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Teacher Innovation Network: Empowering Educators to Change the World

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Board of Councilors Wel Steven Spielberg Honorary Chair Edgar M. Bronfman Honorary Co-chair Renée Crown Honorary Co-chair Lew Wasserman Honorary Co-chair in Memoriam Wallis Annenberg Russel Bernard T Gerald Breslauer Jerome Coben Stephen Cozen Susan Crown David Eisman Phyllis Epstein Emanuel Gerard Eric Greenberg Marc Grossman Yossie Hollander PastForward Robert Katz winter 2o1o William Lauder Lee Liberman Skip Paul Bruce Ramer Welcome Special Coverage Harry Robinson 1 Touchstone of Humanity 8 Steven Spielberg Honored Michael Rutman with Liberty Medal for Mickey Shapiro Accessibility Humanitarian Work Erna Viterbi 2 “The Courage to Tell”: Casey Wasserman Testimonies of Rwandan Accessibility Genocide Survivors 9 New Visual History Archive Founding Executive Directors Search Interface June Beallor 3 Online: First Testimonies James Moll on the Internet 9 Preserving the Testimonies Founding Advisory Committee Research Giving Karen Kushell 4 Genocide Survivor Testimony 1o Donor Highlight: Branko Lustig in Documentary Film: Its Vera and Paul Guerin Gerald R. Molen Afterlife and Its Legacy 1o ACE Charitable Foundation Executive Staff 5 International Conference to Support Local Rwandan Stephen Smith Slated for March 2010 Testimony Project Executive Director 5 USC Faculty Stipends 1o Making a Difference: Kim Simon Awarded Harvey Chaplin Managing Director Sam Gustman Education 11 Extraordinary Leadership: Chief Technology Officer Bruce Ramer 6 Teacher Innovation Network: Karen Jungblut Empowering Educators to 11 How You Can Make Director of Research Change the World a Difference and Documentation 12 Partners in History Steven Klappholz and the Future Executive Director of Development Ari Zev On the Cover: Renée Firestone (right), Director of Administration a survivor of the Holocaust, speaks with educators at the Teaching with Testimony workshop in August. For more about the workshop and the USC Institute’s Teacher Innovation Network, SHOAH turn to page six. (Photo by Kim Fox) FOUNDATION INSTITUTE

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Touchstone of Humanity

eally, why would you come to the USC Shoah Foundation “rInstitute?” This question has been put to me almost daily since I became executive director in August. Why, after being involved in Holocaust education and genocide prevention projects in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the world, would I move to Los Angeles to commit myself to a collection of audio-visual Holocaust testimonies?

The answer is that the how visual history can shape testimonies have set before us? Institute’s archive of the future, as well as unlock Will our distinctive academic testimony presents a the past. programs and research help unique, once-in-a-life- It has been fifteen years since set the standard of our struggle time opportunity to speak the Shoah Foundation Institute across the field? Will students to our world about the began with a vision to ensure and scholars who come to the causes and consequences that a record of the living Institute draw from that experi- of the Holocaust through voices, the memories, and the ence throughout their lives? the undeniable voices of messages of Holocaust survivors And will the archive become those who experienced it and other witnesses would that touchstone of humanity, firsthand. The 52,000 testimonies of Shoah “Now I am asking, ‘What will the next fifteen survivors are arguably the years bring?’ Will the life stories of Holocaust compelling voice of our age. eyewitnesses, and their warning from history, They make the Holocaust real be taught in classrooms and communities for people’s lives today and focus us on our mission for in every corner of the world?” tomorrow. People of many dif- — Stephen Smith ferent languages from many countries will be inspired to endure for every generation. to help us face the reality of examine their attitudes about To be part of the team that is human behavior and shed some others, to distinguish individu- custodian to these “timeless light on the ways to change it? als from stereotypes, and to truths” is a daunting privilege. These demands and ques- think about how to make right Now I am asking, “What will tions are implicit in the voices choices at critical moments, the next fifteen years bring?” we hear in the archive. I look when history is in our hands. Will the life stories of forward to struggling for As part of a world-class academ- Holocaust eyewitnesses, and answers with you. ic and research institution, we their warning from history, be have the chance to establish taught in classrooms and com- Stephen Smith a center of excellence at USC, munities in every corner of Executive Director which will one day become the the world? Will we be able to destination for understanding meet the challenge that the

