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

Summer 2007

Dear Friends,The USC Shoah Foundation Institute’sarchive holds nearly 52,000 testimonies—almost 120,000 hours of ordinary humanfaces and voices describing survival in the

most extraordinary and inhuman of circum-stances. Yet, memory that is recorded butunrevealed is not memory at all; it is forget-ting. To ensure that the voices of survivors

and witnesses are heard, the Institute createseducational products utilizing the testi-monies, and trains teachers in their use inclassrooms all over the world. You will readabout some of these resources in the pages ofthis newsletter. You will also read about the

growing access to the entire archive at insti-tutions near and far; most recently, MonashUniversity in Melbourne, Australia, gainedaccess to the full archive of testimonies (seepage 7). Such projects are possible only withyour support.

We are also conscious of how much morework lies ahead in pursuit of our mission toovercome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry.We each have a moral responsibility to allthose who have suffered the violence andracism of the modern world, whether theyare Jews, Armenians, Cambodians,Rwandans, or Darfuris who survived geno-cides, or South Africans still living in theaftermath of apartheid and the struggle todestroy it, or African Americans whoremember life in a viciously segregated societythat called itself a democracy.

To that end, the Institute is initiating animportant new phase in its work. Our workon the Holocaust will continue, but we planto join it to our effort to collaborate withothers around the world to record and to

disseminate the memories of other peoplewho have been the target of genocide andoppression. We have begun very promisingconversations with colleagues in SouthAfrica, Rwanda, and Cambodia, and infuture issues of PastForward we will report

FO U N DAT I O N NE W S

“We know we have an opportunity that no othergeneration in human history has had.”— Douglas Greenberg

USC Shoah Foundat ion Inst i tute for V isual Histor y and Educat ion TM www.usc.edu/vhi

New Challenges, New Opportunities Summer 2007

(L to R) Eric Kabera, Director, Rwanda Film Festival; Douglas Greenberg, Institute ExecutiveDirector; Francois Ngarambe, former president, Ibuka; Donald Miller, Professor of Religious Studies,University of Southern California. Ibuka, which means ‘remember,’ is an umbrella organization for thesurvivor organizations in Rwanda, created in 1995 in order to address issues of justice, memory, andsocial and economic problems faced by survivors of the Rwandan genocide.

on them in detail. I recently made my sec-ond trip to Rwanda to meet with colleaguesfrom survivor organizations to discuss aproject of recording testimonies of survivorsof the Rwandan genocide. I was also invitedto speak at the third annual Rwanda FilmFestival, where two of the Institute’s films—Volevo solo vivere (I Only Wanted to Live),and Nazvy svoie im’ia (Spell Your Name)—were screened.

We know we have an opportunity that noother generation in human history has had:to record the testimonies of men and womenfor whom racism and violence are not vagueor abstract historical shadows but dark andpainfully lived experiences; men and womenwhose life stories, if seen and heard, couldchange the world. This is the work to whichwe are dedicated, and it is the work in whichwe hope to enlist your encouragement andyour support.

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Douglas Greenberg

Executive Director Professor of History

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T he cover photograph is of a sign on a church in

Nyamata, Rwanda, which was the site of a massacre of

more than 10,000 people during the genocide in 1994.

Institute Executive Director Douglas Greenberg took the

photo during a trip to Rwanda in May 2006. The words

“Never Again” appear on signs throughout Rwanda,

reminders of the genocide and a call to action for an end to violence, racism,

and intolerance, not only in Rwanda but throughout the world.

BOARD OF COUNCILORSSteven Spielberg

Honorary ChairEdgar M. Bronfman

Honorary Co-chairRenée Crown

Honorary Co-chairLew Wasserman

Honorary Co-chairIn Memoriam

Wallis AnnenbergRussel BernardGerald BreslauerJerome CobenStephen CozenSusan CrownDavid EismanPhyllis EpsteinEmanuel GerardAndrea GordonDouglas GreenbergEric GreenbergYossie HollanderRobert KatzWilliam LauderLee LibermanSkip PaulBruce RamerHarry RobinsonMichael RutmanJerry SpeyerErna ViterbiCasey WassermanHarold Williams

FOUNDING EXECUTIVEDIRECTORS OF THESHOAH FOUNDATIONJune BeallorJames Moll

FOUNDING ADVISORYCOMMITTEE OF THESHOAH FOUNDATIONKaren KushellBranko LustigGerald R. Molen

EXECUTIVE STAFFExecutive DirectorDouglas Greenberg

Sherry Bard, Director ofEducation

Sam Gustman, ChiefTechnology Officer

Karen Jungblut, Director of Archival Access andSpecial Projects

Steven Klappholz,Executive Director ofDevelopment

Kim Simon, Director ofInternational Programsand Communications

Ari Zev, Director ofAdministration

On the Cover

past forwardEDITORTalia [email protected]

MANAGING EDITORKim Simon

DESIGNLeslie Baker Graphic Design

PHOTOSMark Berndt, Steve Cohn,Douglas Greenberg, BrendaHaggard, Adam Kenner, JeffKravitz, Jason Merritt, MichaelSugarman, Jay Weiss

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s Summer 2007

In February, the Institute’s

Director of Education,

Sherry Bard, and Training

Specialist, Chaim Singer-

Frankes, traveled to the

Sherwin Miller Museum

of Jewish Art in Tulsa,

Oklahoma, to conduct

a training session for

area educators.

The participants—30 middle school, high school, and community

college teachers—worked with 14 testimonies from the Institute’s

archive that comprise a collection held by the Museum.

“This workshop was valuable because it taught us how to build

lessons around audio-visual testimony clips,”

said participant Cathy Luccock. “Many students

today lose interest in a lecture after 20 minutes;

it is helpful to have springboard activities to

incorporate into lessons. The testimonies will engage students.

Students will hear and see someone who lived through events

they have, until now, only read about. It brings a new dimension

into the classroom.”

Funding for the workshop came from the Anne and Henry Zarrow

Foundation, and the Maxine and Jack Zarrow Family Foundation.

“We are proud to support this important work in Tulsa. By introduc-

ing to our teachers and students testimonies of Holocaust survivors

and other witnesses, we are certain that it will have a positive

impact on the entire community,” Henry Zarrow explained.

