What’s Inside Winter 2006

Echoes and Reflections THE NEWSLETTER OF SURVIVORS OF THE SHOAH VISUAL HISTORY FOUNDATION® 2 New multimedia curriculum on the Holocaust created by the Anti-Defamation League, the Shoah Foundation and Yad Vashem

A Southern Initiative 8 Jackson, Mississippi, acquires a collection of testimonies, and implements the Shoah Foundation’s community- based Testimony to Tolerance Initiative

The Shoah Foundation is moving to the University of Southern California. On Course with USC The Shoah Foundation becomes Please note our new contact information, starting January 1, 2006 10 the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education Leavey Library Visual History on the Horizon University of Southern California 14 A grassroots visual history 650 W. 35th Street, Suite 114 program brings testimonies to educa- tors in central and eastern Europe Los Angeles, CA 90089-2571 Main Phone: 213.740.6001

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A New Beginning Winter 2006 On the Cover By Douglas Greenberg The Shoah Foundation moves to USC, and

singular collection is a formidable undertaking of Michigan. We hope soon to extend access becomes the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for that could not have been achieved without to the full archive to as many as a dozen addi- Visual History and Education. The Institute will USC’s vision and commitment. tional institutions on the network. When the Shoah Foundation be part of the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, conducted its first test interview with a The materials in the Foundation’s archive are In addition, if funding permits, the Institute and housed on USC’s Los Angeles campus. Holocaust survivor on April 18, 1994, a race essential primary sources for scholarship and expects to be even more ambitious in develop- against time began: to capture on video as education. Like all such collections, their effec- ing educational activities and partnerships in The University of California, under this landmark agreement, guarantees the many stories as possible before it was too tiveness depends upon a dedicated community this country and in other parts of the world. perpetual preservation of the Shoah Foundation’s repository of 52,000 testimonies late. Nearly 12 years and 52,000 interviews of researchers and teachers prepared to mine This includes expanding the scope of our of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust. later, we are running yet another race against and utilize them to advance research and edu- archive to document the experiences of other groups. Just last month, we received funding The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education will uphold One hundred years from now, historians who do research to begin this process. the mission of the Shoah Foundation and advance academic research and scholar- ship in the humanities and social sciences. See articles pages 10–11. I One hundred years from now, historians who do research about our time will use video as about our time will use video as their main resource. In the Photograph by Phil Channing their main resource. In the future, the past will be visual, and as the USC Shoah future, the past will be visual. Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, we will play a critical role in time—to preserve these testimonies, not cation in a wide variety of fields. As one of the enhancing opportunities for interdisciplinary just for the present, but also for decades to great American research universities, USC research and scholarship that draw upon visual come. It is a race that consumes us. It is our offers just such a community. history sources. moral obligation and our most challenging responsibility. This development is of great significance to us. This is an extraordinary moment in our short It offers opportunities for new accomplish- history, but also a tremendous challenge. We This January, the Shoah Foundation is becom- ments that we couldn’t have exploited in any know that your support and loyalty will help Founding Chairman Board of Directors President and Chief Executive Officer ing part of the University of Southern other way. Appropriately, it coincides with the us excel in this new beginning, and beyond. I Steven Spielberg Susan Crown, Chair Douglas Greenberg California. In our new identity as the USC completion of a momentous task in the history Russel Bernard Honorary Chairs Gerald Breslauer Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History of the Foundation: the conclusion of the Edgar M. Bronfman Stephen A. Cozen Vice President for Administration and Education, we will continue to pursue our indexing of the testimonies in the archive. Renée Crown Emanuel Gerard Ari Zev mission to overcome prejudice, intolerance, It seems only natural that the programmatic Lew Wasserman Andrea Gordon In Memoriam Vice President for Partnerships and bigotry—and the suffering they cause— work of the Shoah Foundation will also shift Douglas Greenberg and International Programs Severin Wunderman through the educational use of the as the indexing comes to an end. Eric Greenberg Kim Simon Robert J. Katz Foundation’s visual history testimonies. Peter B. Kovler Vice President for Development USC, a national and international leader in the Founding Executive Directors William Lauder Steven Klappholz June Beallor Most importantly, we will know that a piece digital library field, will provide the technolog- Skip Paul James Moll of history captured through the eyewitness ical expertise to support not just the preserva- Bruce Ramer Harry Robinson accounts of Holocaust survivors and other wit- tion and use of the archive, but also its dis- Founding Advisory Committee Michael Rutman nesses will exist in perpetuity. USC will pro- semination. Electronic access to our collection Karen Kushell pastforward Alex Spanos Branko Lustig Editor Laura Grunberger vide a permanent repository for, and ensure through Internet2, a high-speed private com- Jerry Speyer newseditor @vhf.org the perpetual preservation of, the Foundation’s puter network, is currently available at USC, Douglas Greenberg Gerald R. Molen David H. Strassler Design Leslie Baker Graphic Design 52,000 testimonies. The safeguarding of this Rice and Yale universities, and the University President and Chief Executive Officer Casey Wasserman Photos Niels Alpert, Tom Szabadi, Kim Fox, Phil Channing, Zoltán Vancsó, FilmMagic, John Livzey

