarian Kirk Douglas

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:00:00 -0800

Steven Spielberg, Honorary Chair of the Shoah Foundation, presented the Ambassadors for Humanity Award to legendary actor and humanitarian Kirk Douglas. Kirk Douglas was honored for his commitment and support of the organization at an evening hosted by Billy Crystal on October 22, 2008.

Visiting scholars share their experiences using the Visual History Archive

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:00:00 -0800

See video of their presentations and interviews.

Erna and Andrew Viterbi’s Gift to USC Shoah Foundation Institute Heralds New Era of Online Educational Outreach

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:00:00 -0800

The Viterbi Family Foundation of the Jewish Community Foundation has made a $2 million gift to the USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences’ Shoah Foundation Institute to endow the Institute’s website. This gift will permit the Institute to deliver state-of-the-art, online resources that represent the needs of educators and students around the world.

Corrie ten Boom Scholar Welcomed to USC Campus

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:00:00 -0800

Jacek Leociak, PhD, Historian of Literature, Assistant Professor in the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN), and Director of IBL PAN post-graduate studies, has devoted his life to communicating the importance of understanding, respecting, and appreciating the diversity derived from collaboration among individuals of numerous cultural and spiritual backgrounds. His presentation at the USC Institute for Genetic Medicine Art Gallery underscored these themes.

HOLOCAUST: The Events and Their Impact on Real People Wins Teachers' Choice Award

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:00:00 -0800

HOLOCAUST: The Events and Their Impact on Real People, a book for students published by DK publishing in association with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, has been selected as a 2009 Teachers\' Choice Award winner in the Children\'s Books category.

USC Shoah Foundation Institute Begins Massive, State of the Art Preservation Effort to Save One of World’s Largest Video Archive

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:00:00 -0800

The preservation of one of the largest digital video archives in the world got underway this fall at the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, where staff began converting more than 100,000 hours of videotaped Holocaust testimonials to a new digital format.

National Training for Educators in Ukraine

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:00:00 -0800

Hundreds of teachers and thousands of students are introduced to Encountering Memory
English | Українська

Kim Simon Named Interim Executive Director

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:00:00 -0800

Kim has been chiefly responsible for the Institute\'s international agenda and has been with the organization, in many capacities, since its inception. She brings to this assignment knowledge of the full range of Institute activities and a commitment to its mission. She is the ideal person to lead the organization through this transition, and she is perfectly suited to carry out the strategic plan that we have charted.

Das Vermächtnis (The Legacy)

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:00:00 -0800

On May 11, government officials, educators, historians, teachers, and students attended an event recognizing the release of Das Vermächtnis (The Legacy), a Holocaust education resource developed by erinnern.at. The Legacy is the first resource for teachers in Austria that uses testimony from the Institute’s Visual History Archive (view German-language news coverage of the launch event).

Institute Adopts New Strategic Plan

Tue, 27 May 2008 23:00:00 -0800

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute has adopted a new strategic plan that aims to increase the educational and scholarly significance of the video testimonies in its Visual History Archive. The plan focuses on several key areas that are vital to the success of the Institute\'s mission: scholarship and research, education, access to the archive, new content, and preservation of current content.

Telling an Unfinished Story

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:00:00 -0800

During a forum hosted by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, Los Angeles teachers compare a Holocaust survivor’s diary to his testimony a half-century later.

International Conference on Tolerance

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:00:00 -0800

Attend Religious Tolerance and Intolerance from the Inquisition to the Present on April 3-4 at USC
view press release

Screening of Behind This Convent, a Documentary Film about the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

On March 25, the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and the USC Shoah Foundation Institute will host a screening of Behind This Convent, a documentary film directed by Gilbert Ndahayo that details the tragedy that befell his village during the hundred-day Rwandan Tutsi Genocide of 1994 that claimed as many as one million lives.

USC Shoah Foundation Institute and IBUKA to Collect Testimonies of Survivors of the Rwandan Tutsi Genocide

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education and IBUKA, the umbrella organization representing survivors of the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide, have agreed to collaborate on a project to record the testimonies of survivors of the genocide in Rwanda that claimed as many as one million lives.

USC Shoah Foundation Institute announces stipends for USC faculty

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education announces a program of summer stipends to assist members of the faculty in integrating the Institute’s interviews into existing courses or to assist in the creation of new courses.