Above Left: (L to R) Educators Olin Holmes, Debbie Givens, and AimeeRoulac view testimony in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

to highlight the depth and adaptability of thecurriculum so that teachers of different gradelevels and subject areas understand how bestto mine its resources,” said Sherry Bard, theInstitute’s Director of Education.

At the first National Teacher Trainingseminar in New York, the Institute’s TrainingSpecialist, Chaim Singer-Frankes, joined

Since launching in 2005, Echoes andReflections—A MultimediaCurriculum On The Holocaust,created in partnership with theAnti-Defamation League (ADL),

Yad Vashem, and the USC Shoah FoundationInstitute, the partners have conducted morethan 90 training programs and trained morethan 3000 educators on the curriculum’s use inthe classroom.

In March, the partners launched aNational Teacher Training program as part ofa nationwide initiative to train educators inusing Echoes and Reflections. The trainingteam includes experienced trainers from eachpartner organization. “The team provideseducators with hands-on exercises designed

colleagues Shulamit Imber and StephanieMcMahon-Kaye from Yad Vashem, andDeborah Batiste and Dan Tarplin from ADL, totrain more than 100 educators representing 42schools. During the daylong training, instructorsmodeled lessons from the Echoes and Reflectionscurriculum, giving educators the opportunity toabsorb the curriculum and to learn best prac-tices and methodologies for teaching it.

The American Society for Yad Vashem host-ed the New York seminar. Several weeks later,the second training took place in Scranton,Pennsylvania; additional trainings are plannedfor 2007 in cities across the United States. TheEchoes and Reflections program is funded byDana and Yossie Hollander with additionalfunding from the Braun Holocaust Institute -Glick Center for Holocaust Studies.

Above Center: Project Director Dan Tarplin ofthe ADL presents to educators in New York.

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To learn more about Echoes and Reflections and teacher

training sessions, please visit www.echoesandreflections.org.

If you are interested in funding workshops like these, please

contact Steven Klappholz, at [email protected] or 213-740-6051.

Educators in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Receive Training on Visual History

Echoes and Reflections National Teacher Training Program


In April, the Institute launched itsTestimony to Tolerance Initiative inLittle Rock, Arkansas. Little Rock isthe third city—after Jackson,Mississippi, and Des Moines, Iowa—

in which the Institute has launched theInitiative, a community-based and intergener-ational outreach and education program.

The Testimony to Tolerance Initiative will reachmiddle and high schools in Little Rock and thesurrounding areas. First, the Institute provided aset of 28 testimonies to the Central ArkansasLibrary System (CALS). The collection includesthe experiences of Jewish survivors, liberators,rescuers and aid providers, a Sinti (“Gypsy”) sur-vivor, a Jehovah’s Witness survivor, and a warcrimes trial participant.

In the next phase of the Initiative, Institutestaff will train local educators on how to usethe CALS collection of testimonies in theirown classroom lessons. The Institute will pro-vide additional products and resources to support teachers in their work.

“The Testimony to Tolerance Initiativeis designed to equip diverse communi-ties throughout the United States with atool to nurture responsible and commit-ted citizens dedicated to a society free ofprejudice, intolerance, and bigotry,” saidDouglas Greenberg, Professor ofHistory and Executive Director of theUSC Shoah Foundation Institute.

“The Central Arkansas LibrarySystem has a long history of promotingmutual understanding,” said CALSDirector Bobby Roberts. “The Testimony toTolerance Initiative will help us continue to pro-vide opportunities and materials for peoplefrom all backgrounds to learn from each other.”

The Testimony to Tolerance Initiative in Little Rock, Arkansas, is funded with generousgrants from the Winthrop RockefellerFoundation, L’Oréal USA, and the JewishFederation of Arkansas.

Above: (L to R) Steven Klappholz, ExecutiveDirector of Development, USC ShoahFoundation Institute; Bonnie Nickol,President, Jewish Federation of Arkansas;Dave Coombs, Director, North Little RockArkansas Human Resources, L’Oréal, USA;Bill Rahn, Senior Program Officer, WinthropRockefeller Foundation; Rita Fagan,Executive Director, Jewish Federation ofArkansas; Bobby Roberts, Director, CentralArkansas Library System.

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Testimony to Tolerance InitiativeComes to Little Rock

Today,” said Sandy Rubenstein,greeting 300 seventh andeighth grade students at theHorace Mann School, inRiverdale, New York, “I share

my father’s story. It is about prejudice and evil,about the perils of silence, and about inspira-tion and hope. It is my hope that you may betouched by his experiences. It is my hope thatyou become more aware of the choices you canmake in your own lives. It is my hope that inthe future, you will become more aware of theneed to act to make your world a more tolerantplace so that the prevention of genocide andcrimes against humanity can become a reality.”

Rubenstein, whose father is a Holocaustsurvivor, is a teacher at Horace Mann, anddelivered a presentation to the middle school

the power of visual history: testimo-ny about the day the German armyoccupied Radom, the city in Polandwhere her father spent his child-hood; about his three siblings, noneof whom survived the war; andabout having the will to go on.

“My father passed away in1999, but his voice and presencewere so powerful that studentswere riveted as he spoke,” she said.“Through his testimony, studentsgrasped the magnitude of one

story, intensely personal, and at the sametime, so globally significant.”

Above Left: Sandy Rubenstein at HoraceMann School, in Riverdale, New York.

The Power of One Survivor’s Story“

students about her father’s experiences before,during, and after the war.

Throughout Rubenstein’s presentation,she showed clips from her father’s testimony,contained in the Institute’s archive, highlighting

in classroom lessons,” said Gorwitz deShneiderman. “Making educational use of the testimonies is critical if we want toreach young people and make a differencein their values and their day-to-daybehavior: what they choose to say, to do,or whether they remain silent.”

The workshop for the Institute's LatinAmerican Regional Consultants was madepossible with generous funding fromInstitute supporters Cynthia and SheldonStone and Jane-Howard Hammerstein.

(L to R) Anita Pinkuss, Giny Gorwitz deShneiderman, Kátia Lerner, GracielaNabel de Jinich.

Institute Welcomes Latin American Representatives

In December, the USC ShoahFoundation Institute’s RegionalConsultants from Latin America cameto Los Angeles for a workshop on theuse of testimony in the classroom. Theconsultants—Graciela Nabel de Jinich,

from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Kátia Lerner, fromRio de Janeiro, Brazil; Anita Pinkuss, from São Paulo, Brazil; and Giny Gorwitz deShneiderman, from Caracas, Venezuela—haveworked with the Institute for more than a decade.Today, they represent the Institute and work withlocal partners to make the testimonies available forresearch and education in their local countries.

