http://college.usc.edu/vhi All news about the Institute's international work to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry—and the suffering they cause—through the educational use of the Institute's visual history testimonies. Non-profit, research, video, education, genocide, holocaust USC Shoah Foundation Institute vhi-web@college.usc.edu http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=942 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) Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=924 The USC Shoah Foundation Institute has launched the Teacher Innovation Network, an initiative to build a nationwide community of middle- and high school teachers who are committed to the using the testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses in their classrooms (click here for information on how to join). Teacher Innovation Network members will be able to: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=904 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. Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:44:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=902 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) Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=898 SEPTEMBER 2009—SPLIT, CROATIA—The Croatian Education and Teacher Training Agency launched a national teacher training program on the use of testimony-based classroom resources on 2 September in Split.  More than 40 teachers of ethics, Croatian language and literature, history, religious education, and sociology attended a one-day seminar where they learned from their peers how to use testimony to teach about the local history of World War II by using the voices of those who lived through it. Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=883 Read the college's coverage of the event. If you missed this panel discussion at USC, you can watch a video of the event here. Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=864 “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.” Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=805 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. Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=859 In spring 2009, more than 5,000 middle school and high school students participated in the 10th Annual Holocaust Art and Writing Contest at Chapman University in Orange, California. Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=841 Institute announces a program of stipends for USC faculty. Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=809 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). Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:02:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=808 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. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:53:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=802 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. Fri, 29 May 2009 14:06:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=803 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. Fri, 29 May 2009 13:53:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=774 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) Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=767 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) Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=763 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. Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=678 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. Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:44:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=669 Sunday, February 22, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute presented a screening of its most recent documentary, Spell Your Name, followed by a discussion panel. Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=536 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. Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=619 See video of their presentations and interviews. Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=632 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. Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=540 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. Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=541 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. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=638 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. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=679 Hundreds of teachers and thousands of students are introduced to Encountering Memory English | Українська Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=647 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. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=542 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). Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=724 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. Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=725 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. Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=726 Attend Religious Tolerance and Intolerance from the Inquisition to the Present on April 3-4 at USC view press release Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=727 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. Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=728 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. Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=729 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. Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=730 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. Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=731 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. Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=732 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. Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=733 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. Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=734 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. Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=735 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. Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=736 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. Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=737 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. Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=738 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. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=745 Monash University today, announced the Australasian launch of the largest visual history archive in the world. Thu, 17 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=746 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. Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=747 LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS – April 16, 2007 –The Central Arkansas Library System in Little Rock, Arkansas, in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, announces the launch of the Testimony to Tolerance Initiative in Little Rock and the surrounding communities of Central Arkansas. The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, L’Oreal USA, Inc., and the Jewish Federation of Arkansas provided funding for this project. Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=748 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. Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=749 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. Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=750 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. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://college.usc.edu/vhi/pr_story/?nid=751 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). Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0700