Winter 2007

THE NEWSLETTER OF THE USC SHOAH FOUNDATION INSTITUTE FOR VISUAL HISTORY AND EDUCATIONTM

TO OVERCOME PREJUDICE, INTOLERANCE, AND BIGOTRY —AND THE SUFFERING THEY CAUSE— THROUGH THE EDUCATIONAL USE OF THE INSTITUTE’S VISUAL HISTORY TESTIMONIES F OUNDATION N EWS

One Year Later Winter 2007 By Douglas Greenberg

partnering with the Institute to provide access to the archive on their campuses (see pages 10–11). One year ago, we began a new chapter by becoming part of the University The testimonies in the archive are also at the of Southern California College of Letters, core of two educational products launched Arts & Sciences. Being part of a great uni- this year, Recollections: Eyewitnesses Remember versity has allowed us to pursue our mission the Holocaust and Creating Character. In each with new energy and effectiveness. I am product, the testimonies provide rich, pri- especially excited to share the contents of mary source material that brings the past to this newsletter with you because it tells the life for young people to whom it is distant story of our first year at USC. and remote. “Being on a campus has provided us a way to introduce visual history to the classroom more directly than ever before.” — Douglas Greenberg

Being on a campus has provided us a way to These projects would not be possible without introduce visual history to the classroom the generous funding the Institute receives more directly than ever before. The Visual from our donors. Your gifts allow educators History Archive is in use in undergraduate and students all over the globe to use the tes- classes not only at USC, but also at other timonies in our archive for educational pur- institutions with access to the archive—Rice poses. This year, we conducted our first inter- University, Yale University, and the national workshop on visual history in the University of Michigan. Students on each of classroom with five educators from Russia. these campuses are being exposed to visual We hope, with your support, to conduct simi- history testimonies in a variety of classes lar workshops for an increasing number of across many disciplines, including anthropol- educators from all parts of the world. ogy, film, law, and psychology. Generous support from partners also enabled Providing access to the entire archive at uni- us to produce two documentary films that versities around the world is possible because premiered in 2006. Volevo solo vivere (I Only of Internet2, a high-capacity network created Wanted to Live) premiered in Rome and was to allow educators, researchers, and scholars subsequently screened at the 2006 Cannes to share large amounts of data efficiently. As Film Festival. Since then, it has appeared at you will read in these pages, universities that many film festivals around the world and will are a part of the Internet2 community—or continue doing so this spring. Nazvy svoie its variants in Europe and Australia—are im’ia (Spell Your Name), a film about the

USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and EducationTM www.usc.edu/vhi Save the Date

allis Annenberg will be honored at the W Institute’s Ambassadors for Humanity dinner on Monday, April 23, 2007 in Los Angeles, hosted Holocaust in Ukraine, premiered in October by Jerry Seinfeld. The award honors individuals who in Kyiv, to an audience of nearly 2000, embody the Institute’s goals of promoting toler- including Ukrainian President Viktor ance, cultural understanding, and mutual respect around the world. Please Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor mark your calendars and plan to join us as we honor Wallis Annenberg for Yanukovich. It, too, will appear in many film her remarkable record as a community leader and philanthropist. For fur- festivals over the course of the next year. ther information, please contact Steven Klappholz at 213-740-6051.

We are also beginning to expand our archive Wallis Annenberg (center), with Douglas Greenberg (left), and Steven and to think about how to document more Spielberg (right), will be honored at the Ambassadors for Humanity dinner recent genocides. In June, I traveled to on April 23, 2007. Rwanda to meet with survivor organizations and government agencies that wish to record survivor testimony. This year, I will return to Rwanda to begin planning a project that we hope will do for the Rwandan genocide what the Shoah Foundation Institute has done for the Holocaust.

In the year ahead, with your help, we will continue to develop educational products BOARD OF COUNCILORS EXECUTIVE STAFF pastforward and programs and deliver the testimonies in Steven Spielberg Executive Director EDITOR our archive to the broadest possible audi- Honorary Chair Douglas Greenberg Talia Cohen Edgar M. Bronfman [email protected] ence. Thank you for your continued support Honorary Co-chair Kimberly Bonheim MANAGING EDITOR and loyalty, which guide us each day toward Renée Crown Birbrower, Director of Kim Simon Honorary Co-chair Education DESIGN work that fulfills our mission. Leslie Baker Graphic Design Lew Wasserman Sam Gustman, Chief Honorary Co-chair COVER CONCEPT Technology Officer Michael Wong, Kelvin Tso In Memoriam PHOTOS

Karen Jungblut, Director Phil Channing, Talia Cohen, Wallis Annenberg ˆ of Archival Access and Juan Guerra, S. Peter Lopez, Russel Bernard Kim Simon, Martin Smok, Gerald Breslauer Special Projects Péter Tálas Jerome Coben INSTITUTE SIGNATURE DESIGN Steven Klappholz, Rick Simner Stephen Cozen Executive Director of Susan Crown Development © 2007 USC Shoah Foundation David Eisman Institute; University of Southern Phyllis Epstein Kim Simon, Director California Emanuel Gerard of Partnerships and Andrea Gordon International Programs FOUNDING EXECUTIVE Douglas Greenberg DIRECTORS OF THE Ari Zev, Director of Eric Greenberg SHOAH FOUNDATION Administration Yossie Hollander June Beallor Robert Katz James Moll William Lauder FOUNDING ADVISORY Douglas Greenberg Lee Liberman COMMITTEE OF THE Executive Director Skip Paul SHOAH FOUNDATION Bruce Ramer Professor of History Karen Kushell Harry Robinson Branko Lustig Michael Rutman Gerald R. Molen Jerry Speyer Erna Viterbi Casey Wasserman Harold Williams

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Bringing Visual History to Russian Classrooms Institute conducts its first international workshop with Russian educators

he 20th century abounds in than 7000 Russian-language testimonies. The educators returned to Russia to continue “ examples of hatred, bigotry, Participants searched for testimonies that building lessons, which they will integrate into and acts of prejudice. The relate to the topics they teach, including con- their teaching for the spring 2007 semester. USC Shoah Foundation flict mediation, history, and psychology, and “We will share our experiences at this work- Institute’s work is concerned began incorporating the selected testimonies shop with other educators in our schools and Twith the possibility that the 21st century will into lessons. our region of the country, so that more stu-

be more of the same. Will we again turn out Goldenberg explained, “The workshop dents are exposed to the testimonies as part to be bad students of history? Will we again introduced us to the use of visual history testi- of their education,” said Shakhova. “The testi- step onto that same rake? The beginning of monies in the classroom and inspired me to monies are a powerful way to introduce topics this century shows that we might.” think about how I might incorporate visual of hatred and racism, and also tolerance and These were thoughts shared with the history into my teaching. I will use these testi- respect for others.” USC Shoah Foundation Institute staff by monies when I teach world history and the Workshops like this provide educators the Mikhail Goldenberg, one of five teachers from history of Russia. ” opportunity to learn about and incorporate Russia who participated in the Institute’s first The Visual History in the Classroom work- visual history into their classrooms. To support international workshop for educators on the shop was made possible through generous more educational workshops, please contact use of visual history in the classroom. contributions from the Schaeffer Family Steven Klappholz at [email protected], In partnership with the Russian Research Foundation, Anne Feeley and Jonathan or 213-740-6051. and Educational Holocaust Center in Zimmerman, and the Henry M. Jackson Moscow, the Institute recruited teachers to Foundation. “It is important for the USC Above: (L to R) Elena Belenkaya views