“It is very rewarding to see the testimoniesthat we worked so hard to collect being used


“Today, my classmates and I watched Children from the Abyss. This

film tells how 65 years ago, millions of Jews perished: old people

and children, women and men, talented and average. They rejoiced

in the sun and wind, fell in love and argued, expected and raised

children—in short, lived.

Maybe they even dreamt

of leaving their legacy in

history. None of them

thought, however, this

legacy would be one of a

Holocaust victim.”

This quote is from the

essay To Remember in

Order to Live, by Dmitrii

Suvorov, a 16-year-old stu-

dent from Moscow. Suvorov is one of the winners of the fifth

annual Holocaust Writing Contest, organized by the Russian

Holocaust Center in Moscow. The awards ceremony, part of a larg-

er event recognizing the International Day of Commemoration in

memory of the victims of the Holocaust, took place this January at

the Writers’ House in Moscow.

The contest awards prizes in various categories, including one

dedicated to Children from the Abyss, a Russian-language docu-

mentary produced by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.

Approximately 700 students in Russia viewed the film in 2006, and

120 shared their reactions to it in essays submitted for the contest.

The contestants included students and teachers from 10 coun-

tries. Aleksandra Kupro, from Cherniakhovsk, Russia, and Aleksei

Gorin, from Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, received recognition as the

second- and third-place winners for their essays on Children from

the Abyss.

Feliks Dukhovny, Institute Regional Consultant in Russia, and

Pavel Chukhraj, director of Children from the Abyss, attended the

ceremony. “It is important for young people in Russia, and students

in particular, to learn about the events of the Holocaust and to

have the opportunity to digest the information and react to it in

words,” Dukhovny said.

“The collaboration between the Institute and the Russian

Holocaust Center is very important for our center,” said Dr. Ilya

Altman, Co-Chairman, Russian Holocaust Center. “Children from

the Abyss is a powerful film, and students clearly react to it, many

of them through writing an essay for the contest. I look forward to

working with the Institute to build relationships with more educa-

tors in Russia, so that additional students can be reached.”

Above Left: Children from the Abyss director Pavel Chukhraj, secondfrom left, presents a prize to Dmitrii Suvorov, one of the winners ofthe Russian Holocaust Center’s fifth annual Holocaust Writing Contest.

Students Respond to Children from the Abyss


Eleven institutions worldwide have access to the entire archive:

Duke University in Durham, North Carolina

Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton,Florida

Freie Universitaet Berlin in Berlin, Germany

Monash University in Melbourne, Australia

North Carolina State University in Raleigh,North Carolina

Rice University in Houston, Texas

University of California, San Diego in SanDiego, California

University of Michigan in Ann Arbor,Michigan

University of Minnesota in Minneapolis,Minnesota

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hillin Chapel Hill, North Carolina

University of Southern California in LosAngeles, California

One hundred fourteenteacher trainings for edu-cators in 13 countrieshave incorporated theuse of visual history testi-mony in classrooms.

The Institute has pro-duced 11 documentaryfilms, which have beenbroadcast in 50 coun-tries and subtitled in28 languages.

The Institute has delivered 75 collections of tes-timony from its archive to museums, libraries,schools, and other institutions in 22 countries.

Worldwide Outreach

The testimonies in the Institute’s archive are accessedby high school teachers, university professors, students,researchers, and the general public for educational and scholarly purposes at universities, libraries,museums, and other institutions worldwide.


Forty-one universitycourses have includedthe use of testimonyfrom the Institute’sarchive.

The Institute hasproduced 19 educa-tional resources foruse in primary andsecondary schoolclassrooms. Theseresources are avail-

able in 78,000 schools world-wide, with a reach of morethan two million students.

UNISA Colleagues Visit USC Shoah Foundation Institute

In February, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute welcomed colleagues from the University ofSouth Africa (UNISA). The two groups explored ways in which they might collaborate to supportscholarship and research in South Africa, including the possibility of providing digital access to the testimonies in the Institute’s archive.

One of the UNISA colleagues, Professor Abebe Zegeye, communicated, “Our goal is to bridge theknowledge gap between the highly advanced discipline of Holocaust studies and the pioneeringresearch being carried out on Africa’s contemporary and historical genocides. We are committed topromoting the message and spirit of this pioneering program by bringing the lessons of the Naziperiod—both the horrors inflicted by the perpetrators and the message of hope and humancourage expressed by the survivors—to African publics across the continent.”

Above: (L to R) Kim Feinberg, Institute representative, and CEO, The Tomorrow Trust; Professor Abebe Zegeye, Chairman of Holocaust and Genocide Studies,UNISA; Issie Kirsh, Director, PRIMEDIA Ltd., Chairman, Primedia Foundation; Deon van der Merwe, Director, ICT Department, UNISA; Professor PamelaRyan, Director, School for Graduate Studies, College of Human Sciences, UNISA; Professor M S Makhanya, Executive Dean, College of Human Sciences, UNISA.

TES T I M O N I ES ARO U N D T H E WO R L D

In July, DK Publishing, the award-winning family reference publisher,will release Holocaust: The Events and Their Impact on Real People,a book for young adults, in association with the USC ShoahFoundation Institute. Almost 200 pages in length, the book incorpo-rates historical documents and photographs of art, artifacts, locations,and memorials. Quotes from Holocaust survivors and other witnesses

from the Institute’s archive are interwoven throughout the book. An accompa-nying DVD contains clips of testimony from some of the featured survivorsand witnesses, giving further dimension to the words on the pages.

“Working with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute to produce our bookhas been a dream,” said Beth Sutinis, Publishing Director, Children’s Books,DK Publishing. “In marrying the visually driven content and design of twoorganizations committed to quality communication, DK and the Institute havecreated a history book unique in every way: image led, aimed at young readers,and unflinching in its approach to showing and telling the stories of the people who lived through the Holocaust.”

Steven Spielberg, founder of the Shoah Foundation, commented, “Whilethis book is an authoritative history of the Holocaust, which combines textand images in an altogether uncommon way, it is also a human record of theShoah and its meaning. These pages also contain the faces and the words ofmen and women who survived the murderous anti-Semitic world of Nazi-dominated Europe.”

