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 pastforward, Winter 2007 1 V ISUAL H ISTORY IN THE C LASSROOM 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;