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As many as 1 million people rather than just listening were killed over the next three emotionally. I was taking into AC months, often by their own consideration what would be neighbors. “Those are pictures useful to end-users and trying that are always in my soul,” to make sure every detail is O Gatali said, remembering what accounted for, such as names, he witnessed, including the places, and dates.” o “The Courage to Tell”: murder of his pregnant cousin. “From a genocide survivor’s “I will always see them.” point of view,” she added, “it Testimonies of Rwandan Gatali and two other survivors was very hard to listen to the Genocide Survivors “w s d I s t t S h

c N m m t “Their testimonies made me a realize that we can do so much p more than just grieve alone. t Just having the courage to tell I our stories is making sure the w world knows what happened.” h — Consolée Uwamariya t Above: Consolée Uwamariya, a sur- a vivor of the Rwandan Tutsi genocide, mmanuel Gatali, a of the Rwandan Tutsi genocide testimonies again and again. S learns how to index using the testimony of Holocaust survivor Peter Hersch 34-year-old survivor gave their testimonies in 2008. But we used Holocaust sur- D (Photo by Kim Fox). Right: Emmanuel of the Rwandan Consolée Uwamariya, a survivor vivors’ testimonies for training, t Gatali, a survivor of the Rwandan e Tutsi genocide, gives his testimony. Tutsi genocide, of the genocide who lives in and that was a wake up call for r remembers when he and his Los Angeles, recently indexed me. Their testimonies made me t family heard explosions not far these interviews (assigned realize that we can do so much b from their home on the early keywords to specific video more than just grieve alone. Just o morning of April 7, 1994. segments) to make them having the courage to tell our f “We sent [someone] to go searchable once they become stories is making sure the world check out what was going on,” part of the Institute’s Visual knows what happened.” T Gatali recalled. “He told us that History Archive. T they had started killing people.” “It was a very eye-opening To support the Institute’s effort v process,” Uwamariya said. to interview survivors of the Y Rwandan Tutsi genocide, visit “Approaching the testimonies college.usc.edu/vhi/donate. v as an indexer made me think in-depth while listening,

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ACCESSIBILITY A new frontier: Visual History Archive on the Internet Online: First Testimonies As part of its effort to provide online access to the testimonies, on the Internet the Institute is developing the s Visual History Archive on the Internet (VHA-I), which will deliver 1,000 English- hat prompted language testimonies me to tell over the Web. Set to “w my story,” pilot in April 2010, the Holocaust VHA-I will use Web survivor Nathan Offen said 2.0 and social network- during his interview with the ing technology to help Institute in 1996, “is because I teachers make educa- see the hate and destruction in tional use of testimony this world, and the denial, that in and out of the class- there never was a Holocaust… room. Students will So it has to be told. People be able to work with have to learn.” testimony and other Now, with an Internet resources, individually connection, one can learn from or cooperatively, in an Nathan’s story. His is one of online environment more than 100 full-length testi- moderated by their monies that can be viewed on teachers, and acquire the Institute’s YouTube channel, valuable digital literacy a new point of access that is skills while exploring part of a larger effort to bring As part of the effort to make the testimonies accessible online, the Institute has the life stories of Holocaust posted more than 100 full-length interviews on its YouTube channel. the testimonies onto the survivors and other witnesses. Internet in coming years. ing in 2009, the Institute’s services holds strong potential “Nearly 52,000 individuals YouTube channel has steadily as a platform from which to To support online access who experienced the Holocaust grown with content that now raise awareness of the testi- to the testimonies, visit have entrusted their memories includes scholarly lectures monies and encourage their college.usc.edu/vhi/donate. to the Institute as a legacy for and other informative videos educational use. The Institute Follow the Institute on: all of humanity,” said Stephen in addition to short clips of is reaching out to people on YouTube Smith, Institute Executive testimony and full-length Facebook (username: USC youtube.com/ USCShoahFoundation Director. “As custodian of testimonies. To view the Shoah Foundation Institute), g, those memories, it is our Institute’s YouTube channel, sharing news of its activities Twitter twitter.com/uscshoahfdn r responsibility, our solemn duty, visit youtube.com/ on Twitter (twitter.com/ me to disseminate them responsi- USCShoahFoundation. uscshoahfdn), and has created Teacher Innovation Network college.usc.edu/vhi/education/ h bly throughout the world; a ning, an online environment teachernetwork ust online access is the key to ful- Reaching out where members of its Teacher Ning filling this obligation.” through Web 2.0 Innovation Network (college. sfiteachernetwork.ning.com ld YouTube exemplifies a trend usc.edu/vhi/education/ Testimony on YouTube toward dynamic, user-driven teachernetwork) can exchange The most popular online online environments, which are ideas and resources to help video community in the world, revolutionizing how people them instruct students using YouTube draws millions of communicate, network, and Holocaust eyewitness testimo- viewers each day. Since launch- share information. Collectively ny. Visit each respective web- dubbed Web 2.0, this new page to join. generation of websites and

