News for 2015
New Dimensions in Testimony, USC Shoah Foundation’s project with Conscience Display to record three-dimensional, interactive testimonies of Holocaust survivors, is set to expand in a big way.
/ Friday, September 25, 2015
Musicologist Janie Cole will discuss how “freedom songs” provided an oppressed community with political expression, resistance, therapy, identity, memory and resilience to confront potential violence and death.
/ Thursday, September 24, 2015
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.”
/ Thursday, September 24, 2015
USC Shoah Foundation Senior International Program Consultant Martin Šmok has begun teaching a yearlong course at the Ronald Lauder Jewish School in Prague to introduce students to the Visual History Archive and testimony.
/ Wednesday, September 23, 2015
A new exhibit on the USC Shoah Foundation website takes a closer look at the stories of refugees during World War II. It is inspired by the current refugee crisis in Europe.
/ Tuesday, September 22, 2015
In an effort to create a deeper engagement with educators online, USC Shoah Foundation’s educational website IWitness hosts monthly Twitter chats.
/ Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Students can now get even more creative with their IWitness Information Quests.
/ Monday, September 21, 2015
Заснований Стівеном Спілбергом Фонд Шоа зберігає тисячі відеосвідчень про Голокост. Фонд Шоа створив Стівен Спілберг після того, як зняв фільм «Список Шиндлера». Сьогодні колекція нараховує 53 тисячі відеосвідчень. Про збереження пам'яті розповідає Анна Ленчовська, українська координаторка Інституту візуальної історії та освіти Фонду Шоа (університет Південної Каліфорнії, США).
/ Monday, September 21, 2015
Musician and music scholar Alexandra Birch will discuss the resistance demonstrated by one of the 20th century’s most renowned composers, Dmitri Shostakovich, in her presentation at the Music as Resistance to Genocide academic symposium.
/ Friday, September 18, 2015
While guests of the 2015 Ambassadors for Humanity Gala on Sept. 10 trickled into the Henry Ford Museum and enjoyed a cocktail reception before dinner began, a small group of high school students was hard at work.
/ Thursday, September 17, 2015

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