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Echoes and Reflections Setting a new standard for Holocaust and tolerance education

ne year ago, three leading crimes trials, the issue of guilt, and the effects because students need to know that this is is clear that this curriculum will help them organizations joined of the Holocaust on children, give a thematic something that is still going on right now— satisfy their objectives when talking about forces to undertake an perspective as well. that this is not something that’s fixed in moral issues, dilemmas, choices, how people admirable and arduous “This curriculum is phenomenal,” says history. It’s something we can talk about, and treat one another,” says Wieser. “The teachers task: to teach a new gen- teacher DeAnna K. “Being able to break up we need to talk about it today.” were excited about the possibilities and very eration of students what [the study of the Holocaust] into steps and According to Douglas Greenberg, president enthusiastic about the product.” Ocan happen when prejudice and discrimina- having ten separate lessons really provides a and CEO of the Shoah Foundation, “This is The funding for Echoes and Reflections tion are allowed to flourish, and when great framework for teachers.” Each kit con- principally a curriculum about the Holocaust, comes from Yossi Hollander and his wife, individuals, community leaders, and govern- tains all the materials high school educators but it is, by implication, not only about the Dana. Hollander, born in Haifa and the ments don’t take a stand against injustice. need to teach the complex issues of the Holocaust, not only about the past.” Greenberg son of Holocaust survivors, is a successful The result is Echoes and Reflections—a Holocaust and also support the study of world adds, “Studying the Holocaust would be an software entrepreneur in both Israel and multimedia curriculum on the Holocaust born history, English, Holocaust studies, fine arts, arid and somewhat futile thing to do if we the United States. He first broached the of an unprecedented partnership between the and character education. Echoes and Reflections didn’t draw from it lessons that we can apply idea of the collaborative project more than Anti-Defamation League, the Shoah is modular, so educators can use just one to our own lives.” one year ago and underwrote it. “I look Foundation, and Yad Vashem. lesson—or even part of a lesson—as all the Teachers are encouraged to have students for this project by drawing upon its own vast As part of the launch of Echoes and more toward the future than the past,” keep a journal during their study, and numer- pedagogical resources as well as on other Yad Reflections, the Shoah Foundation hosted a Hollander says. “I believe that Holocaust ous journal topics are provided throughout Vashem resources, such as the archives, three-day training session for 50 ADL regional education can teach not only facts, but the curriculum. Some topics are specific to library, art collection, and on-site historians. staff members. They, in turn, were charged also principles. The job of Echoes and visual history testimony, and some are specific “Clearly, this partnership signifies the impera- with a mandate: to train high school teachers Reflections is not to give answers, but to to the other primary sources also included— tive to remember and to educate about the and other educators and school administrators raise questions.” such as poetry, art, diaries, and photos. Journaling exercises prompt students to “Holocaust education can teach not only facts, but also principles. The job of reflect on what they are learning and to con- sider how the material has meaning in their Echoes and Reflections is not to give answers, but to raise questions.” — Yossi Hollander own lives and in society. To complement the curriculum, Holocaust,” shares Avner Shalev, Yad Vashem around the country on how to incorporate this To view a testimony clip from www.yadvashem.org provides teachers and chairman. “It is hoped that every pupil who resource into their coursework. Echoes and Reflections, read a sample students with additional resources, such as will study Echoes and Reflections will remem- lesson, or to order the curriculum, documents, photos, and background informa- ber this chapter of history and connect with visit www.echoesandreflections.org. I tion. This added feature allows them to delve the authentic voices of the witnesses featured as deeply as they would like into the issue and in it.” to explore other aspects of the Holocaust. “To me, the most important lesson to The Shoah Foundation provided more be taught,” expresses Abraham H. Foxman, Above: Regional staff members from the than two and a half hours of video testimonies national director of the Anti-Defamation Anti-Defamation League take part in a three- culled from its collection of 52,000 interviews. League, “is not the evil, not the ugliness, not day training session on Echoes and The integral part played by visual history testi- the brutality—we see it every day. We see how Reflections at the Shoah Foundation Rich with testimony clips from 51 activities and procedures in the curriculum are monies in the curriculum sets it apart from low mankind and humankind can sink every Center: (L to R) Yossie and Dana Hollander survivors and other witnesses, seamlessly stand-alone. other materials. Video testimonies give single day. The legacy of the Holocaust is to (donors), Avner Shalev (Yad Vashem), Douglas integrated into 10 multi-part lessons, Echoes Echoes and Reflections also helps students students an important and rare opportunity to teach the power of an individual to make a Greenberg (Shoah Foundation), and Abraham and Reflections allows students to investigate connect the study of history to contemporary connect with survivors or other witnesses to difference.” The ADL, with 30 regional offices Foxman (ADL) major themes associated with the Holocaust. issues of diversity, prejudice, and violence. “I the Holocaust. “It takes the names, dates, and in the United States, is serving as the pro- Paul Wieser, director of the Anti- Left: Echoes and Reflections contains ten The ten lessons—on topics including anti- see a lot of connections as I am going through serial numbers out of a history class and gram’s outreach arm, training teachers on the Defamation League’s Braun Holocaust Institute, multi-part lessons with a companion DVD or semitism, Nazi Germany, the ghettos, the final the curriculum, ways that I can bring in cur- makes them more real,” shares Cindy W., a use of the curriculum and working with led one such training with 30 Catholic high VHS of visual history testimonies from solution, and resistance—provide a thorough rent genocides,” says Brandi G., a 9th grade teacher in Seattle. school officials and state authorities through- school teachers from all over the country as Holocaust survivors and other witnesses historical background for this period. teacher in Washington. “It serves as a great Yad Vashem’s International School for out the nation to distribute it. part of the ADL’s Bearing Witness program. “It Additional lessons that look at liberators, war stepping stone to talk about those issues, Holocaust Studies was able to provide material

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Remembering Their Paths New Education Funds

