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In this clip from Alain Lazeret's testimony, he explains why the predominantly Christian country of the Central African Republic is a target for attack by Islamic extremists.
clip, car / Tuesday, May 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
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
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
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
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
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
In this clip, Marcel Salomon recalls his impressions of coming into New York harbor including seeing the Statue of Liberty and landing on Ellis Island.
clip / Friday, June 29, 2018
Herman Shine describes the many close calls he and a friend faced when he escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp complex. It was a perilous journey, but he became one of the very few prisoners to make it out of the camp alive.
/ Monday, August 6, 2018
Jewish Holocaust survivor Agnes Adachi shares a story about the antisemitic name-calling she endured as a child attending school in Hungary during World War II.
/ Friday, August 10, 2018
Stefania Podgorska Burzminski appears at the end of the testimony of her husband, Josef Burzminski (right), to share thoughts on why she risked her life to save him and many others during the Holocaust. Stefania grew up Catholic in Poland. Their son, Edward Burzminski, looks on as she speaks.
rescuer, upstander / Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Stefania Podgorska Burzminski appears at the end of the testimony of her husband, Josef Burzminski (right), to share thoughts on why she risked her life to save him and many others during the Holocaust. Stefania grew up Catholic in Poland. Their son, Edward Burzminski, looks on as she speaks.
rescuers, upstanders, hiding / Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Hungarian Holocaust survivor Mike Terezia describes life after liberation. Her testimony is among several being used in a study by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences about the effectiveness of testimony in the classroom.
Hungarian testimony, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Mike Terezia, study / Thursday, August 23, 2018
Danish Holocaust survivor Silja Vainer describes the comfort she derived from joining a Jewish-Muslim-Christian interfaith group that engages in community outreach.
Silja Vainer, IDC, student government, inter-faith / Monday, August 27, 2018
Holocaust survivor Leon Leyson describes working in Oskar Schindler’s factory, and his interactions with Schindler himself when the German industrialist strolled through the work stations on the factory floor. This testimony clip is featured in the IWitness Video Challenge activity.
Schindler's List, re-release, 25th anniversary, Leon Leyson / Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Emmanuel Ndashimye, a survivor of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi, talks about three times he came close to death during the genocide, but somehow managed to survive.
1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, obit, Emmanuel Ndashimye / Thursday, August 30, 2018
Shafika Begum describes a massacre at her Rohingya village. On Aug. 30 of 2017, as part of a coordinated attack across the Rakhine State that had begun a few days prior, the Myanmar Army and local collaborators burned down dwellings and began gunning down inhabitants of her village, Tula Toli.
Rohingya, Shafika Begum, massacre, Tula Toli / Tuesday, September 11, 2018
This presentation of video testimonies on antisemitism appeared to a high-level panel at the 73rd United Nations General Assembly organized by UNESCO on September 26, 2018.
/ Wednesday, September 26, 2018
University student government leaders who participated in the Institute's inaugural Intercollegiate Diversity Congress reflect on the impact of testimony to counter antisemitism, racism and other forms of hate.
/ Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Gisela Golombek’s Jewish family had immigrated to the Philippines via Britain after fleeing Nazi Germany just before the war. On Dec. 8, 1941 – the same day as Pearl Harbor – Japan attacked Manila. The 9-year-old Golombek and her family were among the thousands of Americans and Europeans rounded up from Manila homes. They were imprisoned at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila.
Philippines, internment camps / Thursday, October 25, 2018