The Visual History Archive is in the process of transcribing all of their collection, presenting new challenges and opportunities for engaging the 54,000 testimonies contained in the collection. This roundtable, organized by the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention will bring together experts on the study of Holocaust survivors and qualitative researchers in the social sciences to think through the challenges of building knowledge...
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Founded by the film director Steven Spielberg in 1994, the Visual History Archive is a collection of testimonies recorded in order to preserve the words, faces, gestures and histories of genocide survivors. Holocaust survivors’ testimonies, recorded around the world in 28 languages, represent the bulk of the collection (51 333 to this day). This core documentation is complemented by accounts from other victims of the Nazis (Sinti and Roma survivors,...
On June 15th, the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention will host a session of the seminar "Histoire et historiographie de la Shoah" (HHS, Centre de recherches historiques, EHESS-CNRS).
We will hear Professor Mark Roseman (Indiana University Bloomington), who will present his book: Rescued lives: The “Bund”, resistance, and rescue in Nazi Germany, Oxford University...
On June 2nd, the Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 will be organizing an international symposium entitled "Holocaust Survivors and their Networks: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives," with the participation of the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention.
The workshop will take place from 9.30am to 6pm at La Maison de la...
Organizers: George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention, American University of Paris, the USC Shoah Foundation and the Institut Français de l’Éducation (ENS de Lyon).
Place: Library of the American University of Paris, 9 rue Monttessuy, 75007 Paris
Participants: Secondary school French teachers (history, literature, languages, philosophy…) and trainers for teachers
Maximum 15 participants
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