Holocaust: The Events and Their Impact on Real People will be released in theUnited States and Canada in July, and in the United Kingdom in August. Thebook will be released in additional countries, including Norway and Holland,in early 2008, in the language native to each country of release.


Testimonies Enhance New Book for Young Readers

Nearly 8000 miles fromthe USC ShoahFoundation Institute inLos Angeles, California,is Monash University inMelbourne, Australia.

Though the two universities are on differentsides of the world, today, the Monash commu-nity has access to a resource also available atUSC—the Institute’s Visual History Archive.Monash University, attended by 50,000 stu-dents on eight campuses, has become the firstinstitution in Australia—and the second out-side the United States—to have access to theentire archive.

Now, students, professors, scholars, andresearchers at Monash can access the nearly52,000 testimonies contained within thearchive for educational and scholarly purposes.Professor Andrew Markus, AcademicDirector, Australian Centre for the Study ofJewish Civilisation, at Monash University, saidthe archive is having an impact on the univer-sity community. “The Visual History Archiverepresents one of the most important historicalcollections of the late 20th century. MonashUniversity’s access to this archive enables anumber of teaching and research initiatives,including a master’s program in Holocaust andgenocide studies. The archive also supplementsteaching in a range of courses and programs.”

Access at Monash University is being fundedby Lee Liberman, of the LJCB group of com-panies, and the Pratt Family Foundation. “Theaccessibility of the USC Shoah FoundationInstitute archives at Monash University will bethe first significant opportunity Australianswill have to engage with the genocide perpe-trated against the European Jewish communi-ty,” said Liberman. “Most importantly, theInstitute’s archive will provide an opportunityto educate Australians about the fundamentalimportance of apprehending the racial divideas we attempt to build stronger societies thatengender a legacy of tolerance, now and forfuture generations.”

“It is especially fitting that MonashUniversity, Australia’s largest state university,should now become involved,” Sam Lipski,CEO of the Pratt Family Foundation, said.“Firstly, the university’s very name honorsGeneral Sir John Monash, a great AustralianJew, and makes it one of the few anywhere tocarry a Jewish identity in its title. Secondly,outside of Israel, Australia has been home tomore Holocaust survivors per capita of thelocal Jewish population than anywhere else.The Pratt Family Foundation is proud to part-ner with Lee Liberman in such a significantproject of remembrance.”

In May, Professor Richard Larkins,President and Vice-Chancellor of MonashUniversity, hosted an official launch of the


Monash University, First in Australia To Gain Access to the Archive

archive’s use. “Monash takes great pride in itspartnership with the USC Shoah FoundationInstitute. In addition to the valuable teachingand research opportunities within theUniversity, Monash is able to use the archiveto reach out into the Australian community.”

Professor of History and Institute ExecutiveDirector Douglas Greenberg attended thelaunch. “In Australia, the Institute conductednearly 2500 interviews with survivors and otherwitnesses of the Holocaust. These testimonies,which include stories of life after the war, are partof Australia’s history. We are thrilled to partnerwith Monash University to bring these, and all ofthe testimonies in the archive, to Australia.”

Left: Professor Edwina Cornish, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice President (Research),Monash University.Center: L to R: Professor David Copolov,Interim Executive Director, Australian Centrefor the Study of Jewish Civilisation, MonashUniversity; Professor Richard Larkins, Presidentand Vice-Chancellor, Monash University;Professor Douglas Greenberg, Institute ExecutiveDirector; Lee Liberman, USC Shoah FoundationInstitute, Board of Councilors.Right: Associate Professor Mark Baker,Australian Centre for the Study of JewishCivilisation, Monash University.

Institute Accepts Award fromArgentine SenateIn December 2006, the senate of Argentinahonored the Institute with the Reconocimiento ala lucha por la plena vigencia de los DerechosHumanos award in recognition for its work tocollect and preserve testimonies of 52,000Holocaust survivors and witnesses. GracielaNabel de Jinich, the Institute’s RegionalConsultant in Argentina, accepted the awardfrom Argentine Vice President Daniel Scioli.

Institute Honored in Lerici, ItalyIn May, the city of Lerici, Italy, presented theLerici Città di Pace e di Poesia award to the

Institute, at a ceremonyhonoring artistic workthat makes a contributiontoward the advancementof peace. The award rec-ognizes both theInstitute’s work and direc-tor Mimmo Calopresti,who made the 2006 film,Volevo solo vivere (I OnlyWanted to Live), using testimonies from theInstitute’s archive.

Visual History Archive Earns Nod fromAssociation of Research LibrariesIn March, the Association of Research Libraries(ARL) selected the Visual History Archive asone of the special collections to be highlighted

Developments at Home and Abroadin its 75th anniversary book, CelebratingResearch: Rare Collections from the Membership ofthe Association of Research Libraries. The ARL isNorth America’s leading library organizationdevoted to the promotion of teaching, research,and scholarly communication.

In Observance of January 27In observance of the International Day ofCommemoration in memory of the victimsof the Holocaust, January 27, the USCShoah Foundation Institute participated inseveral activities.

The Institute’s film Volevo solo vivere (I OnlyWanted to Live) was broadcast in Italy for thefirst time on January 27, on RAI Cinema’sRAI UNO television station.

Two days later, the United NationsDepartment of Public Information—in partnership with the USC Shoah FoundationInstitute, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, andMémorial de la Shoah in Paris—launchedElectronic Notes for Speakers, a website that is an

online resource for United Nations MemberStates to assist them in developing educationalprograms on the lessons of the Holocaust.Electronic Notes for Speakers can be accessed at http://www1.yadvashem.org/education/january_27/2007.

In New York, the United Nations hostedspecial screenings of I Only Wanted to Liveand Nazvy svoie im’ia (Spell Your Name), and in Paris, the Mémorial de la Shoah hosted apublic screening of I Only Wanted to Live.

New Director of Education NamedIn January, Sherry Bard accepted the positionof Director of Education at the USC Shoah

FoundationInstitute. Bard hasbeen with theFoundation, andnow Institute, formore than 11 years,most recently as theAssociate Director

of Partnerships and International Programs. AsDirector of Education, Bard will oversee theuse of the Institute’s testimonies as educationaltools, either as part of classroom lessons or atthe core of an educational resource theInstitute creates.

