American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the USC Shoah Foundation announced today at AJC Global Forum their newly formed partnership to give voice to, document, and map modern-day antisemitism around the world. 

In the aftermath of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel, the USC Shoah Foundation and Tablet Studios announced a partnership to collect, archive, and make available testimonies of survivors, bereaved family members, and rescuers who risked their lives to save others during the assault.

The survey by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights found that antisemitism pervades everyday life across Europe.

Chouna Lomponda, the communications director of the Jewish Museum of Belgium; Viviane Teitelbaum, member of the Brussels Parliament in Belgium; Abdelghani Merah, brother of Mohammed Merah, a terrorist who in 2012 killed seven people in France in a series of gun attacks; Peter Sundin, a former neo-Nazi who is now a Holocaust studies lecturer. They are among dozens who were interviewed for USC Shoah Foundation's new Countering Antisemitism collection.

As a non-Jew living in Paris, the scourge of antisemitism had, until recently, faded from my mind as a major concern. But my eyes were opened in 2016 when I was approached by the USC Shoah Foundation to executive produce for them a new collection of testimonies on contemporary antisemitism.

Testimonies from the Visual History Archive’s newest collection have been added to IWitness in time for the upcoming school year along with a Mini Quest multimedia activity.

The Visual History Archive version 6.7.3.1 was released today, adding a new feature for users and testimonies from two new experience groups.