Every Genocide Leaves a Legacy ****************************************************************************************** * Every Genocide Leaves a Legacy: Rwandan Tutsi Genocide Testimonies Integrated Into USC S Visual History Archive available at Charles University ****************************************************************************************** USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education has added a collecti of survivors and rescuers from the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi genocide to its Visual History Archi the first integration of testimonies other than Holocaust survivors and witnesses into the Archive. The 65 audiovisual interviews in this new collection mark the beginning of the Rw and Education Program, the Institute’s landmark initiative in partnership with Aegis Trust Genocide Memorial (KGM), that aspires to record and preserve approximately 500 Rwandan tes educational resource for the entire world, forever. „Every genocide leaves a legacy,” said Freddy Mutanguha, Country Director of Aegis in Rwan parents and four sisters during the genocide. „This legacy includes the memories of surviv testimony to the Institute because I think it’s important to preserve historical records o in Rwanda. Through the educational use of testimony, made possible by access to the Visual the memories of Rwandan survivors and Holocaust survivors are becoming a conduit for peace as well as in countries across the world.” The Rwanda Archive and Education Program is part of an ongoing effort by the Institute to content in its Visual History Archive. „The Rwandan testimonies will support scholarship a into the causes and consequences of genocides and the role of audiovisual testimony in res education, as well as the development of education programs and learning tools for student and worldwide,” said USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen D. Smith. He also not Spielberg established the Institute in 1994 - the same year as the outbreak of genocide in In addition to Rwandan Tutsi genocide, the Institute is also fundraising to integrate test Armenian and Cambodian genocides. Each testimony collection is to add context for the othe multiple pathways for students, educators, and scholars to learn from the eyewitnesses of time, locations, cultures, and social-political circumstances. The Institute recorded 15 Rwandan testimonies in the United States, and Aegis, which began the Institute in 2008 and has started providing its first 50 testimonies taken in Rwanda. becoming available in the Visual History Archive that is available at 43 institutions and around the world, testimonies will be included in the partnership’s work to establish a na building education program that will eventually be available in the five provinces of Rwan Some of the testimonies will also be added to the Institute’s public web portal, called th Archive Online (vhaonline.usc.edu). By summer 2013, the testimonies will also be integrate the Institute’s award-winning website for secondary students and teachers (http://iwitness "http://iwitness.usc.edu"] ). ****************************************************************************************** * How to access the interviews? ****************************************************************************************** Nearly 52 000 testimonies of the Holocaust and Rwandan Tutsi genocide survivors are fully Malach Centre for Visual History in Prague. Six separate computer work-stations are ready the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University on Malostranské náměstí 25, P Town Square, Prague 1). Anyone interested from the academy as well as the general public a just have to register and create your user account. The user interface is easy to work wit sophisticated enough for research purposes. We will gladly assist you during the research the Malach CVH during our opening hours (every workday except Monday), contact us via e-ma information on our website [ URL "http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/cvhm/index-eng.html"] . ****************************************************************************************** * About the USC Shoah Foundation ****************************************************************************************** USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education (sfi.usc.edu) is ded audio-visual interviews with survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust and other geno a compelling voice for education and action. The USC Shoah Foundation’s current collection eyewitness testimonies contained within its Visual History Archive preserves history as to who lived it. Housed at the University of Southern California, within the Dana and David D of Letters, Arts and Sciences, the USC Shoah Foundation works with partners around the wor scholarship and research, to provide resources and online tools for educators, and to diss testimonies for educational purposes. ****************************************************************************************** * About Aegis Trust ****************************************************************************************** The Aegis Trust is an international organization working to prevent genocide. Aegis honors of the victims of genocide and enables students, professionals, decision-makers and a wide meet survivors and learn from their experiences. Through education, Aegis works to build l and confront the prejudice and beliefs that lead to genocide, while finding ways to suppor rebuild their lives. Aegis conducts research on places where genocide is a current threat, impunity by holding perpetrators to account, provides policy advice to decision-makers who undertakes advocacy to take the voices of those at risk to politicians, the media and the in 2000, Aegis developed from the work of the UK Holocaust Centre and has offices in Londo Rwanda. ****************************************************************************************** * About Kigali Genocide Memorial ****************************************************************************************** In 2001, the Mayor of Kigali and Rwanda’s Minister of Culture travelled to various memoria in Europe and North America. On this trip they discovered The Holocaust Centre in the UK – Aegis Trust. Inspired by The Holocaust Centre’s function as both a place of remembrance an they commissioned Aegis to create the Kigali Genocide Memorial. The Memorial was opened in anniversary of the genocide. Standing in the heart of Rwanda’s capital at a site where som of the genocide are buried, it is comprised of exhibitions, memorial gardens, educational the Genocide Archive of Rwanda. It hosts tens of thousands of visitors each year, from loc students to international dignitaries such as former US President Bill Clinton and UN Secr Ki-Moon. The Memorial serves both as a place of commemoration and as a unique educational of CNLG, Aegis manages the Kigali Genocide Memorial, ensuring it continues to be a place o and a place for investment in peace-building. The Memorial operates entirely on the suppor donors.