“The USC Shoah Foundation Institute’sarchive offers unlimited educational opportuni-ties,” Bard said. “I look forward to working witheducators both in the United States and abroadto explore the most effective and meaningfulways to bring our resources into the classroom.”

New Associate Director NamedIn February, Talia Cohen, former Editor forthe USC Shoah Foundation Institute, accept-ed the position of Associate Director of

InternationalPrograms andCommunications,for the Institute. Inher new role, Cohenwill work to supportthe Institute’sinternational pro-

grams and Regional Consultants around theworld, as well as manage the Institute’s com-munications activities.

Above Lef�t: Institute Regional ConsultantGraciela Nabel de Jinich (right) and SenatorRubén Héctor Giustiniani of Argentina.Left: Institute Regional Consultant DorisEscojido (center) addresses the audience at theawards ceremony in Lerici, Italy.Center: Electronic Notes for Speakers website.



Institute Honors Wallis Annenberg…The power of the Shoah—the power of remembrance—is more than a history lesson, more than a museum exhibit. It’s not even singularlyJewish in its import. …We still need its testimony as a reminder thatwe must be vigilant; that we must replace hate with love; and that wemust begin with ourselves, each and every one of us.”

—Wallis Annenberg, Ambassadors for Humanity Award honoree


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In April, the USC Shoah FoundationInstitute honored Wallis Annenbergwith the Ambassadors for HumanityAward at its gala event. Annenberg isa longtime supporter and a member ofthe Institute’s Board of Councilors. A

humanitarian and philanthropist, Annenbergwas honored for her visionary leadership.

More than 650 guests attended the event inLos Angeles, hosted by Jerry Seinfeld, with amusical performance by Don Henley.

1. (L to R) Harry Robinson, Sara Sugarman,Gerald Breslauer, Douglas Greenberg, Robert Katz, Wallis Annenberg, Michael Rutman, AndreaGordon, Eric Greenberg, Steven Spielberg, BruceRamer, Susan Crown, Jerry Seinfeld

2. (L to R) Raheem Parpia, Emily Intersimone,Steven Spielberg, Darian Lopez, Kevin Webb,Hillary Gregg

3. (L to R) University of Southern CaliforniaPresident Steven B. Sample, Wallis Annenberg, Bono

4. Susan Crown and Douglas Greenberg

5. Andrew and Erna Viterbi

6. (L to R) Richard Lovett, Philip Rosenthal,Douglas Greenberg

7. Rodney and Holly Robinson Peete

8. Irving Feintech and Evelyn Feintech

9. Phil Darivoff and daughter Sarah

10. Kenneth and Elaine Leventhal

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Ruth Ziegler Fund for International TrainingRuth Ziegler, philanthropist and communityleader, recently established the Ruth ZieglerInternational Training Fund to enable the USCShoah Foundation Institute to provide trainingand professional development to individuals whorepresent the Institute in other countries. TheRegional Consultants are critical links in helpingthe Institute initiate, expand, and deepen theireducational activities.

The representatives, primarily from Europeand Latin America, will have opportunities totravel to Los Angeles or to meet in other loca-tions to share best practices, learn how to use theVisual History Archive, and become familiarwith the Institute’s methodologies on the use oftestimonies in a variety of educational contexts.

“This donation will provide us and our col-leagues working thousands of miles away with arare opportunity to meet face to face to deepenour rapport, inspire new ideas, and ensure con-sistent implementation of Institute programsaround the world,” said Kim Simon, Director ofInternational Programs and Communications.

“The USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s workis global in nature, but for their educational pro-grams to reach educators and students aroundthe world, the Institute needs the support ofdedicated individuals in other countries. I ampleased to support their international work,”Ziegler explained.

Leo Rosner Foundation Gift BringsVideo Series Online

The Leo RosnerFoundation recentlymade a contribution tothe USC ShoahFoundation Institute tomake the Institute’sTestimony Segments forthe Classroom series avail-

able to educators on the Institute’swebsite, www.usc.edu/vhi,beginning in fall 2007.

Testimony Segments for theClassroom is an educationalresource consisting of sevendownloadable videos, each highlighting a particular histori-cal event or aspect of theHolocaust, including child survivors, the Warsaw Ghettouprising, and Sonderkommandos.The seven topics covered in thevideos were selected based uponU.S. educators’ requests for topics theywished to cover in their classrooms.

Since 1997, the Leo Rosner Foundation hassupported the Institute with grants to makeits online educational resources available toeducators, including Survivors: Testimonies ofthe Holocaust, and Creating Character: VisualHistory in the Classroom.

William D. Robbins, President of the Leo Rosner Foundation, explained that theFoundation is committed to providing qualityeducational materials directly to educators atno cost. “The programs we have supported atthe Institute fulfill these goals and are makinga major impact in classrooms nationwide. Weare very honored to support programs that arereaching young people in a significant andimportant way.”

Stavros S. Niarchos FoundationGrant to Index Greek TestimoniesA recent gift from the Stavros S. NiarchosFoundation will enable the USC ShoahFoundation Institute to provide access to theGreek testimonies of Holocaust survivors andwitnesses contained in its archive.

The Niarchos Foundation’s gift providesfunding for the Institute to index the 307 testimonies conducted in Greek. These are

among the last of the Institute’s testimonies to be indexed; almost 49,000 of the nearly52,000 testimonies collected have beenindexed to date.

“We are grateful to have received fundingfrom the Niarchos Foundation to index thistreasure of testimonies, conducted with sur-vivors and other witnesses from various areas inGreece, including Corfu, Thessaloniki, and theisland of Rhodes,” said Karen Jungblut,Director of Archival Access and SpecialProjects at the Institute. “Some of the testi-monies are from people who were deported toAuschwitz-Birkenau and subjected to medicalexperiments; some are from people who werepart of the so-called ‘Sonderkommando.’ Thetestimonies also include experiences of thosewho survived in hiding and participated in theGreek Resistance. Indexing them will enablescholars, teachers, and students to search andview them at universities and educational insti-tutions around the world.”

Left: William D. Robbins, President, LeoRosner Foundation.Above: The Institute’s Visual History Archive,through which Greek testimonies will be search-able once indexed.