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almost every one of the people Ted Braun, who is an a we’d filmed, put their lives in associate professor in the USC o jeopardy, [presented] a daunt- School of Cinematic Arts, was g ing…moral challenge.” joined on the panel by Emmy a As Braun discovered, record- Award-winning filmmaker t ing genocide-survivor testimony Anne Aghion, whose series on for use in a documentary film Rwanda’s Gacaca courts explores Genocide Survivor Testimony raises sensitive issues. Some the prospects of transitional of these issues—e.g., the chal- justice after genocide; filmmak- RE in Documentary Film: Its lenges involved in navigating er and Institute Founding the political landscape of a Executive Director James Moll, Afterlife and Its Legacy country where genocide is whose film Inheritance, which In occurring—must be resolved profiles Monika Goeth, daughter of Nazi concentration camp S commandant Amon Goeth, won an Emmy in 2009 for Outstanding Interview; and filmmaker Socheata Poeuv, whose 2006 documentary NEW YEAR BABY earned Amnesty i International’s Movies That Matter Award. Emmy-winning li broadcast journalist and news f producer Andi Gitow, who A now works for the United C Nations, moderated the panel. o “With its experience t interviewing witnesses of a the Holocaust, the Shoah A Foundation Institute is uniquely attuned to the idea m of film as visual history and a is aware of the responsibilities d involved in working with r survivors of genocide,” said I Panelists take questions from the audi- Professor Michael Renov, a ence at “Genocide Survivor Testimony in hile making on the front end of a project. Associate Dean of the School e Documentary Film: Its Afterlife and Its Legacy,” at the USC School of Cinematic his award- Others take precedence in of Cinematic Arts. “Its partici- t Arts’ George Lucas Instructional Building. winning retrospect, such as the question pation in the Visible Evidence t (Photo by Amber Mirafuentes) w documentary of what to do with interview Conference has brought wel- a Darfur Now in 2007, writer/ footage that has value beyond come perspective to the study e director Ted Braun traveled the context of the film for of documentary practice.” a to Sudan to record interviews which it was recorded. “Finding a home for the e with individuals on all sides With these issues in mind, archive at USC has allowed of the conflict in Darfur— in August, the USC Shoah the Institute to encourage dia- g including survivors of what Foundation Institute and the logue on many levels,” said F has been called the first geno- USC School of Cinematic Arts Karen Jungblut, Institute p cide of the 21st century. hosted a panel discussion and Director of Research and in “Simply getting access to audience Q&A session with Documentation. “In addition o people who had stories to tell documentarians who have to bringing focus to Holocaust was a daunting challenge,” interviewed survivors for their eyewitness testimony, we r Braun said. “And the responsi- films. The panel was part of have now had this opportunity, A bilities that we…faced once the School of Cinematic in conjunction with the School f we’d heard and filmed those Arts’ Visible Evidence XVI of Cinematic Arts, to bring s stories, which, in the case of conference. o