New online exhibit follows five survivors through five continents ith a generous $25,000 dona- Laura Merage. “We emigrated from Iran know- tion from Barry Sternlicht, ing the way to extinguish intolerance around the or millions of individuals across Romania, to Cincinnati, Ohio, and ultimately a 9th grade French teacher who visited the Chairman and CEO of world is to support and promote education that Europe, the Holocaust was a to Israel. Henia Bryer was born in Poland and web exhibit. “The testimony of Freda Starwood Hotels Group, the seeks to respect differences.” catalyst for exile. Families, went to Palestine in 1946, then on to South Wineman offers a very interesting description W Shoah Foundation established the BARRY uprooted and scattered, had to Africa. Henry Oertelt’s path runs from Berlin of what it must have been like to be a young STERNLICHT EDUCATION FUND. start anew in other countries, to St. Paul, Minnesota, and French-born Freda girl growing up in prewar France.” “I grew up being very protected from the marked forever by the tragedy Wineman settled in London after the war. All According to John Roth, director of the “We emigrated from horrors of the war,” says Sternlicht, the son of that forced their exodus. five survivors have one thing in common: Center for the Study of the Holocaust, F Holocaust survivors. “My father, who gave his The life stories of diverse individuals con- They passed through the devastating epicenter Genocide, and Human Rights at Claremont Iran knowing the way testimony to the Shoah Foundation, never nected by this common experience of flight, of the Holocaust, Auschwitz. McKenna College, and historical reviewer for “Although himself a devout Catholic, Harry spoke of the war and would turn off TV shows loss, and recovery form the basis of Surviving With four hours of English-language testi- the exhibit, “The ‘before’ and ‘after’ dimen- to extinguish intolerance believed deeply that all people were equal in we might see if we passed the room. As I have Auschwitz: Five Personal Journeys, the Shoah mony video clips, more than any other online sions are covered in more detail in Surviving the eyes of God and that all religions deserved grown, I remain amazed at the ignorance and Foundation’s latest online educational exhibit. exhibit on www.vhf.org, Surviving Auschwitz Auschwitz than in most materials that are pre- around the world is to respect,” share the Wittens. “In his later years, the underlying racism and antisemitism that Organized around an interactive map of the reveals the breadth of experiences that can be pared for teaching purposes.” Harry joined with a survivor of Gunskirchen to remains today, not only in the United States but “More than is usually the case,” says support and promote meet with high school students in the greater around the world. The Shoah Foundation is the Professor Roth, “the testimonies are accompa- Albany, New York, area to speak about toler- living record of the wrong people can do. nied by historical contextualization: Viewers education that seeks ance, acceptance, and personal freedom.” Hopefully it shows man at his very worst, so are helped to understand the references that “It is our hope that by establishing this that others will never embark on programs of the survivors make to places and events…. to respect differences.” fund in his memory, we will enable others to hate and, worse, genocide, based on color, race, This [framework] will be valuable for teachers carry forward these messages that Harry or religious beliefs.” who use Surviving Auschwitz in classes that Hayes so deeply believed in.” I The Barry Sternlicht Education Fund — David and Laura Merage focus on the history and implications of the enables the Shoah Foundation to pursue a wide Holocaust.” Lesson plans and other teacher range of educational activities in public institu- resources will be available to download from Bloomingdale’s recent $15,000 donation to the tions and schools around the world. I A recent gift of $25,000 helped establish the the online exhibit. Shoah Foundation established the DAVID AND LAURA MERAGE “The testimonies not only drive home BLOOMINGDALE’S FUND OF THE FOUNDATION EDUCATION FUND, helping that there was unredeemed and unredeemable FEDERATED DEPARTMENT STORES David and Laura Merage are long-time supporters the development and distribution of anti-bias loss, they also show how people did not let FOUNDATION. of the Shoah Foundation. educational resources based on the visual history despair overwhelm them,” says Professor “Bloomingdale’s has had a long history of “As children in Iran we experienced testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other Roth. “Instead, they went on, in spite of the supporting organizations such as the Shoah first-hand the difficulty of living in a country witnesses in the Shoah Foundation archive. I odds against them, to rebuild their lives. The Foundation,” said Anne Keating, senior vice where variances in beliefs—religious or other- testimonies [in Surviving Auschwitz] are sto- president of Public Relations, Special Events, wise—were not encouraged,” share David and ries of determination. They emphasize the and Corporate Philanthropy, from the depart- “Our father and father-in-law, Harry Hayes, importance of not giving up, of not giving in, ment store’s headquarters in New York. “We was one of the young American soldiers who while at the same time underscoring the believe in their goal to overcome prejudice liberated the Gunskirchen Concentration world, Surviving Auschwitz traces the crisscross- culled from the Shoah Foundation’s archive. Holocaust's devastation.” and intolerance and to continue to educate Camp in Austria in 1945. The experience ing paths of five men and women across five The exhibit not only conveys the subjects’ per- Surviving Auschwitz: Five Personal our community on these issues. We wish fundamentally changed him,” say his continents, utilizing their video testimonies from sonal histories during the Holocaust, but also Journeys is available free of charge to educa- them continued success in all the work daughter, Elizabeth Witten, and her the Shoah Foundation archive to recount their provides interactive elements that help trace tors, students, and the general public at they do.” I husband, Richard Witten. In Hayes’ honor, extraordinary lives before, during, and after their lives before deportation and after libera- www.vhf.org/survivingauschwitz, thanks to they set up the WITTEN FAMILY the Holocaust. tion, underscoring the diversity of their cultural generous funding from Bren and Mel Simon EDUCATION FUND in Memory of Harry The exhibit follows the journey of Peter backgrounds and subsequent journeys. and Bui and Herb Simon. I R. Hayes with a gift of $30,000. Left: David and Laura Merage Hersch, born in Czechoslovakia, who after the “This presentation can give students an Above: The Witten family war moved to Sydney, Australia, where he now amazing perspective on cultures and the diver- resides. Joli Hillman-Noy’s course took her from sity of the human landscape,” says Marianne G.,