New Funds

Extraordinary Leadership

Susan Crown is a leader of remarkablevision and humane sensibilities,” saidDouglas Greenberg, Institute Executive

Director, of Susan Crown, a member of theInstitute’s Board of Councilors. “Little wehave accomplished would have been possiblewithout her thoughtful and reasoned approachto our work.”

Susan Crown first learned of the ShoahFoundation when she received a phone call fromSteven Spielberg many years ago; he spoke toher of the evolution of Survivors of the ShoahVisual History Foundation and about his hopesfor the future. Crown committed to becominginvolved and providing her leadership.

Crown served as Chairman of the Board ofDirectors of the Shoah Foundation and played acrucial role in the merger with USC; she is current-ly a member of the USC Shoah FoundationInstitute Board of Councilors and continues to beactively involved in the Institute’s activities.Crown’s mother, Renée, serves as an HonoraryChairperson on the Board of Councilors, and the

Crown Family has generously supported theShoah Foundation and, now, the USC ShoahFoundation Institute, from the beginning.

Susan Crown is a principal of the Chicagofirm of Henry Crown and Company, andpresident of the Arie and Ida CrownMemorial. She is a director of Illinois ToolWorks and the Northern Trust Corporation.She serves as a member of the ExecutiveCommittee of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke'sMedical Center, a director of the United Wayof Metropolitan Chicago, and a member ofthe United States Olympic CommitteeExecutive Board. She is also a trustee of theAspen Valley Community Foundation andNational Council member of the RockyMountain Institute.

Crown speaks of her commitment to theInstitute. “The Institute touches me on an emo-tional level and a conceptual level—using videoarchives as a teaching tool to broaden thinking isa groundbreaking idea. I can’t think of a moreinteresting, challenging, or rewarding task.”

One person really can make a difference. The USC Shoah

Foundation Institute counts on your support to continue its impor-

tant work to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry.

CASH DONATIONS: Gifts may be made by cash, check, or credit card.

PLEDGES: You may wish to make a gift to the Institute that is paid

over several years, following a payment schedule that is most con-

venient for you.

PLANNED GIFTS: Planned gifts might help you reduce or avoid

income, gift, and inheritance taxes. Planned gifts include wills,

charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts, and annuities.

You may wish to consider funding a planned gift with such assets

as cash, life insurance policies, real property, retirement plans, or

marketable securities.

MEMORIAL OR TRIBUTE GIFTS: Contributions can be made to

honor special occasions, such as birthdays, weddings, or births, as

well as to memorialize a friend or family member. The Institute will

mail a tribute card announcing the gift.

IN-KIND GIFTS: The Institute accepts gifts of goods or services that

fulfill programmatic needs.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

Steven Klappholz, Executive Director of Development

USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education

University of Southern California

650 W. 35th Street, Suite 114

Los Angeles, CA 90089-2571

Phone: 213-740-6051

www.usc.edu/vhi

How You Can Make a Difference

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How You Can Make a Difference

Above: Susan Crown of the Institute’s Board of Councilors.


PA RT N ERS I N HI S TO RY A N D T H E F U T U RE ®



The USC Shoah FoundationInstitute wishes to thank thefollowing individuals, foun-dations, and corporations fortheir generous support:

Gifts and PledgesNovember 2006 throughApril 2007

$100,000 & AboveAhmanson CharitableCommunity TrustThe Annenberg FoundationThe Crown FamilyRoma Downey & Mark BurnettThe Feintech Family FoundationVictoria Jackson & William GuthyMarta Kauffman & Michael SkloffStavros S. Niarchos FoundationMonica & Phil RosenthalCourtney Sale RossNicole RossSteven SpielbergRenee & Theodore Weiler

FoundationRuth Ziegler

$50,000 – $99,999Tammy & Steve AndersonDavid Bohnett FoundationLouis L. BorickJerry Breslauer & Joyce Klein BvlgariSandy & Steven CozenCreative Artists AgencyDarivoff Family Foundation,

Betsy & Phil DarivoffKelly & Robert DayGang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown Inc.Andrea & Jim GordonCarmel & Eric GreenbergHawthorn, A member of the

PNC Financial Services GroupJane L. & Robert J. KatzJanet & John Kornreich Levy-Markus FoundationMajestic Realty FoundationJamie & Frank McCourt/Los

Angeles DodgersNetJetsParamount PicturesWinthrop Rockefeller FoundationEva & Mickey RutmanTNT

James CameronCBS Televison NetworkChicago Community Foundation City National BankHoward CohodasFrederick S. & Dorothy S. Coleman

Foundation Inc.Toby & Leon Cooperman FoundationSimon CowellBlythe DannerCarolyn & Mike DarnellThe Larry & Laurie David Family

Foundation L.P. DefamcoMichael DeLuca Richard DevinkiDilworth Paxson LLP DSL Health Inc.Edlow Family Fund Inc.Fielding Edlow & Larry ClarkeJoseph Eisenberg Tamar Elkeles & Larry MichaelsThe Episcopal Academy, Merion

Station, PennsylvaniaPhyllis & Daniel EpsteinRob EshmanRoy EssakowShirley Baskin FamilianFedway Associates Inc.Murray Fersztendig Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Fieldstead & Co.Abby & Ira FriedmanCheri & Steven FriedmanAnne & Brad GlobeJodi & David GoffinSamuel Goldberg & Sons FoundationGoldring Family FoundationThe Goldsmith FamilyMargee & Douglas GreenbergLynda & Peter GuberVera & Paul GuerinWilliam Harder & Fran VictorThe Irving Harris FoundationNancy & Don HarrisonFred HaymanGary HeckerJune & Ron HershJuliane HeymanHorchow Family Charitable Trust House Ear InstituteHenry H. Hoyt, Jr.Bruce Jacobsen

Tom Hanks & Rita WilsonHauptman Family FoundationRobert & Anita Hirsch Family

FoundationHolland & Knight Charitable

Foundation Inc.Dana & Yossie HollanderKathleen Kennedy & Frank

MarshallNina & Bobby KotickLyn & Norman Lear Family

FoundationLaurie McDonald & Walter ParkesMcKinsey & Company Inc.Minow Family FoundationAndrew & Vizhier Mooney Family

FoundationMorgan StanleyNorthern Trust & The Benjamin

TrustAlbert Ratner Philanthropic

FoundationHarry Robinson Joe RothWendy & Ken Ruby TrustCarole Sager & Bob DalySarosi-Kanter Charitable

FoundationSeinfeld Family FoundationSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &

Flom LLPAlan B. Slifka FoundationStacey SniderBen StillerWallis FoundationBruce Wisnicki

$1,000 – $9,999Action Electric Sales Inc.Virginia & Andrew Adelson Debbie Allen Rachel AshwellBell Family Foundation Shelly & Gary Belz William Benter & Daniel LevyCindy & Philip BergerJay Bienstock Biller Family FoundationMiriam Ruth BirndorfBloom Hergott Diemer Rosenthal

& LaViolette LLP Dayna & Steven BochcoBob BodenRabbi Lynn BrodyCharles I. Brown FoundationJacob Burns Foundation Inc.