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about an informed examination mean for the survivors them- the video at college.usc.edu/ C of the implications of using selves, and what it could vhi/visibleevidence09/video. USC Faculty s genocide-survivor testimony mean for the world.” To view photos, visit Stipends Awarded y as a means of communication If you were unable to attend college.usc.edu/vhi/visible through film—what it could the discussion, you can watch evidence09/photos. With funding from the Leo Rosner n Foundation, the Institute has provid- res ed stipends that will enable two USC k- faculty members to incorporate testi- RESEARCH University in Australia, and mony in courses in the upcoming oll, at sites across the United States. academic year. International Conference The Institute will follow up ter with a second survey after Slated for March 2o1o the conference to assess its effectiveness. “When UC San Diego m- gained full access to the archive e n spring 2010, the directors. “We hope our in 2007, we hoped that our stu- R Institute will bring involvement will help the dents and faculty would recog- itogether university pro- Institute and its colleagues nize its unique value and flock fessors, researchers, and make significant advancements to use it,” said Elliot Kanter, ng librarians from across the world in knowledge related to educa- Librarian for Communication, s for the “International Digital tional use of the archive so that Judaic Studies and U.S. History (American Studies and Ethnicity, Access Outreach and Research students at every level, as well at the University of California, English, and Gender Studies) plans Conference,” the first gathering as scholars and researchers, San Diego. “We began develop- to integrate testimony into at least el. of colleagues from the more may experience the full impact ing programs for active outreach three courses on visual culture, nar- than 20 institutions that have of the life stories of Holocaust to the campus community, and rative, and the Holocaust, beginning access to the Visual History survivors and other witnesses.” to the wider San Diego commu- with a graduate seminar taught in Archive. A comprehensive survey, nity as well, and have been conjunction with Professor Macarena “These individuals have administered in-person or by pleased to see awareness and Gómez-Barris for the Visual Studies made extensive use of the phone, is being used to help set use of the testimony collection archive, and they have a great the agenda for the conference grow. I hope our future efforts Graduate Certificate Program. es deal to share with us as a and shed light on the various will be strengthened by the result,” said Karen Jungblut, ways the archive is being used chance to learn how colleagues Institute Director of Research at partner institutions; the at other institutions are handling and Documentation. “By survey has been administered at the opportunities and challenges l encouraging dialogue and fos- Yad Vashem in Israel, Monash the archive presents.” i- tering a community around ce the archive through events such as this one, we can work togeth- y er to realize its potential as a foundation for worldwide (French education and scholarship.” and Italian) plans to use testimony Made possible by a as part of “The Shoah in Italy and the - grant from the Jim Joseph Foundation, the conference is Myth of the Good Italian,” a course part of a program that aims to that aims to deepen students’ under- increase the archive’s impact standing of the Italian Jewish condi- on higher education. tion before, during, and after World t “The Jim Joseph Foundation War II, as well as examine the post- recognizes the Visual History war phenomenon of transferring y, Archive as a unique and power- all blame for the Holocaust onto l ful resource for educators,” From left: Brendan Rosewarne, Senior Systems Programmer of Distributed Systems, Nazi Germany. said Jack Slomovic, a member Douglas Ballman, Institute Manager of External Relations for the Online Archive, and Rosalind Olsen, Subject Librarian of Australian Studies, Historical Studies, Jewish of the foundation’s board of Civilisation, Religion, and Theology at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

