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UNESCO’s push is part of a wider effort to address rising incidents of antisemitic events, which in recent years have ranged from online hate speech to physical violence.
antiSemitism, unesco, stronger than hate, CATT, Countering Antisemitism / Friday, June 1, 2018
USC Shoah Foundation’s Countering Antisemitism Through Testimony Program integrates contemporary personal stories of witnesses to antisemitism into outreach, education and research programs to help counter antisemitism today.
This video was screened at the UNESCO launch of policy guidelines to counter antisemitism through education, on June 4, 2018.
/ Monday, June 4, 2018
Hatred pushed his brother to pull the trigger on Jewish lives, but Abdelghani Merah believes in a better world.
clip / Monday, June 4, 2018
The two-week seminar at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C. is meant to help university faculty make meaningful comparisons and to expand student awareness of Holocaust history.
antiSemitism, ushmm, wolf gruner, Jim Crow South, nuremberg laws, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Monday, June 4, 2018
Atop the piano in Ruth Katz’s childhood home was a picture of a man she knew only as “Uncle Oskar.”
/ Tuesday, June 5, 2018
In this clip, Walter Rosenblum, an army photographer during World War II, talks about the photos he took on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
/ Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Among the photos Walter Rosenblum took on the morning of D-Day was an iconic shot of an exhausted young lieutenant on a rocky beach, gazing past the camera while he and several others perform first aid on a group of men they’d tried to rescue from a wrecked boat.
d-day, Walter Rosenblum / Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Antisemitism is a problem that affects humanity as whole, says Chouna Lomponda, who works at a museum that was violently attacked.
clip / Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Deborah Margolis has provided Visual History Archive workshops to about 60 faculty members and graduate students at least as many undergraduates at Michigan State.
/ Thursday, June 7, 2018
Belle Mayer of New York was a prosecutor on the team that tried I.G. Farben, one of Nazi Germany’s largest government contractors, which had a large stake in creating the Zyklon-B poison used in death-camp gas chambers.
Women at Nuremberg, Nuremberg Trials, Belle Mayer Zeck, Belle Mayer / Monday, June 11, 2018
What tools are available for countering antisemitism? Researcher Cecilie Banke shares her thoughts.
CATT / Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Didier Reynder’s perspective changed after witnessing a horrifying attack at the Jewish Museum in Belgium.
Transcript: I arrived at the museum and there were locals, people all over the place who were still frightened of what had just happened. I saw the first two victims in the entranceI did not enter the museum. I am used to reading reports, comments, notes on terrorist attacks and criminal acts. But obviously when you find yourself directly in the presence of bodies on the ground, it totally changes your way of seeing reality.
/ Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Twenty years after giving USC SF her original testimony, Holocaust survivor Fay Vidal wrestles with the complexities of antisemitism.
CATT / Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Diplomat Jan Deboutte knows the danger of letting antisemitism go unchecked – and still, he says, there is hope.
Transcript: It is not too late, but it is time that we realize that what begins with antisemitism does not end with antisemitism. It keeps living on, we have seen it: what happened in the second World War can repeat itself. There is still time for people to react, don’t wait too long because time is also limited. And it would be criminal to not realize that we need to act. Now.
CATT / Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Mette Bentow remembers the tragedy that struck her daughter’s bat mitzvah – and people’s reactions to this antisemitic attack.
CATT / Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Former Neo-Nazi Peter Sundin knows firsthand how antisemitism can breed hate – and he’s got ideas to counter it.
CATT / Wednesday, June 13, 2018
French politician Robert Badinter is used to diplomatic speeches but antisemitism is too dangerous to dance around: it deserves no mercy.
CATT / Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Samuel Sandler tragically lost his son and grandchildren in the Toulouse attacks– and it haunts him.
CATT / Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Viviane Teitelbaum, a Belgian MP, speaks on the isolation around antisemitism and the importance of speaking up.
Transcript: It is not what is said that kills me… it is this silence that annihilates me.’ [cut] This strength that we as interviewees have to speak out and give our testimonies, and to hope that the things we say might be heard… It does a lot of good. It gives a lot of renewed energy.
CATT / Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Holocaust survivor Gena Turgel was known in the British press as the “Bride of Belsen” for marrying a British liberator of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she was a prisoner. She gave her testimony to USC Shoah Foundation in 1998.
/ Thursday, June 14, 2018
Susan discusses coming to terms with her identity as a lesbian, and knowing she didn't have to change who she was even while lacking support and resources.
gay, gay pride, lesbian, jewish survivor, female jewish survivor, clip / Thursday, June 14, 2018
The timeline and accompanying video by students at Northside College Preparatory High School in Chicago encouraged their classmates to embrace each other’s unique differences – as well as appreciate their similarities – specifically as it relates to the challenges of American immigrant communities.
2018 IWitness Video Challenge / Monday, June 18, 2018
In this clip, Odette Ariav talks about the impact the Holocaust had on her family and the importance of giving testimony.
/ Monday, June 18, 2018
This year's IWitness Video Challenge winners prompt their fellow students to reflect on the immigration struggles of their ancestors. The winning team is from Northside College Preparatory High School in Chicago.
iwitness video challenge, iwvc, iwitness, immigration / Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Call for Papers:
The Future of Holocaust Testimonies V: An International Conference and Workshop
March 11-13, 2019
The Holocaust Studies Program of Western Galilee College, the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, University of Southern California, and the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies, Appalachian State University, announce the fifth international interdisciplinary conference and workshop on The Future of Holocaust Testimonies to be held on 11–13 March 2019 in Akko, Israel.
cagr / Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Michele Mitchell is award-winning co-director of the critically acclaimed documentary The Uncondemned.
/ Tuesday, June 19, 2018
When I met the war photographer, he was having his morning coffee on the beach. He had already been in Cox’s Bazar for a month for The New York Times and had no idea when he was going back home.
“I’ve been tracking what’s happening to the Rohingya for three years,” he told me. “I went all through Myanmar. You could see this coming. It’s been coming all that time.”
He meant the genocidal violence that erupted on August 25th and sent 700,000 Rohingya fleeing across the border into Bangladesh.
/ Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Included within the course’s syllabus is the testimony of Holocaust survivor Eva Slonim, who was depicted in an iconic photo of a group of children standing behind the barbed wire at Auschwitz. Slonim composed a poem along with a group of other children while imprisoned in Auschwitz.
DITT, Diversity and Inclusion Through Testimony, poetry, eva slonim / Tuesday, June 19, 2018
As a court reporter who helped transcribe the historic trial against doctors accused of performing vile experiments, Vivien Spitz was struck by the resentment in the eyes of the defendants.
Women at Nuremberg / Tuesday, June 26, 2018