Robbi & Bruce Toll FoundationViacom Inc.Erna & Andrew ViterbiSanford WeissDiane & Howard Wohl Family

FoundationAnonymous Gift (1)

$25,000 – $49,999ACE Ina FoundationJackie & Howard Banchik Jill & Tom BaradEdye & Eli BroadBennet Van de Bunt & Laura FoxMary Bucksbaum Scanlan Family

FoundationDaily VarietyDreamWorks StudiosMarcia Dunn & Jonathan Sobel Jane & Michael EisnerEntertainment Industry FoundationEmanuel GerardElaine & Bram GoldsmithCamille & Kelsey GrammerSusan Harris & Paul J. WittBetty & Fred HaymanRikki & Barry KaplanMarilyn & Jeffrey KatzenbergSuzanne & Ric KayneL`Oréal USA Inc.Lois & Jerry MagninLynda & Stewart ResnickNancy & Dick RiordanChip Seelig & Steve Mnuchin,

Dune Capital Management LPKaren & Mickey ShapiroSheldon & Cynthia StoneDavid StrasslerUniversal StudiosWarner Bros. StudiosAnonymous Gifts (2)

$10,000 – $24,000Jenna & Dan AdlerArlene & Alan AldaEdith Baldinger Charitable TrustCarol & Frank BiondiBlum-Kovler FoundationPhilip M. Friedmann Charitable

TrustCecilia & Jeffrey GlassmanBenjamin Goldberg Memorial

FoundationMax Goldenberg Foundation

PA RT N ERS I N HI S TO RY A N D T H E F U T U RE ®

$25,000--49,999ACE InaMelva Bucksbaum &

Raymond LearsyCreative Artists AgencyEntertainment Industry

FoundationTom Hanks & Rita WilsonDavid Hunt & Patricia HeatonBruce KaratzBruce & Martha KarshThe Marilyn & JeffreyKatzenberg

FoundationDr. Gail LebovicJerry & Lois MagninDavid & Laura Merage

FoundationNew Line CinemaThe Pratt FoundationSumner RedstoneMary Bucksbaum Scanlan Family

FoundationSternlicht Family Foundation, Inc.Cynthia & Sheldon StoneRobbi & Bruce TollUniversal Studios Inc.Viacom Entertainment GroupAnonymous (2)

$10,000--24,999Gary & Shelly BelzBloomberg LPThe Bloomingdale’s Fund of the

Federated Department StoresFoundation

The Bradley FoundationEva BrownBvlgariHarvey ChaplinComerica BankExelon CorporationMax Goldenberg FoundationPaul GoldenbergJames & Andrea GordonBob & Nita Hirsch Family

FoundationJenner & BlockSarosi-Kanter Charitable

FoundationKathleen Kennedy &

Frank MarshallNathan & Evelyn KremsMarc & Cathy LasrySidonia LaxGerry LenfestMorgan StanleyPeter MortonJeff & Audra NathansonSkip PaulHarry RobinsonThe Sophie Rothstein, Sidney N.

Rothstein, MD & FamilyFundKenneth & Wendy RubyMel & Betty SemblerMace SiegelSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &

Flom LLPDarren StarUniversal Studios FoundationUniversity of Southern CaliforniaWallis FoundationBradley Whitford &

Jane KaczmarekJohn & Samantha WilliamsEd WinterRichard & Elizabeth WittenDiane & Howard Wohl

Family FoundationRobert ZemeckisRuth ZieglerZiffren, Brittenham, Branca,

Fischer, Gilbert-Lurie,Stiffelman & CookFoundation

$1,000--9,999The 1939 ClubMerv & Thea AdelsonVirginia & Andrew AdelsonJenna & Daniel AdlerMark & Deborah AttanasioHoward & Jackie BanchikThe Cecile & Fred Bartman

FoundationBradley & Colleen BellBrad BergerFran BermanzohnDavid BichelSteven BrourmanNeal & Ellen CastlemanDavid Chazen

David & Carol CislowskiThe Carol & James Collins

FoundationSean DanielJohn & Myrna DanielsLarry & Laurie DavidDeutsche BankSam DevinkiJackie & Jeff DubinJoseph & Janet DushanskyJoseph EisenbergWilliam Flumenbaum, Capital

Guardian Trust CompanyMelvin FriedlandIra & Abby FriedmanJoseph & Anna GartnerFoundationAnna GlattBrad & Anne GlobeNeil & Robin GoldbergThe Sam & Sooky Goldman

Charitable Foundation, Inc.Arthur Goldner & AssociatesAbner & Roslyn GoldstineIta & David GordonMichael GorfaineJoseph GottdenkerCarole GrantArthur & Audrey GreenbergDouglas & Margee GreenbergPaul & Vera GuerinMartin & Carole HamburgerSue HampelNancy HarrisonThe Held FoundationJuliane HeymanLayne & Corey HirshThe Honickman FoundationHerbert & Louise HorvitzFrank & Leslie JaffePhil & Masako KasloffFoundationMartin & Kelly KatzHanka KentLester KnightBert & Vera KreisbergCindra & Alan Ladd, Jr.William & Karen LauderMarion LaurieAnne Claire Lester FoundationJerry & Julie LevyJoseph & Sharon Levy

The Shoah Foundation wishes tothank the following individuals,foundations, and corporations fortheir generous support:

Gifts and PledgesNovember 2004--April 2005

$1,000,000 +Crown Family FoundationSteven SpielbergWasserman Foundation

$100,000--999,999Russel & Terry BernardThe Roger & Rosemary Enrico

FoundationYossie HollanderMarta Kauffman & MichaelSkloffPeter KovlerViktor PinchukTurner Broadcasting System, Inc.Library Services and Technology