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“When I speak to children… a I tell them that I learned one m very important lesson from the t Holocaust, and that is that I will t never judge people collectively. a I also tell children that they h have the power to change the Teacher Innovation Network: world—that…each and every w one of us, by our actions and L Empowering Educators how we live our lives, are M changing the world for better w to Change the World or for worse.” b This summer, Renée spoke o at “Teaching with Testimony,” r a weeklong workshop at the s Institute for middle school- g and high school educators in I Southern California. The partic- T ipants—who came from public w and private schools, and teach subjects ranging from history and the social sciences to language arts and literature—were drawn by a common interest in reaching students through the use of Holocaust eyewitness testimony. “When students see testimony, their reaction is amazing on so many levels,” said Jeremy Howard, a teacher from Francis Parker School in San Diego. “You get higher-level questions, questions that are insightful…. What [the workshop] will allow us to do is to take what the archive has to offer and bring it into the classroom, take it back to our schools. And we all have colleagues who teach other sub- le jects, we have colleagues in m other schools. [The impact will] t n 1944, Renée Firestone was deported from Czechoslovakia to the just keep blossoming.” Auschwitz-II Birkenau death camp. Fifty years later, she returned. The workshop provided w i training on search and retrieval t “I learned something here, but I wonder whether the world learned methodology and techniques s anything,” Renée said as she walked the grounds of Auschwitz. “You look for integrating testimony across t a curriculum. It explored the a around the world today, you wonder, ‘What did we learn from the Holocaust? pedagogical potential of testi- t What did we learn from this place?’” Renée has dedicated her life to mony in a variety of subject w a educating young people; in 1994, she gave her testimony to the Institute. s

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areas, including visual- and media literacy, and examined e testimony as a primary source will that can corroborate, enrich, ly. and even challenge the written historical record. “Teaching with Testimony” was the inaugural event of the Leichtag Family Foundation Master Teacher Program, which will enable the Institute to begin building a national cadre e of educators who create class- ” room resources based on the life stories in the archive. The program is a component of the Institute’s recently launched ic- Teacher Innovation Network, c whose members will become

re n Facing page, from left: Educators Merri Weir, Teresa Hill, and Paige Leven at the “Teaching with Testimony” workshop. Left: Renée Firestone, a survivor of the Holocaust, speaks with educators at the “Teaching with Testimony” workshop. Above: Educator Jeremy Howard views testimony. (Photos by Kim Fox) o- n “What [the workshop] will allow us to do is to is take what the archive has to offer and bring it into the classroom, take it back to our schools. ns, And we all have colleagues who teach other …. subjects, we have colleagues in other schools. w [The impact will] just keep blossoming.” it — Jeremy Howard k e b- leaders and advocates of testi- said Stephen Smith, Institute shown a passion for testimony- To support the Teacher mony-based classroom instruc- Executive Director. “We are based education which is Innovation Network, visit ll] tion in their school districts. grateful for the Leichtag Family exciting to observe among college.usc.edu/vhi/donate. “By engaging teachers Foundation’s leadership at this individuals who work at the For photos and video from the who share our commitment to early stage and look forward frontline of the battle for young workshop or to join the Teacher Innovation Network, visit al testimony-based education, by to what the future will yield hearts and minds. The Leichtag college.usc.edu/vhi/education/ supporting their efforts to bring through the Teacher Innovation Family Foundation is pleased teachingwithtestimony. ss testimony into their classrooms Network.” to partner with the Institute as and encourage their colleagues “We are so impressed by it reaches out to this phenome- to do the same, the Institute the caliber of the program and nal group of teachers, and will help them positively affect the teachers who participated in through them to their students, an ever-growing number of this inaugural workshop,” said their colleagues, and their students and communities,” Leichtag Family Foundation communities.” President Jim Farley. “Besides being talented, they have

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their memories of life before, distinguished leaders who during, and after the Holocaust have shown a commitment to in perpetuity. For this and other change through action, we have humanitarian achievements as once again chosen a highly a filmmaker and philanthropist, deserving champion of free- the National Constitution dom,” Clinton said. Center honored Spielberg Accepting the award, Steven Spielberg Honored with its 2009 Liberty Medal Spielberg said, “I am thrilled to N in October. be honored by my dear friend, with Liberty Medal for Excerpts from four of the President Clinton, and to be A Institute’s testimonies were recognized by an organization Humanitarian Work shown at the award ceremony unprecedented in its devotion to in Philadelphia, along with the most relevant and significant scenes from The Color document in our nation’s history. Purple, Schindler’s List, It’s truly humbling to be added Amistad, and Saving to the distinguished list of past

“Continuing in the National Constitution Center’s rich tradition of honoring distinguished leaders who have shown a commitment to change through action, we have once again chosen a highly deserving champion of freedom.” — President Bill Clinton