attend a weeklong conference in Los Angeles. Shoah Foundation Institute not only to collect Russian-language testimony; Mikhail In addition to Goldenberg, who hails from Russian-language testimonies but also to make Goldenberg searches for ˆ testimony for his class- Petrozavodsk, participants included Elena them available for students in Russia, and the room lessons; Martin Smok, Senior Program Belenkaya from Moscow, Svetlana right people to deliver those testimonies are Consultant for Central and Eastern Europe, Gorbacheva from Kaliningrad, Irina Lapina Russian teachers,” said Douglas Greenberg, with Svetlana Gorbacheva, Elena Belenkaya, from St. Petersburg, and Elena Shakhova Executive Director of the Institute. “This work- Elena Shakhova, Mikhail Goldenberg, Crispin from Vladimir. shop is one step toward providing Russian Brooks, Curator of the Institute’s Visual History The workshop presented educators with educators with the tools necessary to use testi- Archive, and Irina Lapina; Svetlana the opportunity to explore the Institute’s monies effectively in their classrooms. We are Gorbacheva views testimony. Visual History Archive, which contains more grateful to have received funding from generous supporters who share this vision with us.”

USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and EducationTM www.usc.edu/vhi Looking toward the Future Polish Holocaust education experts visit Institute

ith support from narratives. Watching testimonies allows us Institute donor to relate the past to present, to find small Edward J. Phillips, things in our lives that link us with sur- a team of Polish vivors and witnesses to the Holocaust.” Holocaust education Szuchta was also struck by the emotions Wexperts visited the USC Shoah Foundation conveyed in each testimony. “Interviewees’ Institute in August. The group included voices broke; they cried; they gestured, and Marek Kucia, professor of sociology at the they looked directly at the camera. It was Jagiellonian University of Krakow; Robert intense, and as a viewer, I connected with Szuchta, history teacher at LXIV High School these stories in a way I couldn’t through in Warsaw; Piotr Trojanski,´ professor of histo- text,” he explained. ry at the Pedagogical Academy of Krakow; The project was born when Phillips, a and Anna Motyczka, the Institute’s Regional indifference and some aversion, even instances supporter of the Institute, expressed interest Consultant in Poland. of anti-Semitism. in bringing visual history materials to stu- The team discussed findings of research The proposed educational kit would be dents in Poland. It is only since 1999 that on the state of Holocaust education in Poland. based upon an existing curriculum developed Holocaust education has been mandatory They also discussed the possibility of creating, by Trojanski´ and Szuchta, in use in Polish in middle and high school curricula, and the in partnership with the Institute and the schools since 2000. The team hopes to develop number of lessons and amount of time Auschwitz State Museum, a comprehen- sive educational kit for “Watching testimonies allows us to relate the past to present, to distribution to teachers find small things in our lives that link us with survivors and wit- throughout Poland. Kucia’s research nesses to the Holocaust.” — Anna Motyczka, Institute Regional Consultant in Poland findings indicate that 94 percent of history teachers surveyed believe a new kit, a practical guide for teachers framed devoted to Holocaust education is at the the Holocaust is a very important or impor- by and completely integrated with video seg- discretion of individual teachers or schools. tant topic to teach. Teachers in rural and small ments from the Institute’s archive. “In Poland,” said Trojanski,´ “the use of town schools showed particular interest in the The kit would encourage Polish students to visual media is a new approach, and I believe topic. However, additional findings show that ask—and seek answers to—fundamental ques- it will bring students closer to history.” while the attitudes toward teaching about Jews tions about the Holocaust in Polish history and the Holocaust among teachers are gener- and contemporary life. Above: (L to R) Douglas Greenberg, ally positive, there is also a fair amount of Trojanski,´ Szuchta, Kucia, and Institute Executive Director, with Edward J. Motyczka spent several weeks at the Phillips, Institute supporter. Institute’s offices in Los Angeles Left: Guests and Institute staff share a meal. exploring the archive to identify testi- (standing, L to R) Margee Greenberg; monies that might be used in the kit. Sherry Bard, Associate Director, Partnerships Viewing testimony had an emotional and International Programs; Douglas impact; Motyczka explained, “We Greenberg, Institute Executive Director; and may understand a lot about the past Kimberly Birbrower, Director of Education. from history books; we may learn (seated, L to R) Marek Kucia; Kim Simon, about facts and understand the rea- Director, Partnerships and International sons of historical events. But from Programs; Anna Motyczka; Robert Szuchta; textbooks, we learn very little about and Piotr Trojanski.´ ordinary life and read few personal

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Recollections: Eyewitnesses Remember the Holocaust Holocaust Educational Trust partners with Institute to launch resource for UK students

n October, the USC Shoah Foundation Witness survivors, Institute, in partnership with the survivors of the Nazi Holocaust Educational Trust (HET), eugenics policies, libera- launched Recollections: Eyewitnesses tors, and rescuers and Remember the Holocaust, an interactive aid providers. DVD, in the United Kingdom. “Recollections: IRecollections is the first resource the Institute has Eyewitnesses Remember created specifically for schools in the United the Holocaust is a Kingdom; it is geared toward students 16 years groundbreaking resource and older studying citizenship, history, or reli- that will enable students gious studies and is also appropriate for use in to engage dynamically English and media studies classes. with visual history testi- Recollections uses testimony from the mony through a range of Institute’s Visual History Archive to explore interactive on-screen five themes: beginnings, choice, belief, loss, activities that demon- and afterwards. Students are asked to watch strate the relevance of the different segments of testimony that explore Holocaust today,” said Rachel Burns, Senior London. Following the launch, the HET Education Consultant at the HET. “This conducted a series of training courses for resource will ensure that, for generations to teachers, focusing on issues related to teach- come, survivors continue to convey their expe- ing the Holocaust and its lessons for today, riences directly to young people, so they will and on the use of videotaped survivor testi- understand and learn about the dangers of mony in the classroom. Distribution of the prejudice and racism and where they can DVD and integration into the classroom is lead. We hope that by next year, every sec- scheduled to begin in the next academic year. ondary school in the UK will be using this Major funding for Recollections was pro- unique and innovative resource when vided by the Pears Family Charitable Trust, teaching about the Holocaust and its the Hite Foundation, David Di Donatello, contemporary significance.” Norman and Joyce Freed, Michael and The HET was established in 1988 to Ruth Phillips, Richard Ross, and John and educate young people from every ethnic Susan Burns. each theme. Then, students are encouraged to background about the Holocaust and the explore the different meanings and implica- important lessons to be learned for today. Above: Harry Bibring (center), a Holocaust tions of each theme—including how the theme The HET works in schools, universities, and survivor featured in Recollections, views the is manifested in their own lives—through a in the community to raise awareness and new educational resource with two students series of interactive student activities. The five understanding of the Holocaust, providing from the Pimlico School in London. thematic lessons can be taught separately, or teacher training, an outreach program for Left: Pimlico School students pause for a photo used together in a larger classroom unit. schools, teaching aids, and resource material. with, from left, Douglas Greenberg, Institute Eighteen testimonies are included in the In October, Institute Executive Director Executive Director; Harry Bibring, a resource, including testimony from Jewish sur- Douglas Greenberg attended the launch event Holocaust survivor; and Solicitor General Mike vivors, Roma and Sinti survivors, Jehovah’s for Recollections at the Pimlico School in O’Brien MP at the launch of Recollections.

USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and EducationTM www.usc.edu/vhi Creating Character Institute provides educators with new online resource

his fall, the USC Shoah ment. From a pool of nationally recognized Programs and Partnerships, at the Character Foundation Institute character education traits, the Institute Education Partnership. “Teachers will be launched a new online educa- elected to address the themes of courage, pleased that so much thought has gone into tional product, Creating responsibility, respect, citizenship, justice creating the resource in alignment with Character. The resource, and fairness, and perseverance. national standards. The visual history testi- which is The first-person accounts from Holocaust monies share stories of triumph and tragedy, Tavailable for teachers at survivors and witnesses that are at the core of and in each story, character is revealed. http://www.usc.edu/vhi/creat- Creating Character will help students Creating Character harnesses the power of explore these character traits in depth. visual history as a teaching tool for young peo- “We hope Creating Character ple.” The Character Education Partnership’s will be a valuable resource for educators seeking to bring character education into the classroom,” said Douglas Greenberg, Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute. “The testimonies contained in Creating Character allow students to see the charac- ter

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cational website, http://www.character.org, provides a link to Creating Character. Funding to develop Creating Character was provided by the Maxine and Jack Zarrow ingcharacter, Family Foundation and the Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation. The Leo Rosner Foundation provided funding to make the resource available online. “At the Leo Rosner Foundation, we are excited to support the dis- traits in action and encourage them to tribution of Creating Character to educators, engage with the mat- teachers, and students,” explained William erial at a level and in a fashion that matters to Robbins, President of the Leo Rosner incorporates streaming video testimony from the them intellectually and personally.” Foundation. “We think this free online Institute’s archive into down The Character Education Partnership, resource will be a valuable tool that will help loadable character education lessons. based in Washington, D.C., is a national students develop core ethical values and Creating Character contains a series of eight advocate for and leader in the character become responsible citizens.” multimedia classroom lessons that educators education movement. “Creating Character is a To learn more about supporting the may use, individually or collectively, with stu- tremendous resource, unique because of the Institute’s online exhibits, please contact dents ages 13 through 18. Each lesson explores inclusion of testimonies from the Institute’s Steven Klappholz at 213-740-6051. the importance of positive character develop- archive,” said Paul Weimer, Director, Left: A downloadable lesson plan from Creating Character focuses on one of the character education traits: citizenship.pastforward, Winter 2007 5 Center: Survivor Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt’s tes- V ISUAL H ISTORY IN THE C LASSROOM

National Science Foundation Funds Study That Invites Maryland Educators to Search the Archive

he USC Shoah Foundation In August, the Institute, in partnership Institute is one of six pri- with the NSF and the University of mary participants in the Maryland, conducted a workshop for edu- Multilingual Access to cators as part of the MALACH study. Large Spoken Archives Eight educators from Maryland high project (MALACH), a schools searched a subset of testimonies five-yearT project funded by a grant from the with a dual purpose: first, to evaluate the National Science Foundation (NSF). speech recognition program as they used it The goal of the MALACH project is to to search, and, second, to find testimony develop a state-of-the-art speech recognition segments to incorporate into their class- program that can accurately record and tran- room lessons. Participants’ feedback about scribe spontaneous, emotional, and heavily the ease and effectiveness of performing of the five-day workshop, each teacher began accented speech in multiple languages. The searches using the transcripts produced by the to develop lesson plans to implement and project team used the Institute’s Visual History speech recognition program will help the team share with their colleagues. Archive to study the accuracy of the speech further refine their program. recognition program. Sherri Levi, a teacher of ninth grade U.S. Above: Participants in the MALACH project. “Spontaneous speech, in multiple languages history, attended the workshop. “Many stu- (L to R): Sam Gustman, Chief Technology and dialects, is one of the hardest but most dents have difficulty relating to history,” she Officer for the Institute; Douglas Ballman, prevalent types of content on the Internet and in explained. “They don’t feel they have anything Manager of Online Archival Access for the our general communications systems today,” said in common with someone who lived 60 years Institute; Bhuvana Ramabhadran, IBM; Sam Gustman, Chief Technology Officer for ago. The testimonies are so valuable because as David Doehrman, University of Maryland; the Institute. “The Institute’s archive contains students watch and listen to a survivor speak Bill Byrne, Cambridge University & Johns 120,000 hours of this type of information, mak- about his or her life before, during, and after Hopkins University; Doug Oard, University of ing it extremely suitable to test the speech the war, they get a glimpse of the survivor’s Maryland; and Dagobert Soergel, University recognition program.” entire life and better understand that they do of Maryland. have things in common.” At the conclusion

Next Stop for Testimony to Tolerance Initiative: Little Rock, Arkansas

Recent major gifts large. The Institute has already implemented the Testimony to have enabled the Tolerance Initiative in Jackson, Mississippi and Des Moines, Iowa. USC Shoah With a generous grant of $90,740 from the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation Foundation, a $30,000 pledge from L’Oréal USA, and a pledge of Institute to bring $15,000 from the Jewish Federation of Arkansas, the USC Shoah the Testimony to Foundation Institute will commence work on the project with the Tolerance Initiative delivery of the Little Rock Visual History Collection to the Central to Little Rock and Arkansas Library System in spring 2007. its surrounding “L’Oréal USA has a deep commitment to programs that foster tol- communities in erance and diversity,” said Pamela Alabaster, Senior Vice President central Arkansas. of Corporate Communications, at the company headquarters in New The initiative provides mid-size cities in the U.S. with local collec- York. “We are proud to be a part of this unique program and to tions from the Visual History Archive, workshops for educators, and assist in bringing the much needed educational resources of the extensive outreach to students, parents, and the community at USC Shoah Foundation Institute to the Little Rock community.”

USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and EducationTM www.usc.edu/vhi Echoes and Reflections Full Visual Histories available at http://tc.usc.edu/vhiechoes

ne year after launching Outreach to Educators Echoes and Reflections,an IN JULY, ADL, along with educational kit the USC Yad Vashem and the Shoah Foundation Institute, hosted 50 educa- Institute developed in tors and ADL staff, all of partnership with the whom have used Echoes and O Anti-Defamation Reflections in their work League (ADL) and with students and other Yad Vashem, the educators, at a workshop in Institute created a New York. The training web resource workshop is just one of the to comple- many workshops, trainings, ment the and presentations that have curriculum been held for educators and conducted several workshops around the United States with educators eager to work with the product. by ADL’s network of regional offices. Full Visual Histories Kim Klett, a conference IN JUNE, the USC Shoah Foundation THIS SUMMER, the USC Shoah Foundation attendee, teaches a semester-long course about Institute conducted a workshop about the Institute launched Echoes and Reflections: Full the Holocaust that draws 150 students a year. Echoes and Reflections curriculum and the use Visual Histories, a web page that adds to the “The Echoes and Reflections curriculum pro- of visual history in the classroom. The work- rich resources contained in the Echoes and vides a huge value to my existing course,” shop was part of a four-day conference, Reflections educational kit. Institute supporters Klett said, now in her sixth year of teaching Teaching the Holocaust to Future Generations: Dana and Yossie Hollander funded the original the elective class. “I use the testimony seg- Special Conference for Educators, hosted by Yad Echoes and Reflections curriculum as well as the ments throughout the semester; for example, Vashem in Jerusalem, Israel. Chaim Singer- new Full Visual Histories web resource. my students read the story of survivor Kristine Frankes, Associate Director of Archival Access Full Visual Histories provides students and Keren and were in awe to then hear her voice and Special Projects for the Institute, led an teachers access to the complete testimonies of and see her face when I played her testimony. introductory workshop on the use of visual his- 51 Holocaust survivors and other witnesses, The new Full Visual Histories website is fantas- tory in the classroom. Following the work- clips of whose testimonies are featured in tic because it makes deeper learning possible shop, Singer-Frankes and Richelle Budd Echoes and Reflections. “In the first year of use, for my students. They can watch the full tes- Caplan, Director of the Asper International we are finding that students often connect timony of Kristine or another survivor right Holocaust Studies Program at Yad Vashem, emotionally to one or more survivors or wit- in the classroom.” Klett attended the work- led attendees through an overview of Echoes nesses,” said Kimberly Birbrower, Director of shop in New York to share her experiences and Reflections, and participants had an Education for the Institute. “They are struck using the curriculum over the past year and opportunity to work through one of the 10 by something the interviewee says; the words to learn more about the new Full Visual modular lessons. resonate with them, and they want to hear Histories web resource. more from and learn more about this particu- lar person. The Full Visual Histories web page allows them to view the entire testimony and, To learn more about purchasing Echoes and with basic biographical information about the interviewee, helps them better learn about the Reflections for the classroom, visit the product’s dimension and details of this person’s life.” web page, http://www.echoesandreflections.org.

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Memory and History Students compare historical accounts of the Holocaust with personal narratives am inspired when I hear Holocaust In the second part of the course, “ survivors speak about miracles. To be students completed group research able to describe something as mirac- projects for which they selected testi- ulous, in the midst of such suffering, mony segments related to a specific is amazing,” said Raheem Parpia, a theme of their choosing. Parpia and student in Memory and History: Video his group were interested in miracles TestimoniesI of the Holocaust, a seminar taught by and dreams, while other groups USC Professor and Institute Executive Director focused on love and sex during the Douglas Greenberg last fall. Holocaust, civilian aid providers, the Parpia and two classmates, Kathrina liberation of Dachau, and Amon Sarmiento and Vicki Yang, explored the theme Goeth, Commandant of the concen- of miracles and dreams. They searched the tration camp at Plaszow. Emily archive and found many survivors speaking Intersimone, whose group searched about the topic. They listened to survivors for testimony segments about civilian aid Above: Garrett Luk views testimony from the providers, said that weav- Visual History Archive. ing testimony into the Left: Steven Spielberg, seated center next to course helped her better Douglas Greenberg, attended a class session dur- relate to a difficult sub- ing which groups presented their final projects on ject, in part because see- topics, including Love and Sex During the ing a survivor’s face and Holocaust, Miracles and Dreams, and listening to his or her Civilian Aid Providers. story made it more per- Below: Two students in the Memory and sonal. “The testimony History seminar listen to testimony from brought an emotional Holocaust survivors and witnesses. truth that textbooks can’t,” Intersimone explained. During the final weeks of the course, students describing dreams about survival, dreams presented their projects to the class. about the luxury of eating their favorite foods, Greenberg said teaching a class in or about miracles that kept them alive. which visual history played a major role In the first part of the course, students reminded him of the differences examined historical texts about the Holocaust, between how students learn today and including Rethinking the Holocaust, by Yehuda how they learned in past generations. Bauer; Collected Memories: Holocaust History “This generation of students has a skill and Postwar Testimony, by Christopher R. set that previous generations did not. Browning; Reading the Holocaust, by Inga Learning to use a mouse and to manip- Clendinnen; and The Holocaust: A History, ulate materials on a computer screen is by Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt. part and parcel of their education, like Concurrently, students viewed survivor and learning to read. I believe it affects the other witness testimony from the Institute’s way today’s students learn and express archive and engaged in discussion about the themselves, and I think these are skills similarities and differences between how his- that colleges and universities ought to torians write about the Holocaust and how be thinking about nurturing more in witnesses remember it. the future.”

USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and EducationTM www.usc.edu/vhi Racism/Antiracism Hungarian university course incorporating testimonies continues to draw strong interest

hen a living per- difficult to stop students from questioning and see these films and watch testimony.” “ son is telling me discussing in order to move on with the next Over the course of four years, the class has that this hap- part of class. The testimonies trigger the changed very little, though this year brought pened to him, students’ questions—watching an interview one significant change. “This year, we made a that this is how creates a charged atmosphere. This is not a change in the methodology,” said Mérei. “We he survived or common thing in Hungarian education.” stop the interviews at certain points mid- wasW rescued, it has an elemental strength. The testimonies Mérei refers to are those interview to discuss what we just listened to. These people could walk on the street with from the Institute’s archive, which are central This forces students to be more attentive and