Recollections Wins BAFTA Award

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Recollections: Eyewitnesses Remember the Holocaust, a groundbreaking DVD-ROM, won a prestigious BAFTA award at the Academy’s Children’s Awards held on Sunday 25th November. The interactive resource received the accolade as the best in the Learning Secondary category at the awards, which celebrates the cream of children’s film and television.

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Makes USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Holocaust Survivor and Witness Testimonies Available

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800

The world’s largest collection of visual Holocaust survivor and witness testimonies is now available to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum visitors. The testimonies are accessible through computer terminals in the Museum’s Library and Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors.

Kyiv Training Seminar Marks International Day of Tolerance

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800

On the occasion of the International Day of Tolerance—an annual day of observance initiated by UNESCO in 1996 to generate public awareness of the dangers of intolerance—a two-day seminar took place on November 15 and 16 at the House of Teachers in Kyiv to train Ukrainian teachers of social sciences and humanities on the use of a new multimedia teacher’s guide titled Encountering Memory. View Ukranian Text.

Echoes and Reflections Holocaust Curriculum Recognized by Peers with National Media Award

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:00:00 -0800

Echoes and Reflections, a groundbreaking multimedia curriculum on the Holocaust, has been honored for its use of visual history testimony and its educational website by the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) with its 2007 National Multicultural Media Award.

Redesigned Shoah Foundation Institute Website Goes Online

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:00:00 -0800

Today the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education launched its redesigned website at www.college.usc.edu/vhi. The Institute’s mission is to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry—and the suffering they cause—through the educational use of the Institute’s visual history testimonies.

Corrie ten Boom Research Awards Offer Visiting Scholars an Opportunity to Conduct Research at the Institute

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:00:00 -0800

The University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education announces the availability of the Corrie ten Boom Research Award. Named for the Dutch rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust and funded by the Ahmanson Community Trust, these research awards are designed to facilitate research in the video archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.

FAU and LEAH Partner to Give Florida Community Access to USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Archive

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:00:00 -0800

Florida Atlantic University students, faculty, staff, as well as the general community, will have access to video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses from around the world when the University provides access to the University of Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation Institute\'s Visual History Archive.

Renci Extends Visual History Archive to Duke, NC State Campuses

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:00:00 -0800

The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) is expanding access to the world’s largest video history archive to students, faculty and staff at Duke University and North Carolina State University.

Holocaust: The Events and Their Impact on Real People

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:00:00 -0800

In association with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, DK Publishing is honored to publish HOLOCAUST: The Events and Their Impact on Real People, a moving and powerful book for families about one of the world’s most profound tragedies.

Monash University partners with the Institute to Become the First Australian University to Launch Largest Visual History Archive

Wed, 16 May 2007 23:00:00 -0800

Monash University today, announced the Australasian launch of the largest visual history archive in the world.

USC Shoah Foundation Institute Honors Wallis Annenberg with the Ambassadors for Humanity Award

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:00:00 -0800

Steven Spielberg, Founder of the Shoah Foundation, presents the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Ambassadors for Humanity Award to Wallis Annenberg. Longtime supporter of the organization Jerry Seinfeld will serve as host. The event will also feature a performance by Don Henley.

Testimony to Tolerance Initiative Launched In Little Rock, Arkansas

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:00:00 -0800

Institute Executive Director Interviewed on University of Southern California’s Television Show CU@USC

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:00:00 -0800

Douglas Greenberg, Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, discusses the past, present, and future of the Institute. Topics include how the Institute began, how its mission has evolved over time, and new directions that the Institute may take in the near future.

University of Minnesota Libraries Give Community Access to Archive of Holocaust survivor and witness testimonies

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800

University of Minnesota students, faculty, and staff—as well as the general public—will have access to the world’s largest archive of visual histories of the Holocaust this month, when the University Libraries launch a two-terabyte digital media cache of testimonies from the University of Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive.

Spell Your Name, produced by Steven Spielberg and Victor Pinchuk, to begin theatrical release in Kyiv

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800

The film, Spell Your Name, which premiered in Kyiv, Ukraine in October 2006, will now be seen by wider audiences across Ukraine. Spell Your Name, a collaboration between the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, is a feature-length documentary about the Holocaust in Ukraine.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2007

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800

On Monday, January 29, the United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI) will hold a special observance for the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Among the events planned around the Day of Commemoration is a special screening for the United Nations community of two of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute\'s documentaries, Volevo solo vivere (I Only Wanted to Live), and Nazvy svoie im\'ia (Spell Your Name).