Institute News
FAU and LEAH Partner to Give Florida Community Access to USC Shoah Foundation Institute's ArchiveAugust 6, 2007Florida 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 CampusesJune 18, 2007The 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 PeopleJune 14, 2007In 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 ArchiveMay 17, 2007Monash 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 AwardApril 23, 2007Steven 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: Central Arkansas Library System Partners with USC Shoah Foundation Institute To Bring Tolerance Education Program to Little Rock Community April 16, 2007
Institute Executive Director Interviewed on University of Southern California’s Television Show CU@USCApril 2, 2007Douglas 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 February 15, 2007University 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 February 7, 2007The 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: USC Shoah Foundation Institute to participate in observance of International Day of Memory with film screenings, broadcast, and launch of a new websiteJanuary 26, 2007On 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).