me, and I would not know what they have to the course curriculum. Testimony segments to rethink what they see and hear several times been through. This says to me that this can from survivors and other witnesses are viewed as we continue to watch and pause the inter- happen to anybody, to ordinary people. These in every class session and are often followed view. It is more interactive.” people could have been my grandmother or by a historian’s or an expert’s lecturing on a In the future, Barcy and Mérei will spend grandfather.” specific theme. “Without first watching testi- more class time on what can be done to combat Andrea Scheili shared these thoughts mony,” said Barcy, “I believe students would racism today. Said Barcy, “I’d like to strengthen recently with USC Shoah Foundation ask no questions of a guest speaker; they the link between the interviews and current Institute Regional Consultant in Hungary, would just listen to him or her speak. The dilemmas in the world. The class will focus Luca Illy. Scheili is a college student at Eötvös interviews inspire the questions and provide more on the lessons students can draw from the Loránd University (ELTE) in Hungary, who a foundation from which the students testimonies that apply to their own lives and on is enrolled in the class Racism/Antiracism. become engaged.” the decisions they must make each day.” Now in its fourth year, the class is popular Another student in the class, Zsófia Lénárt, among students at the Hungarian university. described the effect of watching a testimony. Left: Andrea Scheili is a student enrolled in the “Students in class this year told me they tried “At the first session, when we watched Eyes of Racism /Antiracism class at ELTE University to enroll last year, but the course, an elective, the Holocaust, I was struggling with my tears. in Hungary. filled up too quickly,” said Professor Magdolna I could not really speak. Then during the Center: “I have never focused on the Holocaust,” Barcy. “This, to me, is one sign of success.” second session, when we watched a testimony, said Zsófia Lénárt, another student in the class. “The students behave differently in this I could hardly speak, again. I had many “I knew it was an immense genocide and that a class than they do in their other classes,” con- thoughts and questions, not during the course lot of people died. But the number of 6 million tinued Barcy. “They are enthusiastic. They ask but after, when I got home. The most impor- was not known to me. It is nearly the population questions.” Anna Mérei, who teaches the tant thought I had was that everybody should of Hungary.” class with Barcy, concurred: “Very often, it is Right: Professor Magdolna Barcy has taught the Racism /Antiracism class for four years.

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Expanding Frontiers Freie Universität Berlin first in Europe to access Visual History Archive

ur goal is simple,” broadens the opportunities for research on work in the country in which they are located, “ explained USC Shoah National Socialism, particularly on the may collaborate with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute Holocaust and on racial persecution, and helps Foundation Institute to access the Visual Executive Director us to intensify the culture of remembrance. History Archive. Douglas Greenberg. History consists not only of facts and figures, A 2003 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon “We must ensure that but also of individual ways of life and personal Foundation enabled the Institute to complete Othe largest number of students in the largest destiny—precisely what the archive documents. a pilot program of access to the archive via number of countries have the broadest possible It opens completely new and additional Internet2. Under the auspices of the pilot, the access to the largest number of testimonies.” resources for the numerous research and teach- Institute provided archival access to students ing projects in the respective academic fields at our university.” Friends of Freie Universität Berlin, a not- for-profit charitable organization located in New York City, was instrumental in creating the collaborative partnership between the USC

and faculty at Rice University and Yale With the vast majority of the nearly 52 University, in addition to access already provid- thousand testimonies in the Institute’s Visual ed at the University of Southern California. History Archive catalogued and indexed, Today, full archival access is available at these today, the Institute is focused on providing institutions, as well as at the University of access to the testimonies at universities and Michigan, the University of North Carolina at research institutions around the world. Chapel Hill, and at Freie Universität Berlin. In December, Freie Universität Berlin in Shoah Foundation Institute and the Freie “The Visual History Archive contains what Germany became the first university outside the Universität Berlin that resulted in the university’s is by far the largest collection of Holocaust sur- United States to access the Visual History access to the Visual History Archive. vivor testimonies to be found anywhere in the Archive via Internet2. Greenberg and Karen world,” said Christopher Browning, Frank Jungblut, Director of Archival Access and Making Access Possible via Technology Porter Graham Professor of History at Special Projects for the Institute, attended the The technology that makes digital access to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. launch event, which drew members of the the entire archive possible is Internet2, a sepa- “To make this material readily available to media, as well as students and faculty from rate, high-capacity network capable of more researchers on our campus—whether faculty, Freie Universität Berlin. effective data transmission than the Internet. graduate students, or undergraduates—is a “The Freie Universität Berlin, which was Internet2 is designed to promote research and tremendous service. For my current research founded after the Second World War, is proud communication among more than 200 univer- project on a complex of factory slave labor to be the first university in Europe to provide sities and research institutions in the United camps in southern Poland, I have had to travel access to the Visual History Archive for States and among institutions connected as far as Warsaw and Jerusalem to collect mate- researchers and students,” said Professor Dieter worldwide to similar networks. Institutions rials. Now a major source for my work will be Lenzen, President of the Freie Universität connected to Internet2, or an equivalent net- readily accessible here on campus.” Berlin. “In various ways, this unique archive

USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and EducationTM www.usc.edu/vhi particular moment of history. Visual history is Integrating into Campus Life the medium by which students in the future At the universities where access has been will learn about the past.” available, educators incorporated testimonies In 2007, the USC Shoah Foundation from the archive into 37 courses across many Institute will collaborate with a growing num- disciplines, including anthropology, business, ber of universities and institutions to provide film, history, law, psychology, and sociology. access to the archive around the world. The University of Minnesota, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Monash

Opposite page left: (L to R) Dieter Lenzen, President of the Freie Universität Berlin, and Douglas Greenberg, Institute Executive Director, discuss the new research opportunities the Visual History Archive provides scholars at the Freie Universität Berlin. A sample of such courses include: Creating the Opposite page center: (L to R) Dieter Nonfiction Film; Genocide, Human Rights, and Lenzen, Werner Bab, a Holocaust survivor, the Media; Text as Property, Property as Text; and Douglas Greenberg. Gender and Symbolism; Law and Society; and Opposite page right: (L to R) Nicolas Religion in Eastern Europe under Communism. Apostolopoulos, Director of the Center for “The experiences the survivors’ testimonies Digital Systems at the Freie Universität Berlin, Hélène Sostarich-Barsamian, bear witness to are an invaluable, shattering, University in Melbourne, Australia, will be Executive Director of Friends of Freie and unique history of global import,” said next to gain access to the Visual History Univerisität Berlin, and Wedigo de Vivanco, Diane Butler, Assistant University Librarian Archive. Dean of International Affairs at Freie for Information Technology at Rice Monash University—nearly 8000 miles from Universität Berlin, visited the USC Shoah University. “Rice plans to make the Visual the Institute in Los Angeles—will be the first Foundation Institute to discuss making the History Archive increasingly accessible on in Australia with digital access to the entire archive available in Berlin. campus, furthering its impact on pedagogy archive. Access at Monash University is being Above left: Faculty and staff at the Freie and integration into the life of the mind and, funded by Ms. Lee Liberman, of the LJCB Universität Berlin welcomed Douglas as much as we are able, to bring the archives group of companies, and the Pratt Family Greenberg and Karen Jungblut from the to other schools and communities of interest.” Foundation. A launch event, planned for early Institute to the launch event in Berlin. 2007, will acknowledge this milestone. Above center: Douglas Greenberg (left), Moving Forward Universities and institutions interested in and Dieter Lenzen (right), answer questions “We cannot underestimate the importance of accessing the archive work with generous from the press. visual history testimony and oral testimony in donors to make the project possible. Please con- Above right: (L to R) Nicolas Apostolopoulos, the years to come,” said Greenberg. “Books tact the USC Shoah Foundation Institute if you Wedigo de Vivanco, Peter Lange, from Freie can teach us history, but visual and oral history are interested in helping to bring the Visual Universität Berlin, and Douglas Greenberg, allow learning to come directly from the History Archive to additional institutions. source, from someone who lived through a at the launch event.