Stu His Ber Un Above: Steven Spielberg speaks at the Liberty Medal award ceremony he Nazis did every- at the National Constitution Center (Photo by Carol Feely). Right, left thing in their power to right: Itka Zygmuntowicz, a “ to dehumanize and Holocaust survivor; Steven Spielberg, t Kate Capshaw, and President destroy. This is the Bill Clinton. (Photo by Susan reason why, when they called Beard Design) me Number 25673, I said I am not a number,” Holocaust survivor Itka Zygmuntowicz said in her testimony. “…My family taught me that who I am— my mentshlekhkeyt, my humane- ness—does not depend on Private Ryan, four of Spielberg’s recipients, a group of men and how others treat me but on films that deal with themes of women whom I admire deeply how I treat others.” human rights and the struggle for their commitment to educat- Steven Spielberg established against intolerance and tyranny. ing the world about the impor- the Survivors of the Shoah President Bill Clinton, tance of freedom and the Visual History Foundation (now Chairman of the National blessings of liberty.”

the USC Shoah Foundation Constitution Center, presented Past recipients of the Liberty T Institute) so that individuals Spielberg with the Liberty Medal include Nelson Mandela, a like Itka would be able to share Medal. “Continuing in the Shimon Peres, Kofi Annan, and in T National Constitution Center’s Sandra Day O’Connor. v rich tradition of honoring te

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has made it easier for people to work with the testimonies in Preserving the ve ways that meet their needs.” Testimonies Additionally, the Leo Rosner Foundation has funded To ensure that the life stories of an enhancement that allows Holocaust survivors and other users to share projects with oth- witnesses endure in perpetuity, the o New Visual History ers—thus greatly increasing the archive’s potential as a resource Institute is copying the master Archive Search Interface for collaborative research and recordings of the testimonies from education. videotape—which deteriorates over to time—to an electronic format, called ant Access Site News Motion JPEG 2000. These preserva- ry. Meanwhile, the testimonies tion copies of the testimonies retain d of Holocaust survivors and other the picture and sound quality of the t witnesses are enhancing pro- originals and will not experience grams and making new educational opportunities possible at signal degradation over time. institutions around the world. In the fall, Charles University 22% 78% (Prague, Czech Republic) became the third institution in Europe with access to the Percent remaining (182,558 tapes) Visual History Archive. In the Percent complete (52,486 tapes) United States, Clark University (Worcester, Massachusetts) Progress so far also gained access. • 52,486 tapes out of 235,044 Between April and May, transferred Students access the Visual the University of California, • 12,005 interviews out of History Archive at Freie Universität t institutions connected San Diego (UCSD) hosted Berlin. (Photo courtesy of Freie 51,682 preserved Universität Berlin) to the Visual History its second annual “Holocaust aArchive, a redesigned Living History Workshop,” To facilitate access to the user interface is which seeks to teach the histo- testimonies by students, academics, making it easier to learn from ry of the Holocaust through and researchers around the world, the nearly 52,000 testimonies interactions with survivors the Institute is making additional of Holocaust survivors and and through the use of the copies of each testimony for use on other witnesses. Institute’s archive of testimony. personal computers and television The new interface features In February 2010, Central in the following formats: key improvements. These European University (CEU) include a more streamlined in Budapest, Hungary will • MPEG-1 structure to reduce the need welcome educators of all disci- • MPEG-2 to navigate through multiple plines to “New Sources and • QuickTime webpages, the ability to book- Methodologies for Jewish • Flash d mark search results and video Studies,” a weeklong workshop • Windows Media Player y segments to save them for to explore ways to build course- at- future use, and the option to work around visual, oral, and Visit college.usc.edu/vhi/preservation - password-protect projects. written accounts of Holocaust to learn more about the ongoing “We wanted to provide a eyewitnesses, with special preservation effort. more flexible, intuitive, and emphasis placed on the testi- ty The entire archive is now robust tool so that research in monies in the Institute’s Visual ela, available to users at 24 the archive will yield richer History Archive. In April 2009, nd institutions on four continents. learning experiences,” said CEU became the second To find the site nearest you, visit college.usc.edu/vhi/ Samuel Paul, Institute Associate institution in Europe with testimonylocations. Director of Digital Resources. access to the archive. “The redesigned interface

