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iWitness: USC Shoah Foundation

IWitness is an educational website developed by USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education that provides access to more than 1,500 full life histories, testimonies of survivors and witnesses to the Holocaust and other genocides for guided exploration. IWitness brings the human stories of the Institute's Visual History Archive to secondary school teachers and their students via engaging multimedia-learning activities.

The Holocaust

Hall of Names - Yad Vashem, Holocaust Memorial, Jerusalem.

Hall of Names - Yad Vashem, Holocaust Memorial, Jerusalem

Complicity

The Jedwabne pogrom was a massacre of Polish Jews in the town of Jedwabne, German-occupied Poland, on 10 July 1941. About 40 non-Jewish Poles carried out the crime. This image is the memorial marker.

The Jedwabne pogrom was a massacre of Polish Jews in the town of Jedwabne, German-occupied Poland, on 10 July 1941. About 40 non-Jewish Poles carried out the crime. This image is the memorial marker.

Denial

The trial of Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem where Arendt’s “Banality of Evil,” captured his denial of responsibility.

The trial of Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem where Arendt’s “Banality of Evil,” captured his denial of responsibility.

Human Rights

Wall of Remembrance at the USHMM

Wall of Remembrance at the USHMM

International Response

Accused perpetrators at the Nuremberg Trials.

Accused perpetrators at the Nuremberg Trials.

Propaganda

Examples of Nazi Propaganda from the 1930s.

Examples of Nazi Propaganda from the 1930s.

Remembrance

A Holocaust Remembrance Candle

A Holocaust Remembrance Candle

Resistance

Memorial at the Mila Street bunker for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Memorial at the Mila Street bunker for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Survival

Child survivors of Auschwitz, wearing adult-size prisoner jackets, stand behind a barbed wire fence.

Child survivors of Auschwitz, wearing adult-size prisoner jackets, stand behind a barbed wire fence.

About this Resource:

Type(s) of Resources: 
  • Classroom Resources
  • Lesson Plans
  • Videos (Film)
  • Primary Source(s): 
  • First Person Accounts
  • Interviews
  • Letters
  • Photographs
  • Grade Level(s): 
  • 9-12
  • Audience(s): 
  • Community Member
  • Teacher and Student
  • Discipline(s): 
  • Language Arts
  • Social Studies