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Films Bring Survivors’ Experiences to International Stage Using testimonies from its Visual History Archive as primary source material, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute collaborated with accomplished filmmakers to create 11 documentary films that have been broadcast in 50 countries and subtitled in 28 languages. In 2006, the Institute’s 10th and 11th films were released. Volevo solo vivere (I Only Wanted to Live), directed by Mimmo Calopresti, premiered in Rome in January 2006, and Nazvy svoie im’ia (Spell Your Name), a film by Sergey Bukovsky, premiered in October. Volevo solo vivere (I Only Wanted to Live) “ walked out of Auschwitz, but I left behind Calopresti speaks about my heart and soul. We’ll always be there.” making the documentary. I These words are spoken by Holocaust sur- “In my films, I sometimes vivor Nedo Fiano in the Italian film Volevo solo presume that I can tell vivere (I Only Wanted to Live), the Institute’s other people’s stories for 10th documentary. them. This time, I decid- I Only Wanted to Live, by Italian film director ed just to listen, to have Mimmo Calopresti, chronicles the Holocaust as the strength not to walk experienced in Italy, from the racial laws away when hearing cer- Mussolini enacted in 1938 through the German tain stories became too invasion in 1943 and the liberation of difficult.” Film Festival, the Palm Beach Jewish Film Auschwitz in 1945. The experiences are made In January 2006, I Only Wanted to Live pre- Festival, and the Washington, D.C. Jewish personal through the use of testimony from the miered at an event hosted by Rome’s Mayor, Film Festival. Institute’s Walter Veltroni, and the Comune di Roma, I Only Wanted to Live is produced by the USC archive. Nine with generous support from Rai Cinema. Shoah Foundation Institute, Gagè Produzioni, Italian citizens, Approximately 1000 guests, including the cur- and Wildside Media, in co-production with all survivors of rent Prime Minister of Italy, Romano Prodi, funders Rai Cinema, Ventura Film, and RTSI- Auschwitz, attended the event, held at the city’s premier Televisione Svizzera. Mark Edwards, Laurence share their concert hall, Auditorium Parco della Musica. Hoffmann, and Mimmo Calopresti worked stories; their Since then, the film has been released theatri- together as the film’s producers, and Francesca testimonies are cally in five Italian cities and was nominated for Alatri served as associate producer. Additional woven among the country’s main national film award, the funding for I Only Wanted to Live was provided personal and David di Donatello Award, in the category of by Francesca Alatri, Mel and Betty Sembler, historical photo- Best Feature-Length Documentary. and the Comune di Roma. graphs and Additionally, I Only Wanted to Live screened additional at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival in the Official Above: (L to R) Swiss partners Andres Pfaffli archival footage Selection, Out of Competition. Its success there and Elda Guidinetti of Ventura Film; Francesca to create a 75-minute narrative. The survivors attracted the attention of film festivals world- Alatri, a donor and the film’s associate producer; featured are: Andra Bucci, Esterina Calò Di wide, and since then, the documentary has Mimmo Calopresti, the film’s director; Laurence Veroli, Nedo Fiano, Luciana Nissim screened at the Jerusalem Film Festival, the Hoffman, producer; and Mark Edwards, producer Momigliano, Liliana Segre, Settimia Montreal World Film Festival, the Annecy and Institute Regional Consultant in France Spizzichino, Giuliana Tedeschi, Shlomo Cinéma Italien (2006), the Melbourne and attended the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, where Venezia, and Arminio Wachsberger. Sydney Jewish Film Festival, the Boston Jewish I Only Wanted to Live screened as Official Selection, Out of Competition.

USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and EducationTM www.usc.edu/vhi Nazvy svoie im’ia (Spell Your Name)

pell Your Name is the Institute’s feature- on something else. The interviewees remained standing and tolerance and takes a step toward length documentary film about the with me all the time. They turned into my banishing hatred.” S Holocaust in Ukraine. In it, director family, my neighbors.” A generous grant from Victor Pinchuk made Sergey Bukovsky takes viewers on a journey of The testimonies featured in Spell Your Name production of Spell Your Name possible; Mr. discovery, as he and three Ukrainian journal- are those of Polina Bel’skaia, Mikhail Fel’berg, Pinchuk acted as co-executive producer with ism students absorb the testimony of local Bronislava Fuks, Mariia Egorycheva- Spielberg, and the USC Shoah Foundation people who escaped brutal execution and those Glagoleva, Mariia Gol’dberg, Fenia Kleiman, Institute continues to partner with the Victor who rescued friends and neighbors during the Zinaida Klimanovskaia, Irina Maksimova, Pinchuk Foundation in support of the film. Holocaust. “The audience will identify with Iurii Pinchuk, Evgenia Podolskaia, Mikhail “It is essential that we learn the lessons of these students,” said Mark Edwards, a produc- Rossinskii, Leonid Serebriakov, Tsilia Shport, history, and the testimonies gathered by the er of the film and consultant for the Institute. and Mariia Zanvelevich. USC Shoah Foundation Institute that appear in “Their reactions to watching testimony, as The film premiered in Kyiv in October this film are the most compelling teachers for captured on film, mirror the experiences of an 2006 to an audience of nearly 2000, at the Ukraine and all the world,” said Pinchuk. A audience that may not have a deep awareness International Center of Culture and Arts (the teacher’s guide to accompany the film will be of the Holocaust.” former Zhovtnevyi Palace). completed this spring, as part of a broader edu- As the men and women featured in the film “It is especially important to raise these cational program being developed by the share the details of their experiences, viewers issues of tolerance as we commemorate the Institute in conjunction with the Pinchuk are also afforded a glimpse of modern-day 65th anniversary of the massacre at Babi Yar,” Foundation. Ukraine: the ethnic stereotypes that continue said Douglas Greenberg, Institute Executive to exist and the manner in which post-Soviet Director, in Kyiv. “Spell Your Name teaches us Left: (L to R) Victor Pinchuk, co-executive pro- society is dealing with the question of how to all about some of the darkest moments in ducer; Steven Spielberg, co-executive producer; memorialize the sites where tens of thousands human history; we hope and expect that it will Sergey Bukovsky, the film’s director; Elena of Jewish families and others were executed not only provide education about the past but Franchuk; and Douglas Greenberg, Institute and thrown into mass graves. start a dialogue about the future as well.” Executive Director, at the film premiere in Kyiv. Spell Your Name is crafted using Ukrainian- At the press conference prior to the pre- Center: (L to R) Leonid Serebriakov, a survivor and Russian-language testimonies from the miere, Steven Spielberg, co-executive producer featured in the film, speaks with Anna Lenchovska, USC Shoah Foundation Institute archive and of the film, spoke about the epidemic of Institute Regional Consultant in Ukraine, Steven new footage shot on location in Ukraine. racism. “Hatred comes from fear, and we have Spielberg, and Douglas Greenberg. “To prepare for the film,” said Bukovsky, experienced a century of fear,” he said. “Until Right: (L to R) Victoria Bondar, associate producer; “we viewed nearly 500 testimonies from the we get to the bottom of what makes people so Mark Edwards, producer and Institute Regional Institute’s archive. As I watched, I could imag- afraid of the differences in others, we are Consultant in France; Sergey Bukovsky, the film’s ine making a film from every single one. This going to experience an even greater century of director; and Kim Simon, Director of Partnerships is very difficult material…. You cannot simply fear. I hope this film, as it explores such a dark and International Programs, at the premiere in Kyiv. watch a testimony and then tune out and work historical moment, opens the doors for under- pastforward, Winter 2007 13 T ESTIMONIES A ROUND THE WORLD