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dent and board chairman Charitable Foundation is asso- of Friends of Israeli Defense ciated with the International Forces, a support organization Rescue Committee, Refugees for Israeli soldiers and their International, CARE, the World families. Food Program, the National September 11 Memorial and ACE Charitable Museum, and the Conservation New Funds to Foundation to Support Fund. Local Rwandan “Like the testimonies of Pursue Mission Testimony Project survivors of the Holocaust, the The ACE Charitable testimonies of Rwandan geno- Foundation has made a contri- cide survivors also have world- bution that will enable the changing potential,” explained Donor Highlight: which is held by Dr. Wolf Institute to collect testimony Eden Kratchman, Executive Vera and Paul Guerin Gruner. Vera has cited her from Rwandan Tutsi genocide Director of the ACE Charitable father as a source of inspiration survivors living in California. Foundation. “We are very proud for her own legacy of giving. “This donation from the ACE to be partnering with the USC The Guerins have provided Charitable Foundation is espe- Shoah Foundation Institute on support for the Institute since cially significant,” said Karen such an important project.” 2005. “Without people like Vera Jungblut, Institute Director of and Paul, the Institute would be Research and Documentation. Making a Difference: unable to respond to the urgent “Not only will it allow us to Harvey Chaplin need for tolerance education,” begin preserving memories of said Steven Klappholz, Institute survivors of the Rwandan Tutsi Executive Director of genocide living in and around Development. “Thanks to Los Angeles; it will also help us their generous commitment to continue to build capacity for “As the child of a Holocaust our work, the testimonies are the larger Rwandan testimony survivor, I want every genera- making a difference in the lives project we are undertaking with tion to learn from what they of young people around the IBUKA, the umbrella organiza- experienced,” Vera Guerin said. world by encouraging them to tion representing Rwandan “Through the educational become more tolerant and genocide survivors.” use of their testimonies, the responsible individuals.” The ACE Charitable survivors become teachers who In addition to supporting Foundation is committed to can help students around the the Institute, Vera served for the health and well-being of “The life story of a single world to become mindful of four years on the board of less-fortunate individuals and witness of the Holocaust can the terrible consequences of United Hostesses’ Charities at communities in geographic make all the difference in help- prejudice and intolerance.” Cedars-Sinai Medical Center regions where ACE employees ing young people choose Vera’s father, Nathan Shapell and received the Evelyn live and work. Priority focus is acceptance over intolerance and (1922-2007), lost most of his Clayburgh Award for “extraordi- given to projects that address action over indifference,” said family in the Holocaust. He nary service” as president of the problems in the areas of educa- Harvey Chaplin. “That is why survived Buchenwald and Women’s Guild Lung Institute. tion, the environment, poverty, it is so important to support the Auschwitz, and after the war She now serves on the boards and health. In addition to USC Shoah Foundation became a public defender for of Cedars-Sinai, the Women’s supporting the USC Shoah Institute as it strives to intro- displaced persons in Germany. Guild Lung Institute, and the Foundation Institute, the ACE duce the testimonies to After immigrating to the U.S. Skirball Cultural Center. Paul is students around the world.” with his wife, Lillian, and a member of the board of gover- Chaplin’s generous support daughter, Vera, in 1953, Shapell nors at Cedars-Sinai, where he of the Institute has helped cre- became a successful real estate has been a member of the exec- ate opportunities for Holocaust developer and philanthropist. utive committee. The Guerins survivors and other witnesses His many contributions include also provide scholarships for the to teach young people through the funding and establishment Bob Shapell School of Social the educational use of their of the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Work at Tel Aviv University testimonies. “We are so thank- Jewish Studies, USC College (an endowment established by ful to Harvey for his commit- of Letters, Arts & Sciences, Vera’s father), and Paul is presi- ment to our mission,” said

