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Visiting scholars share their experiences using the Visual History Archive
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Steve Biko

Nkosinathi Biko, CEO of the Steve Biko Foundation, to give special lecture on December 18, 2008

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Spielberg and Douglas October 22, 2008
Steven Spielberg and USC Shoah Foundation Institute Honored Legendary Actor and Humanitarian Kirk Douglas

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The Viterbis October 13, 2008
Viterbi Family Foundation of the Jewish Community Foundation’s Gift to the Institute Heralds New Era of Online Educational Outreach
Preservation Effort Now Underway

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

Kim Simon, Interim Executive Director Kim Simon Named Interim Executive Director
Jacek Leociak, Corrie ten Boom scholar

August 2008
Corrie ten Boom Scholar Welcomed to USC Campus

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HOLOCAUST: The Events and Their Impact on Real People, published by DK Publishing, wins 2009 Teachers' Choice Award
The Legacy June 2008
Das Vermächtnis (The Legacy)
Erinnern.at develops educational resource based on testimony from the Institute’s archive
Encountering Memory June 2008
National Training for Educators in Ukraine
Hundreds of teachers and thousands of students are introduced to Encountering Memory
English | Українська
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May 2008
USC Shoah Foundation Institute Adopts New Strategic Plan

USHMM forum April 29 , 2008
Telling an Unfinished Story: Los Angeles teachers compare a Holocaust survivor’s diary to his video testimony a half-century later. >> VIEW VIDEO
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Attend Religious Tolerance and Intolerance from the Inquisition to the Present on April 3-4 at USC
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March 25 Screening of Behind This Convent, a Documentary Film about the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide

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Preserving Memories of the Rwandan Tutsi Genocide: Project Underway to Record Survivor Testimony
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November, 2007
USC Shoah Foundation Institute announces stipends for

USC faculty

November 26, 2007
Recollections Wins a BAFTA Award

November 19, 2007
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Makes

Institute's Holocaust Survivor and Witness Testimonies

Available to Visitors

November 16, 2007
Kyiv Training Seminar on the use of Encountering Memory in Classrooms in Ukraine Marks International Day of Tolerance

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November 3, 2007
Echoes and Reflections Holocaust Curriculum Recognized

by Peers with National Media Award

November 2, 2007
Redesigned Shoah Foundation Institute Website Goes

Online

September, 2007
Corrie ten Boom Research Awards offer visiting scholars

an opportunity to conduct research at the institute.

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August 6, 2007
FAU and LEAH Partner to Give Florida Community Access to USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Archive of Holocaust

Survivor and Witness Testimonies

Duke

June 18, 2007
RENCI Extends Visual History Archive to Duke, NC State campuses

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In association with USC SFI , DK Publishing is honored to publish HOLOCAUST: The Events and Their Impact on Real People
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May 17, 2007
Monash University partners with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute to become the first Australian University to launch

largest visual history archive

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USC Shoah Foundation Institute Honors Wallis Annenberg with the Ambassadors for Humanity Award
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April 16, 2007
Testimony to Tolerance Initiative Launched in Little Rock, Arkansas

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February 2007
Institute Executive Director Interviewed on University of

Southern California’s television show CU@USC
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February 2007
University of Minnesota Libraries Give Community Access to Archive of Holocaust survivor and witness testimonies

Spell Your Name February 7, 2007
Spell Your Name, produced by Steven Spielberg and Victor Pinchuk, to begin theatrical release in Kyiv
International Day of Memory

January 26, 2007
USC Shoah Foundation Institute to participate in

observance of International Day of Memory with film

screenings, broadcast, and launch of a new web site

FUB

December 4, 2006
Freie Universität Berlin partners with USC Shoah

Foundation Institute to become first in Europe to access Institute’s Visual History Archive

RENCI

November 21, 2006
Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) Gives UNC at

Chapel Hill Community Access to USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History Archive

Recollections launch

October 16, 2006
Institute partners with Holocaust Educational Trust in UK to launch Recollections, an educational resource for schools

in the UK

Spell Your Name Kyiv premier

October 11, 2006
USC SFI's 11th documentary, Spell Your Name, about the Holocaust in Ukraine, debuts in Kiev, at a premiere hosted

by Steven Spielberg and Victor Pinchuk

Creating Character

October 4, 2006
USC Shoah Foundation Institute to Offer Free Character Education Resource

Russian partnership August 15, 2006
USC Shoah Foundation Institute Brings Visual History to the Classroom in Russia
Volevo solo vivere

January 25, 2006
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute Presents its First

Italian - Language Documentary, Volevo solo vivere (I Only Wanted to Live)

USC

September 16, 2005
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation Becomes

a Part of the University of Southern California

Echoes and Reflections July 28, 2005
The Anti-Defamation League, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, and Yad Vashem present: Echoes and Reflections—a multimedia curriculum on the Holocaust
Surviving Auschwitz

May 9, 2005
SURVIVING AUSCHWITZ: Five Personal Journeys" Launches

on www.vhf.org