Messages for a More Tolerant Future Brazilian film incorporates survivor testimonies

“Most school children in Brazil have no idea that the Holocaust took with a group of educators place,” said Anita Pinkuss, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s and historians to Regional Consultant in São Paulo, Brazil. “I wanted to make a film create a teacher’s guide that would introduce high school to accompany the film. students to the Holocaust and Her initial goal is to pro- draw their attention to the impor- vide the documentary to tant lessons it teaches us today— 200–300 public schools in namely, that intolerance is growing São Paulo, and later on other places in Brazil. everywhere in the world, and Pinkuss produced the documentary in collaboration with Projeto events like the Holocaust can Lembrar (Project Remember), a group she founded in 1999 with five happen again.” former interviewers from the Shoah Foundation Institute, once inter- To begin addressing this issue, viewing in Brazil was complete. Projeto Lembrar is part of Centro Da Pinkuss produced Mensagens Para Um Futuro Mais Tolerante (Messages Cultura Judaica, Casa de Cultura de Israel, a Jewish and Israeli cultural for a More Tolerant Future), a 40-minute documentary in Portuguese. center in São Paulo. The music featured in Messages for a More Tolerant The film weaves photographs, maps, and archival information together Future is composed by Michel Kleinsinger, a survivor whose testimony is with testimony from seven survivors: Arthur Wolff, Rita Braun, Celina also in the Institute’s archive. Bornstein, Ben Abraham, Jan Strebinger, Maria Yefremov, and Chaim Korenfeld. All seven immigrated to Brazil after the war. The testimonies Left: Anita Pinkuss, Institute Regional Consultant in São Paulo, Brazil, come from the Institute’s Visual History Archive. with Rita Braun, a Holocaust survivor featured in the documentary. In April 2006, Messages for a More Tolerant Future premiered in São Above: The documentary production team includes, from left, Kátia Lerner, Paulo. Three hundred guests, including two survivors featured in the Institute Regional Consultant in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Anita Pinkuss; film, Jan Strebinger and Rita Braun, attended. Pinkuss is now working Paulo Baroukh, co-producer and director; and members of Projeto Lembrar.

Sharing Methodology Archivio Centrale dello Stato in Italy to use Institute’s software to index audiovisual collections

More than 10 years ago, when the Shoah Institute’s proprietary system for catalogu- Foundation Institute developed a system to ing and indexing audiovisual interviews, catalogue and index digitally the 120,000 which it plans to modify for its own col- hours of video testimony it planned to add lections. Maurizio Fallace, General to its archive, it envisioned that other insti- Director for Archives, explains, “There is tutions might want to adapt it to index an ever-increasing need in many fields to their own audiovisual collections. The preserve memory by means of individuals’ Archivio Centrale dello Stato, a long-stand- personal stories of the experiences they ing partner of the Institute, is the first to lived through as a way to document their pilot such a project. perception of facts and events. It is impor- spanned three years, and the archivists The collaboration with the Archivio tant that archivists make these sources indexed the entire collection of Italian Centrale dello Stato first began in 1999 fully searchable as well.” interviews. They returned to Italy with new when it approached the Institute with a expertise and copies of more than 400 testi- pioneering proposal—to send some of its Above: Micaela Procaccia, one of the archivists monies, which are now available for public most experienced archivists to Los Angeles from the Archivio Centrale dello Stato in Italy, viewing in Rome. to receive hands-on training using the catalogued and indexed the Italian-language Recently, the partnership expanded Institute’s indexing system. The program testimonies in the Institute’s archive. further when the Archivio licensed the

USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and EducationTM www.usc.edu/vhi New Visual History Collections

“Future generations will not be able to meet Holocaust survivors. These testimonies at the Center ensure that children will continue to see and hear survivors’ stories.”

— Dale Daniels, Executive Director of the Center for Holocaust Studies at Brookdale Community College

New Collection Highlights Archival Access Agency for Jewish Learning Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand The USC Shoah Foundation Institute is dedicat- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Berlin, Germany ed to providing students, educators, researchers, Testimony of a survivor who lived in Pittsburgh Eighty-nine English-language testimonies and the general public access to the Visual describing German aid givers History Archive. The entire archive is available Anne Frank Zentrum for viewing at a growing number of institutions Berlin, Germany Illinois School for the Deaf around the world (see pages 10–11), as well as Testimony of a homosexual survivor Jacksonville, Illinois at the University of Southern California in Los Four testimonies given in sign language Asociación Yad Vashem de Mexico Angeles, where the Institute is located. Huixquilucan, Mexico Instituto Cultural Judaico-Brasiliero Information about archival usage between One hundred ten testimonies conducted Bernardo Schulman January and October 2006: in Mexico Curitiba, Brazil 18 educator requests for testimony segments Testimonies conducted in Paraná, Brazil Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation for use in the classroom New York, New York Jewish Museum of Maryland 40 requests for testimony footage for inclusion Fifteen testimonies of survivors born in Baltimore, Maryland in exhibits, documentary films, or television Oswiecim,´ ˛ Poland Eight testimonies of survivors from Maryland broadcasts Center for Holocaust Studies at Brookdale Rabbi Lieb Geleibter Memorial Foundation 107 visitors to the University of Southern Community College Brooklyn, New York California to search the archive Brookdale, New Jersey Twenty-two testimonies of Orthodox Jewish 479 research inquiries One hundred fifty-six testimonies conducted in survivors the Brookdale, New Jersey area 5500 Visual History Archive user sessions Thompson Rivers University logged at all Internet2 sites (University of Galt Museum and Archives Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada Southern California, Rice University, Yale Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada Seventy-five testimonies conducted in University, and the University of Michigan) Testimony of a survivor and author who resided British Columbia in Alberta To date, 900 unique users have accessed the Union Israelita de Caracas archive at an Internet2 site, and 37 courses Caracas, Venezuela taught at universities with digital access to the Sixteen testimonies collected in Venezuela archive have included testimony.