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ci- Steven Klappholz, Institute CEO of Southern Wine and Vice President and Vice Executive Director of Spirits of America. In addition President of the company’s How You Can Development. “He under- to supporting the Institute, he Wine Division, have helped Make a Difference ld stands that the testimonies has contributed to a number of Southern Wine and Spirits of do have the power to change national and international non- America raise millions of dollars One person really can make a differ- the world, one life at a time.” profit organizations over the for the Weizmann Institute of ence. The USC Shoah Foundation on Chaplin is Chairman and years. He and Mel Dick, Sr. Science in Rehovot, Israel. Institute counts on your support to continue its important work to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and e - bigotry. - leadership at pivotal moments Cash Donations: Gifts may be d Extraordinary Leadership: in our history; Bruce has helped made by cash, check, or credit card. Bruce Ramer guide the Institute through its e birth and growth, and he is Pledges: You may wish to make a ud unwavering in his commitment gift to the Institute which is paid C to its maturation.” over several years, following a pay- n Born and raised in ment schedule that is most conven- f we turn our backs New Jersey, Ramer is the ient for you. on the memories of senior partner at the law “ Holocaust survivors and firm Gang, Tyre, Ramer i Planned Gifts: Planned gifts might other witnesses, human- & Brown. He is a mem- help you reduce or avoid income-, ity will face a future in which ber of the Council on gift-, and inheritance taxes. Planned the pitfalls of hatred and indif- Foreign Relations, a gifts include wills, charitable remain- ference remain obscured by our member of the Board of ignorance of the past,” said the Pacific Council on der trusts, charitable lead trusts, and Bruce Ramer. “But if we each annuities. You may wish to consider heed the lessons the survivor “If we each heed funding a planned gift with such generation has to teach us, we the lessons the assets as cash, life insurance policies, can learn to make individual survivor genera- real property, retirement plans, or choices which will bring us all marketable securities. closer to a better tomorrow.” tion has to teach A founding member of the Now a member of the USC us, we can learn to Memorial or Tribute Gifts: Board of Directors of the Shoah Shoah Foundation Institute’s make individual choic- Contributions can be made to honor Foundation, Bruce Ramer Board of Councilors, Ramer es which will bring us special occasions, such as birthdays, provided early leadership when played a key role on the search all closer to a better weddings, or births, as well as to p- the Foundation undertook the committee for a new executive tomorrow.” memorialize a friend or family mem- monumental project of collecting director in 2008-2009, helping ber. The Institute will mail a tribute nd testimony from nearly 52,000 to usher in a new era of leader- — Bruce Ramer Holocaust survivors and other ship with the appointments of card announcing the gift. y witnesses. And as a member Smith and Managing Director International Policy, and a for- In-kind Gifts: The Institute accepts he of the USC Board of Trustees, Kim Simon. For his tireless mer national president of the gifts of goods or services that fulfill he was instrumental in finding work and leadership on behalf American Jewish Committee. In programmatic needs. a permanent home for the of the Institute, which also addition to sitting on the Foundation—and more impor- includes major fundraising Institute’s Board of Councilors For more information, contact: tantly, for the testimonies— achievements and contributions and the USC Board of Trustees, Steven Klappholz t as part of the University of as a donor, Ramer has been rec- Ramer is chair of the USC Executive Director of Development re- Southern California. “Integration ognized with the Ambassadors Institute on Entertainment Law USC Shoah Foundation Institute for ust into USC has guaranteed the for Humanity Award. and Business, co-chair of the s lasting preservation of the “Many people have devoted USC Annenberg School for Visual History and Education gh testimonies, and it has brought time and resources to our mis- Communication & Journalism’s University of Southern California them within reach of more sion over the years. Bruce Executive Committee, and 650 W. 35th Street, Suite 114 k- people than ever before,” said Ramer has been part of the founding chair of the Geffen Los Angeles, CA 90089-2571 - Stephen Smith, Institute founding team that made this Playhouse. He is also a board Phone: (213) 740-6001 Executive Director. possible,” said Smith. “For fif- member of the Corporation teen years, he has provided for Public Broadcasting. www.college.usc.edu/vhi 11 121056_16pgr_PF_Winter 12/10/09 4:31 PM Page 12

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Renée Semik, a teacher at Santa Monica High School, and a member of the Institute’s Teacher Innovation Network, uses the Visual History Archive (Photo by Kim Fox). Turn to page six for the full story.