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Educational Initiatives Around the World Recovering Names UNGARY– A new Holocaust- …Memorializing Lives education kit designed specifically H for Hungarian students reached When the Central Database of Shoah every secondary school in Hungary at the Victims’ Names was uploaded onto the Yad beginning of the 2005-06 school year. Vashem website, www.yadvashem.org, in Looking Towards the Future Through the Eyes November last year, Yad Vashem announced of the Holocaust—An Educational Package for an International 11th Hour Campaign to Hungarian Schools consists of the Shoah recover as many additional names of Holocaust victims as possible, before the generation that best remembers them pass- es. An urgent call for volunteers to implement grass-roots campaigns is now being issued to Jewish communities and organizations worldwide. The Shoah Foundation has partnered with Yad Vashem in the mission to preserve the legacies of both victims and survivors of the Holocaust by providing access to its 52,000- testimony archive by 2008 at the new Visual Foundation’s Hungarian-language documen- Center at Yad Vashem (one hundred testi- tary Eyes of the Holocaust on DVD; Gyula monies are currently available to view at the Hosszú’s Roads to the Holocaust: stories about Shoah Foundation’s regional representative in “I hope that Hungarian educators will testimonies from Austrian survivors and other Austria. We anticipate more public fund- Center). At the same time, the Shoah the Holocaust, a nationally recognized scholarly Hungary, “but teachers have to design their first of all think about the role and impor- witnesses, such as Jehovah’s Witnesses, politi- ing to come from Austria, but we still Foundation urges everyone to join the cam- book; and Approaches… a comprehensive own lessons or curriculum around them. tance of Holocaust education,” states Mr. cal prisoners, and Sinti and Roma survivors. need additional support, and we are paign to recover the names and identities teacher’s guide that helps educators with Until now, they didn’t have access to Miklósi, “and then, while teaching, use vari- “Students are used to visual information actively looking for private or corporate of those who did not survive and have yet to context on how to use the film and the book resources that were created specifically for ous tools that are appropriate to students' today,” says Mr. Barnay, “and we think it’s a sponsorships to help our project come be registered in Yad Vashem’s online in a classroom setting. classroom use.” interests and needs. This is essential, as it good way to engage them not just in terms of to fruition.” I Database. László Miklósi, president of the gives students a complete picture of what learning, but also emotionally. These are real Experienced interviewers and volun- Hungarian Association of History Teachers, happened in the past—how and why—but, living people who tell about their own lives. teers—and anyone committed to ensuring conceived of and initiated the idea for the most importantly, because it prepares them This pilot is going to help us determine what that no Holocaust victim is forgotten—would kit. “Visual media and personal experiences to think critically and react to what is hap- the best educational approach is, and what the Far left: Students at Budapest’s Alternative be a significant asset to this endeavor. With are basic and definitive elements in educa- pening today: acts of intolerance, hatred, best use of testimonies is, both for teachers and Secondary School of Economics (Alternatív the aid of promotional materials developed tional practice,” he says. “That is why it was and antisemitism.” I for students.” Közgazdasági Gimnázium) watch the Shoah by Yad Vashem, volunteers will reach out to important that [the visual history testimonies The pilot DVD has been financed by the Foundation’s documentary Eyes of the survivors and their families and assist them in registering the names of men, women, in] Eyes of the Holocaust be part of the kit.” USTRIA– The Austrian organi- National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Holocaust as part of a lesson from the new and children who they know were murdered “But nothing is usable and applicable in zation Nationalsozialismus und Victims of National Socialism and by the educational kit Looking Towards the Future in the Shoah. education,” Mr. Miklósi adds, “if there is no A Holocaust: Gedächtnis und Austrian Ministry of Education, Science, and Through the Eyes of the Holocaust To request a free guide and resource appropriate didactic and methodological help Gegenwart (National Socialism and the Culture. Additional funding will be needed to Center: (L to R) Eyes of the Holocaust pack to initiate a names project in your Looking Towards the Future… is the result offered to educators. The real goal of the Holocaust: Remembrance and the Present) is finalize the DVD and distribute it to secondary director Janos Szasz, Hungarian minister of community, please send an email with the of the combined efforts of the Shoah study guide is to help teachers create their producing a Holocaust—and tolerance—edu- schools in Austria. education, Bálint Magyar, Steven Spielberg, subject heading “names campaign” to Foundation, the Hungarian Association of vision and their own approach to thinking cation DVD that will center on visual history “We want to facilitate the transmission of and Douglas Greenberg [email protected] History Teachers, and the Hannah Arendt and teaching about this topic.” testimonies from the Shoah Foundation the experiences of survivors and other wit- Above: Dr. Markus Barnay, journalist and I editor; Dr. Albert Lichtblau, University of Association. The Task Force for International archive. A team of three experts—Markus nesses to the coming generations,” says Salzburg and Dr. Maria Ecker, historian, “A lot of books, films, or documentaries Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Barnay, a film editor; History Professor Albert National Socialism and the Holocaust: research testimonies at the Shoah Foundation about the Holocaust are being used in Remembrance, and Research and the Lichtblau; and Ph.D. candidate Maria Ecker Memory and Present director Dr. Werner schools in Hungary,” says Ms. Luca Illy, the Hungarian Ministry of Education provided —spent a week at the Shoah Foundation in Dreier, “and we hope that this DVD has an the financial support for this project. Los Angeles to search the archive and identify impact on public memory and education in

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A Southern Initiative Twenty one testimonies find a home in Jackson, Mississippi

isitors at the Eudora Welty Metz, the only known Holocaust survivor still incorporate testimonies into existing lesson Library, in Jackson, residing in Mississippi. plans and other materials. Mississippi, can now Mr. Metz attended the collection-opening As part of the Initiative, the Eudora Welty access a collection of celebration at the Eudora Welty Library. He Library also hosted a monthly Lunch Lectures testimonies of Holocaust admitted to being thrilled and “quite surprised,” Series funded by a grant from the Mississippi- survivors and other saying that when the Shoah Foundation video- Humanities Council from September through witnessesV from the Shoah Foundation archive. taped his interview in 1998, he figured it would December. “The goal of the Series,” says Jamie

