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WHAT: The launch of the University of Pennsylvania’s access to the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s entire Visual History Archive that contains nearly 52,000 video testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust from 56 countries and in 32 languages.
WHO: Penn President Amy Gutmann will be joined by Stephen D. Smith, USC Shoah Foundation Institute executive director; Stephen A. Cozen, Institute Board of Councilors member; Beth S. Wenger, Penn history professor; additional Institute representatives; and other Penn faculty, staff, students and alumni at ceremonies launching the partnership.
Penn's partnership with the Shoah Foundation Institute is supported by the efforts of the Annenberg School for Communication,
Penn Libraries and the Division of Information Systems and Computing.
WHERE: Lobby of the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts,
3680 Walnut St.
WHEN: Monday, April 23
Media preview: 4 p.m.
Press conference: 4:30 p.m.
Ceremonies: 5 p.m.
Program/Speeches: 5:20 p.m.
DETAILS: The media is invited to an exclusive preview of the Institute’s Visual History Archive at 4 p.m. At 4:30 p.m., media representatives will have the opportunity to interview:
Julie McWilliams
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Charles Kane, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Physics at Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences.
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