Act, United States Institute of Museum and LibraryServices, University ofSouthern California

$50,000--99,999The Paul G. Allen Charitable

FoundationLouis BorickJerry Breslauer & Joyce KleinSandy & Steve CozenTom CruiseGang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown

Charitable FoundationEric GreenbergHewlett PackardRobert J. & Jane L. Katz

FoundationRon Meyer & Kelly ChapmanPhilip & Monica RosenthalMickey & Eva RutmanCheryl & Haim Saban-Saban

Family FoundationSchaeffer Family FoundationTerry & Jane SemelMickey & Karen ShapiroSanford WeissAnonymous (1)

´

Frank W. Jaffe Diana & Roger JenkinsJewish Community Center of Las

Vegas Inc., Temple Beth SholomJewish Community Endowment

Fund Jewish Community Federation of

Cleveland Jewish Community Foundation of

Los AngelesSuzanne Nora JohnsonGloria JurisicJust GivePaige & Michael Kaplan Ruth & Irving Karp Family FundPhilip & Masako Togo Kasloff

FoundationCharlie Koones, VarietyCharles & Lynn Kramer Family

Foundation Cindra & Alan LaddClaudia LallyMarion & Dr. Mel LandewRuth & Sidney LapidusElaine & Kenneth LeventhalLawrence LevyMarvin & Carol Schild LevyLeora & Lee LewisRobert LieberbergLos Angeles County Museum of

ArtLucasfilm Ltd.Esther & Joseph LumerSidney LumetDoreen & Meyer LuskinMain Sail Video Productions Inc.Harold MatznerLinda MayMelvoin FoundationJoan Mills Keith MillsBrenda & Dr. Harry MittelmanMrs. Sara Mittleman Jenni & Robert MortonJoyce MossThe Museum of Television &

RadioMusic Center of Los Angeles

CountySusan Neisloss/Big Bite

ProductionsNew York Community Trust Ruth & Jerry NewmanSusan Bay Nimoy & Leonard

Nimoy

Frederick C. NixNorthern Trust Bank of FloridaDeborah Oppenheimer Trust Elna Ortlepp Pasadena Community FoundationJack & Marilyn Pechter FoundationRodney & Holly Robinson Peete,

HollyRod FoundationPerforming Arts Center of Los

Angeles CountyPhiladelphia Orchestra and the

Academy of Music ofPhiladelphia

Stephen Philibosian FoundationPincus Family Foundation Please Touch MuseumReinhard PrinzJeff Probst Ranchos Los AmigosSusan A. RaskinPaula Ravets & Paul ReiserDina RecanatiDr. Susan Reitman & Alan

Silverberg Ira M. Resnick FoundationVicki ReynoldsJeri & Greg Rice Linda Johnson Rice Conrad RiggsLois RosenArthur Ross Foundation Inc.Georgina T. & Thomas A. RussoIlene SafronMark K. Sanditen Family

FoundationKimber SaxSheila ScharfmanPamela Schmider, Schmider

Family Charitable Fund of theAyco Charitable Foundation

Louie SchwartzbergStephen A. SchwarzmanShapell Guerin Foundation Inc.George ShapiroTom & Lamya ShellyShowtime Networks Inc.Mildred SieckhausVictoria & Ronald SimmsEsta & Jamie Stecher FoundationJules Stein Eye InstituteMarc & Eva Stern Foundation Walter SternSavannah & John StevensMyron F. Steves

Jeremy StrickJack Suzar & Linda MayDeborah SzekelyTwentieth Century Fox/FOX

Broadcasting CompanyVanguard Charitable Endowment Vollmer Family FoundationGreg Waskul David & Sylvia Weisz Family

Philanthropic Fund Inc.Luanne WellsNina & Gary WexlerPatricia & Eugene WexlerAlyce WilliamsonLinda & James WimmerElizabeth & Richard WittenMiriam WoskJuliette YoungbloodThe Zemeckis Charitable

Foundation Ziman Family Foundation Suzanne & Hans Zimmer

$250 – $999Marion Achtentuch Argo Corporation Jesse BeimBarbara & Joseph Bentley Stefany & Simon Bergson

FoundationRobert BergsteinBLT & Associates Inc.Elynor Borin P. BrownCarol & Jerome CobenGeorge H. Cohen Michael CooperMichael CulangMary Dalton-MillsDanica DamploKate Delacorte Kurt DuldnerFrieda Dym Richard EnglandAlex FayeStephen Fields Janet Fisher Harold FleisherPhillip FrandlerGoemar FoundationAllan GoldMary GordonLaurie GreenbergVera & Sigi Hart

Robert HartfieldRenee HerstCarole E. Heyl IBM International FoundationTamara R. IgelRalph ItalieJewish Communal Fund of

New YorkLore Kirchheimer David Kittrell Gerald Klein David Kohan Connie Kopsa Alan KriegerKaren Krieger Karen & Robert KushellLandman Family Charitable

Foundation Susan R. LevyMorris Liebermensch George J. London Memorial

FoundationPamela LovingerLouise LutterbeckJudy & Ronald Mack Samuel P. Mandell Foundation Serge MilmanCyril Morrison Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and

MortuariesDario NulKarsten Obermeyer Paltrow Family Jeri PhillipsMarcia & Earl PriceHarry RedlichLinda & Owen Robinson Shirley Rose Michael RoyceLarry SacksSchwebel Family Foundation Anita Shapiro Carleton ShayMark ShenkmanJ.C. SpinkLarry SpunginGloria SteinRussell SteinwegAinslie SugarmanThe Viniar Family FoundationJennifer Weissmann Jeremy Alan WellsGail Wiesenfeld


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2 National Teacher

Training Program

Educators across the United States

are introduced to Echoes and

Reflections—A Multimedia

Curriculum On The Holocaust

5A Global Agenda

New partnerships, products, and

initiatives bring visual history to a

worldwide audience

6 New Book for Young Readers

Dynamic history text incorpo-

rates personal stories from the

Institute’s archive

7Monash University

First Australian university gains

access to Visual History Archive

What’s Inside

OUR MISSION

TO OVERCOME PREJUDICE, INTOLERANCE, AND BIGOTRY—AND THE SUFFERING THEY CAUSE—

THROUGH THE EDUCATIONAL USE OF THE INSTITUTE’S VISUAL HISTORY TESTIMONIES

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