Studies at Millsaps College in Jackson. “In the school-wide and community-centered For further information about funding years to come, as educators begin to use the outreach (such as after-school cultural presen- a Testimony to Tolerance Initiative, please incomparable resources of the Shoah tations, campaigns, and field trips) and will contact the Shoah Foundation’s at Foundation’s testimony collection, I am confi- provide an environment for students to focus 213-740-6001. I dent that it can become a major tool for on the respect, acceptance, and appreciation honoring the memory of Holocaust victims of the diversity of all human cultures. and for teaching students at all levels about Jackson, Mississippi, is the first city to Far left & far right: Teachers, educators, and the necessity of overcoming intolerance and take part in the Testimony to Tolerance Initiative. library staff members in Jackson, learn how to use discrimination.” Des Moines, Iowa, followed, with a collection visual history testimonies as part of the Shoah The Shoah Foundation is currently work- that opened in September 2005, funded by Foundation’s on-site workshop ing with educators in Jackson, providing them James and Andrea Gordon in memory of their This page left: A workstation at the Eudora Welty with additional training and support as they fathers, Ben Schwartz and Bennet Gordon. Main Library Branch, in Jackson, Mississippi, The unveiling of this collection represented “just go into an archive that only researchers Holcomb, the Shoah Foundation educational implement student-run, Foundation-spon- With additional funding, the Testimony to where visitors can view testimonies of Holocaust the first phase of the Shoah Foundation’s can access,” and never dreamt that it would be site coordinator in Jackson, “is to introduce sored diversity clubs at their school. The Tolerance Initiative is slated to reach 14 survivors and other witnesses Testimony to Tolerance Initiative. The initiative, so widely available. the collection and use visual history to pro- clubs, called A.D.A.P.T. (Advocating Diversity mid-sized cities in the U.S., including Little Previous page right: Gilbert Metz with Carolyn funded in Jackson by the Levy-Markus mote active dialogue on race-related issues and The Testimony to Tolerance Initiative gener- and Promoting Tolerance), will carry out Rock, Arkansas, where the Shoah Foundation McCallum, executive director of the Jackson-Hinds Foundation, provides supported access to a connect Mississippi history, politics, and reli- ated a variety of activities in Jackson, with is exploring partnership opportunities. Library System subset of the archive in cities that would not a focus on school and community outreach gion to a broader discussion.” otherwise have access to this type of material. using the local collection housed at the The Testimony to Tolerance Initiative is one The Initiative is implemented in three, distinct library. In August, the Shoah Foundation held of the main regional, community-based phases. The first phase focuses on the general an on-site workshop for local teachers, educa- education programs in the United States Illustrating Diversity “As educators begin to use the incomparable resources of the Shoah Foundation's In July of 2005, middle and high school students from various Jackson Public Schools met at the Eudora Welty Library for the testimony collection, I am confident that it can become a major tool for teaching first Express It! Art Workshop. The workshop, funded through a grant from the Junior League of Jackson, was one of the first students at all levels about the necessity of overcoming intolerance and discrimination.” public events associated with the Shoah Foundation’s testimony collection in Jackson and the Testimony to Tolerance Initiative. — James E. Bowley Students at the art workshop watched clips of Holocaust public. The second phase focuses on local edu- tors, and members of the library staff. The 30 sponsored by the Shoah Foundation. “Already survivors’ testimonies from the collection, and original footage cators. And the third phase focuses on students. attendees learned how to utilize their new in its first few months, the Initiative has been from the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. Participants then The Jackson Visual History Collection—21 resource effectively—including how to identify of great benefit to the Jackson community created original artwork based on the question “What does English-language testimonies from survivors, clips of testimonies that are particularly valu- through its educational programming for diversity look like to you?” rescuers and aid providers, and other witnesses able in an educational setting; how to use youth and adults,” shares James E. 