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New Education Funds

Banchik Family Education Fund The Kesters support the Institute’s mission With a gift of $25,000, longtime supporters of using visual history testimonies to create Jackie and Howard Banchik helped the USC educational programs that help eradicate Shoah Foundation Institute to establish the prejudice and intolerance. “We have support- Banchik Family Education Fund. ed the USC Shoah Foundation Institute as it “Education has always been a priority to us,” collected and preserved testimonies, includ- said Jackie. “Supporting the educational work of ing our own, and believe it is of utmost the USC Shoah Foundation Institute will have a importance to support them today, as they lasting influence on future generations.” disseminate the testimonies to the rest of the Jackie is a graduate of the University of world,” said Paul. Southern California and was thrilled to learn that the Foundation had become a part of the university. Howard Wohl Family Foundation Western “The establish- European Education Fund. ment of “Our fear is that years after all of the sur- the Shoah vivors are gone, the Holocaust will have been Foundation stripped of emotion, relegated to words on Institute at pages in history books,” stated Hilary Zalon, USC is a won- daughter of Diane and Howard. “The video derful develop- testimonials present these events in a powerful ment for both context, which we believe will allow future organizations; generations to connect with the human aspect “With contributions earmarked as it places the of what really happened.” Education Funds,” said Steven Klappholz, Institute at a The fund will enable the Institute to Executive Director of Development, “the world-class expand its international work, providing the Institute can reach into communities world- university and means to support and train its network of wide and provide educators with powerful also exposes the students, professors, and entire regional consultants. The fund also allows the teaching tools that engage students on a per- university community to the wonderful resources Institute to expand its Visual History on sonal level with effective lessons that contained in the Visual History Archive.” Loan program, through which schools, muse- survivors—like Susan and Paul Kester—teach.” In addition to supporting the work of the ums, and cultural organizations are able to USC Shoah Foundation Institute, the Banchiks borrow documentaries and testimonies from Left: Howard and Jackie Banchik helped the are very involved in other philanthropic endeav- the archive. Additionally, the Wohl’s gift will Institute establish the Banchik Family Education ors that benefit education, health care, and enable the Institute to explore new partner- Fund, which will support educational activities social service agencies. ships with universities and with government around the world. The Banchik Family Education Fund enables and non-governmental organizations in Center: The Wohl Family Foundation will enable the Institute to pursue a wide range of educa- Western Europe. tional activities in public institutions and the Institute to expand its international work. Diane and Howard Wohl’s daughter and son-in- schools around the world. Paul & Susan Kester Education Fund law, Hilary and Zack Zalon, visit the Institute. USC Shoah Foundation Institute supporters Diane & Howard Wohl Family Right: Paul and Susan Kester, both Holocaust Paul and Susan Kester have made gifts totaling Foundation Western European survivors who have given testimony, are longtime $60,000 to establish the Paul and Susan Kester Education Fund supporters of the Institute. Education Fund. Susan and Paul are both After a recent visit to the USC Shoah Holocaust survivors; their testimonies are Foundation Institute, the Wohl family made a among the nearly 52,000 collected in the generous $75,000 gift, establishing the Diane & Institute’s Visual History Archive.

USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and EducationTM www.usc.edu/vhi Recent Visitors

1. Rwandan filmmaker Eric Kabera and Douglas Greenberg (right) 2. (L to R) Sherry Bard, Associate Director of Partnerships and International Programs; Mark Edwards, producer and Institute Regional Consultant in France; Kim 4 Simon, Director of Partnerships and International Programs; and Inna Gogina, Coordinator, Partnerships and International Programs 3. Anna Motyczka (left), Institute Regional Consultant in Poland, 1 and Martin Smokˇ (right), Senior Program Consultant for Central and Eastern Europe, with Douglas 5 Greenberg 4. Donors Barry and Rikki Kaplan with their sons Sam (front) and Lee (back right) 5. Steven Klappholz, Executive Director of Development, with donor Michelle Wiens (center) and her daughter, Emily Marrs (right) 6 6. Feliks Dukhovny, Institute Regional Consultant in Russia 2 7. Donor Gary Belz 8. Ann Mitchell, a researcher from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, searching testimonies

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How You Can Make a Difference

ne person really can make a difference. The USC Shoah M EMORIAL OR T RIBUTE G IFTS: Contributions can be made Foundation Institute counts on your support to continue its to honor special occasions, such as birthdays, weddings, or births, as Oimportant work to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry. well as to memorialize a friend or family member. The Institute will mail a tribute card announcing the gift. CASH DONATIONS: Gifts may be made by cash, check, or credit card.

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Donor Highlight Leaving a Legacy

Paul Blank is a Holocaust survivor. Born in Mildred and Paul have two daughters 1923 in Belzyce, a town outside of Lublin, and four grandchildren. Explained Mildred Poland, Paul was deported to Juzefow and about Paul’s testimony, “We want our survived life in six other concentration grandchildren, and their children, to have camps. In 1945, American soldiers liberated the opportunity to hear Paul’s story, as well Paul during a death march from Dachau. as the testimonies of other survivors. If we Paul arrived in the United States in 1946. forget the lessons of the Holocaust, we will Two years later, he married Mildred, his be destined to repeat them.” wife of 58 years. Planned gifts, such as that of Paul and Education is of utmost importance to Mildred Blank, leave a legacy that will help Paul and Mildred. As a result of their con- the USC Shoah Foundation Institute carry nection to the USC Shoah Foundation on its mission to overcome prejudice, intol- Institute and their interest in education, erance, and bigotry—and the suffering they have included the Institute in their they cause—through the educational use estate plans. “We want to help ensure that of the Institute’s visual history testimonies. the USC Shoah Foundation Institute has There are many ways to make a planned enough funding to carry out their impor- gift, including wills, charitable remainder Paul and Mildred Blank have included the USC tant mission for many years to come,” said trusts, annuities, life insurance policies, Shoah Foundation Institute in their estate plans. Paul. “We know the Institute shares our retirement plans, and real property. For commitment to teaching future genera- more information about making a planned tions about the lessons that can be learned gift to the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, from survivors and other witnesses.” please contact Steven Klappholz at 213-740-6051.

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What’s Inside

Bringing Visual History to 2 Russian Classrooms Institute conducts first international workshop to introduce visual history in the classroom

Creating Character 5 New online educational resource explores importance of positive charac- ter development

Expanding Frontiers Premiere of Spell Your Name in Ukraine (see page 13) 10 New technology and growing partnerships provide broader access to the Visual History Archive around Subscribe to our e-newsletter today the world Begin receiving monthly e-newsletters alerting you to special events, Spell Your Name new programs, and the latest Institute news. 13 Steven Spielberg co-hosts premiere of the Institute’s 11th docu- Send an e-mail to [email protected] with mentary in Kyiv, Ukraine “e-newsletter” in the subject line.

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