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On Course with USC capable of higher security and more effec- tive data transmission than the Internet). The Shoah Foundation becomes the USC Shoah Foundation Institute The University of Michigan joined in at the for Visual History and Education beginning of the 2005-2006 school year. The creation of the Institute at USC lays the his January, the Shoah survivors and other witnesses could still be intellectual center of the university, providing groundwork to open the archive to more Foundation becomes part of seen and heard a hundred, even a thousand, the primary undergraduate education for all than 200 Internet2-member universities. the College of Letters, Arts & years from now. Our arrangement with USC USC students. With nearly 80 majors and 50 “This is where the Shoah Foundation Sciences at the University of turns that hope into a reality.” minors to choose from, students at the College belongs. This is where the Shoah Foundation Southern California. From The University of Southern California is have access to a solid, well-rounded education will be in guaranteed perpetuity,” says Shoah now on, Survivors of the one of the top-ranked private universities in and are learning from cutting-edge researchers Foundation founder Steven Spielberg about TShoah Visual History Foundation will be the United States. The Shoah Foundation’s and renowned multidisciplinary scholars. USC. “This is the anchor that the Shoah collection is the largest digital library in the Since becoming USC College dean in Foundation needs, even more than symboli- world, and USC will use the most advanced 2000, Joseph Aoun set out to forge a strong cally, to reach out to other institutions all methods to ensure that the archive is not signature for the school. Under Aoun’s imagina- about the atrocity of the Holocaust and tors, aid providers, and other witnesses of the across the world, to disseminate 52,000 only preserved but remains accessible in tive approach and leadership in implementing genocide. The new USC Shoah Foundation Holocaust collected by the Shoah Foundation. voices that will never be silenced.” I the future. new academic initiatives, the College of Letters, Institute will position us as the leader in the Faculty began incorporating visual history testi- study of visual history, an increasingly monies in a variety of courses and discovered a important medium for humanity to record range of interdisciplinary applications for this “USC is where the Shoah Foundation belongs. It is where its past.” new resource (see article below). Far left: USC president Steven Sample and Since 2003, all students and faculty at A pilot project that began in 2003 gave Shoah Foundation founding chairman Steven the University of Southern California have USC, along with Yale University and Rice Spielberg announce the establishment of the the Shoah Foundation will be in guaranteed perpetuity. had a direct link, from their classrooms and University, electronic access to all the testi- new USC Shoah Foundation Institute for on their computers, to the nearly 52,000 monies in the Shoah Foundation archive via Visual History and Education at an event held This is the anchor that the Shoah Foundation needs, even videotaped testimonies of survivors, libera- Internet2 (a separate high-quality network at USC on October 20, 2005 more than symbolically, to reach out to other institutions all across the world, to disseminate 52,000 voices that Visual History in Action at USC A variety of departments at USC—and other will never be silenced.” — Steven Spielberg universities—have integrated visual history tes- timonies into their coursework and research since 2003. Faculty members have used the “The materials in the Foundation’s Arts & Sciences has gained in stature and Shoah Foundation testimonies as a tool or an archive are essential primary sources for recognition. Today, most of the university’s integral resource not only for teaching history, scholarship and education about the Shoah,” nonprofessional graduate programs are housed but also in disciplines such as screenwriting says Douglas Greenberg. “Like all such col- in the College, whose faculty is publishing fun- and even business writing. known as the USC Shoah Foundation Institute lections, their effective use depends upon a damental and innovative research in disciplines USC Cinema-Television Professor Mark for Visual History and Education. community of researchers and teachers pre- ranging across the life sciences, physical Harris has been using the archive since it “Our goal, from the beginning, has been pared to exploit them to advance research sciences, social sciences, and humanities. became accessible on the USC campus in to create a permanent home for the testi- and education. As one of the great American About the testimonies of Holocaust 2003 for his course Creating the Non-Fiction monies,” says Douglas Greenberg, president research universities, USC will provide just survivors and witnesses in the Shoah Film. As students watched survivors describe and CEO of the Shoah Foundation, who such a community.” Foundation archive, Dean Joseph Aoun says: their experiences, they also learned about becomes the first executive director of the USC The largest of USC’s 19 academic schools, “These profound visual testimonies have a interview techniques and storytelling. Holocaust, librarian Anthony Anderson also turns to Shoah Foundation Institute. “Our hope has the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences— tremendous educational purpose for this gen- “I was struck by how affected the stu- visual history testimonies, focusing on the many Above: Librarian Anthony Anderson uses always been that the faces and voices of the which will house the Institute—is the eration and future generations who must learn dents were by testimonies,” says Professor Dutch-related experiences available in the archive. testimonies from the Shoah Foundation archive Harris. “They find them riveting to watch, and Anderson, who has taught the course for six years, for his USC freshman seminar on Holland and usually have a lot to say about the experience.” says testimonies personalize historical events and the Holocaust. 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La Mémoire et l’Education* New Visual History Collections The new Memorial de la Shoah in Paris and Le Monde.fr embrace visual history

only to the teaching of a history that continues to haunt our daily lives, but also to provide a forum for a reflection on tolerance, freedom, and democracy.”

ESTIMONIES ON LEMONDE.FR As part of the 60th anniversary Tremembrance of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Shoah Foundation and the Memorial de la Shoah partnered to launch a special section on www.lemonde.fr, the website The Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Collections are compilations of testimonies from the archive, accessible of the leading French newspaper, Le Monde. for research, education, and general use at libraries, museums, universities, and other institutions worldwide. Collections include some, or all of the testimonies collected by the Shoah Foundation in a specific city, country, ATIONAL COLLECTION AT the length of some testimonies, visitors tend Shoah: les derniers témoins racontent (the last or language, or representing a specific set of experiences. THE MEMORIAL DE LA SHOAH to watch them in their entirety.” witnesses speak), features 27 complete, unedited The names of 76,000 French depor- “Placing the collection of French testi- video testimonies of French-speaking Holocaust N The following institutions obtained Visual History Collections in 2005 tees etched on a long wall; the voices and faces monies at the Memorial de la Shoah is a survivors, aid providers, and other witnesses. of more than 1,800 French survivors and wit- landmark event in the history of the Shoah The editors of Le Monde.fr searched the nesses of the Holocaust on computer screens.... Foundation,” shares Douglas Greenberg, Shoah Foundation Visual History Collection at North America Europe At the newly reopened Memorial de la Shoah in president and CEO of the Foundation. “The the Memorial de la Shoah in Paris to identify Calgary Jewish Community Centre Memorial de la Shoah—Centre de documentation Paris, words carved in stone and video testi- Memorial is the premier institution of 15 testimonies, and chose an additional 12 17 testimonies collected in Calgary, juive contemporaine monies come together in one location for a mis- Holocaust memory and scholarship in testimonies from the Memorial’s own collection. Alberta, Canada National Collection representing all 1,800 testimonies conducted in France and in the French language sion of remembrance and education. France; the collection is the largest Le Monde.fr is one of the top ten visited Des Moines Public Library Testimony to Tolerance Initiative site Staedtisches Museum Simeonstift Trier Spanning 15,000 square feet in the histori- European collection in the Foundation websites in France. The special section received 17 testimonies given in Iowa 13 testimonies collected with interviewees born cal Marais district of Paris, the Memorial (which archive; and the French Jewish community an average of 35,000 unique visitors each week Evansville-Vanderburgh Public Library in Trier, Germany reopened on the 60th anniversary of the libera- when it streamed the testimonies from May 115 testimonies from survivors and witnesses Archivio Centrale dello Stato tion of Auschwitz after a three-year renovation) through October. All video testimonies remain residing in Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois National Collection representing all 435 testimonies conducted features permanent exhibits, a library, an audi- accessible from the site’s home page. Jackson-Hinds Library System in Italy and in the Italian language torium, educational spaces, and a media center “It is our duty to watch these testimonies,” Testimony to Tolerance Initiative site Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, housing the Shoah Foundation Visual History shared one visitor from Rennes, in the Brittany 21 testimonies——some given in Mississippi, and a Uppsala University Collection of French testimonies. region of France. “And this goes far beyond a “Representational Collection” consisting of testimonies 49 testimonies collected in Sweden A large number of guests have visited duty of remembrance. The testimonies survivors with varied experiences (see article pages 8–9) the Memorial’s media center to watch the give us are lessons for today and tomorrow.” Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art Asia and Australia/Oceania Shoah Foundation testimonies since its All 27 testimonies are archived at www.lemonde.fr 14 testimonies given in Oklahoma Victoria University of Wellington opening: visitors eager to supplement their is the largest in Europe. These testimonies (click on pratique, then savoirs). I Forsyth Technical Community College, 58 testimonies given in New Zealand, including museum experience, researchers, and stu- not only document the horror of the experi- North Carolina testimonies given by Sinti and Roma interviewees in the *Remembrance and Education dents who come to attend the Memorial’s ence of the Shoah in France; they are also 30 testimonies——the “Representational Collection” English Language various educational workshops. The work- eloquent voices to help address the com- consisting of testimonies with varied experiences, Left: Le Mur des Noms at the Memorial de la and testimonies focusing on the experiences of shops offer an initiation to the history of the plexity of life in contemporary France.” Shoah in Paris with the names of 76,000 French American liberators Above: Ten of the fourteen survivors whose video testimonies are Holocaust through the presentation of a CD- “As the voices of witnesses are growing Jews deported during World War II Jacksonville Public Library included in the Shoah Foundation Visual History Collection at the ROM about Auschwitz and the screening of Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. quieter every day,” adds Eric de Rothschild, Center: (L to R) Eric de Rothschild, president 16 testimonies given in Jacksonville, FL a survivor testimony. Standing: (L to R) Alfred Langer, Sherman Ray, Eva Unterman, president of the Memorial, “the reopening of the of the Memorial de la Shoah, Douglas Greenberg, Northwestern University Multimedia Library Michael Guterman, Lily Guterman, Leah Lapkin, Margot Kaiser, “We are developing our workshops as a Memorial comes at a moment when our coun- 10 testimonies for online exhibit and and Jacques Fredj, Memorial director, in the and Erich Westfield; in front: (L to R) Arno Kahn, Steven Klappholz way to guide and advise visitors on ways to try, and more largely Europe, is going through a student use Memorial’s Media Center, which houses the (Shoah Foundation vice-president for Development), Gretl Neuwald choose a testimony to watch,” says Memorial tense period and racist and antisemitic turmoil. collection of all French-language video testimonies and Michelle Wiens (Sherwin Miller Museum Trustee) Director Jacques Fredj, adding that “despite The goal of the Memorial is to contribute not recorded by the Shoah Foundation.

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Visual History on the Horizon Shoah Foundation initiates grassroots visual history program Equipped with the testimonies, Mr. Smokˇ Foundation’s vice-president for partnerships met with leaders at the Goldstein-Goren and international programs. “It also ensures in central and eastern Europe Center at the Bucharest University, and the that the testimonies are really put to use in University of Craiova, in Romania, and held classrooms, as the educators involved in devel- ith funding from workshops with individual educators from the oping lessons with video testimonies are the two donor-spon- Babes-Bolyai University, of Cluj, the Al. I. Cuza ones ultimately using them.” sored education University, of Iasi, and the Romanian Institute Tatjana Matetic, a teacher from Opatia, grants, Martin for Recent History. In Croatia, he met with initiated tolerance and Holocaust education in Smok,ˇ the Shoah educators from Zagreb and Opatia, as well as Croatia with a colleague three years ago. She Buenos Aires, June 18th, 2005— Foundation’s Croatian NGOs such as the Center for believes that to be effective, any Holocaust Argentina: 790 students at the School of seniorW program consultant for central and Multidisciplinary Studies. He also presented education initiative must connect to the Policemen and Agents of the Argentine eastern Europe, is spearheading the Visual testimonies to a group of educators gathered present and address the recent wars that Federal Police participate in a seminar History Pilot Program in Croatia, Lithuania, by the International Commission for the devastated the region. According to Ms. titled Training and Reflection. Planned Romania, and Slovakia. Smokˇ met with a Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Matetic, “tolerance education must be more and developed by the Argentine Federal core group of educators in each country to Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania, an sensitive and more contemporary.” Police (Investigations of Discriminatory explore the use of visual history testimonies organization that works to combat dangerous “The Shoah Foundation’s approach in Behaviors Department) and Fundación in classrooms. stereotypes through Holocaust education. terms of its international work is unique, not Memoria del Holocausto—Buenos Aires “For many educators in central and east- “The opportunity to use visual history just because it relies on this rich archive, and Shoah Museum, the seminar’s main ern Europe, using interviews of Holocaust testimonies truly electrified the local educa- it is in so many languages,” says Mr. Smok.ˇ objective is to promote a change in the survivors recorded in their countries seemed tors,” says Mr. Smok.ˇ Cristiana Teodorescu, “It is unique because it’s not about telling our conscience of Argentinean citizens con- to be beyond reach for years,” says Mr. Smok.ˇ dean of the Faculty of Letters at the University international partners what should be done cerning tolerance, democracy, human “The Visual History Pilot Program is about to of Craiova, shared her enthusiasm after and how. It is about offering to share a rights, and mutual respect. change that.” As a part of the program, Graciela The Shoah Foundation compiled a small yet Nabel de Jinich, the Shoah Foundation’s representative set of testimonies to be allocated to “For many educators in central and eastern Europe, using inter- regional consultant in Argentina and the potential educational partners. The testimonies executive director of the Fundación reflect pre- and postwar experiences in each views of Holocaust survivors recorded in their countries seemed Memoria del Holocausto, screened country and include interviews with survivors, Algunos que vivieron (some who lived), rescuers and aid providers, and liberators. to be beyond reach for years.”— Martin Smokˇ the Shoah Foundation’s Argentinean documentary directed by Luis Puenzo. watching the personal testimony of a precious resource, while valuing the distinctive “Puenzo’s film allows viewers to Romanian survivor. “What you have here is skills and knowledge of each country.” reflect about our society today,” says Ms. Berlin, Germany, May 18, 2005— create projects that actively deal with project and acknowledged the Shoah much more than a survivor interview,” she The Visual History Pilot Program is made Nabel de Jinich. “It helps us value democ- For the third year in a row, Cornelsen prejudice and hostility toward foreign Foundation’s German-language educa- exclaimed. “This is the history of Romania possible by the generous funding of Karen and racy, by recalling the suffering brought publishing house organized the Tolerance nations, cultures, and religions. tional CD-ROM Erinnern für Gegenwart captured on tape.” Mickey Shapiro in honor of Sara and Asa about by the Nazi regime and the Wins! contest to encourage students to Tolerance Wins! is open to schools, und Zukunft as a source of inspiration. I Through regular communication between Shapiro, and the Schaeffer family. I Argentinean dictatorship. It suggests that youth clubs, and individuals 19 and under the Foundation and participants, the objective is human rights and equal rights are owed throughout Germany. The competition to explore with educators the various ways in to each and every human being, regard- focuses on the topic of persecution and Back row (L to R): Wolf-Rüdiger Feldmann which they can use visual history in a classroom less of ethnicity, origin, or religion…” exclusion. Different media can be used for (Cornelsen publishing house), Arnim Sürder setting, and to give them the tools to create their Opposite page: Romanian participants in the the projects, which range from documen- (member of the jury), Dr. Gustav Partington own testimony-based educational resources. Visual History Pilot Program workshop in front taries, videos, and soundtracks to web- (teacher of the winning students), Prof. Klaus “Relying on an informal network of local of the Bucharest Faculty of Letters, left to right: sites and photo essays. Siebenhaar (Jewish Museum Berlin), Ulrich educators and activists at a grassroots level Stefan Cristian Ionescu, Gina Pana, Anca This year’s winners were announced Kasparick (state secretary of the Ministry ensures that the resources and activity stem- Ciuciu, Cosmina Paul, Felicia Waldman, Sidonia last May at the Jewish Museum Berlin. of Education) ming from the use of testimonies of the Shoah Grama, and Mihai Chioveanu One of the winning teams, a group of Front row ( L to R): Veronika Burget (Shoah Foundation address local sensitivities and students from the Braunschweig region, Foundation), Victoria Boeck, Romy Adler, needs,” says Kim Simon, the Shoah interviewed labor camp survivors for their Andreas Kallmerten (winning students from Braunschweig)

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1. Donor and Board Member Honoring President Clinton Stephen Cozen, with wife Sandy 2. Australian donor Lee Liberman “Let us never be guilty of teaching our children to categorize others by the (right), with husband Professor Leslie Reti and daughter Berry Liberman color of their skin, the source of their creed, the nature of their politics, or 3. Viktor Pinchuk (left), underwriter their ethnic, tribal, or clan background.” —William Jefferson Clinton of the Shoah Foundation’s upcoming Ukrainian documentary, with wife 4 Elena Franchuk, and Douglas he Shoah Foundation Greenberg presented its Ambassador 4. Actor and donor Tom Cruise with for Humanity Award to Katie Holmes President William 5. Donors Neil and Robin Goldberg Jefferson Clinton at an 6. Professor Andrew Markus (right), event held in Los 1 director of the Australian Centre for Angeles on February 17, 2005. More than T the Study of Jewish Civilization at 750 guests attended the gala to support Monash University, Victoria, the work of the Shoah Foundation and Australia, with Douglas Greenberg pay tribute to President Clinton’s commit- 5 ment against racial, ethnic, and religious 7. Central and eastern European discrimination. The Ambassadors for 2 Shoah Foundation representatives Humanity Award honors individuals who Luca Illy, Anna Motyczka, Anya ˇ embody the Shoah Foundation's goals Yudkovskaya, and Martin Smok of promoting tolerance, cultural under- (L to R) with Douglas Greenberg standing, and mutual respect around (center) the world. I 6 8. Ukrainian documentary director Sergiy Bukovskiy and wife Victoria Bondar 1. President Bill Clinton receives the 2005 9. Professor Yehuda Bauer (Hebrew Ambassadors for Humanity Award from University), researching testimonies Shoah Foundation founding chairman 2 at the Shoah Foundation Steven Spielberg. 2. Brad and Anne Globe 1 3 7 3. Marc Sarosi and Lily Kanter 4. Gary and Shelly Belz 5. Phil Kent, chairman and CEO, Turner Network Television 6. Ehud Danoch (left, consul general of Israel in Los Angeles) and George Schaeffer 8

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