Mourning After Tragic Shooting in the Tree of Life Synagogue
From the Wikimedia series “Governor [Tom] Wolf Joins Pittsburgh in Mourning After Tragic Shooting in the Tree of Life Synagogue”
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Created 28 October 2018
Contemporary Antisemitism
In July 2017, the USC Shoah Foundation added 10 testimonies to the VHA from a new collection called Contemporary Antisemitism. This collection addresses the geographically widespread increase in attacks on people, property, and interests perceived to be Jewish in the first two decades of the 21st century. This first group of testimonies was recorded by the USC Shoah Foundation with interviewees a few months after the February 2015 shootings in Copenhagen, Denmark, and include three Holocaust survivors whom the USC Shoah Foundation had interviewed in 1997-1998 as part of its original collection (Flemming Cohn, Birgit Krasnik-Fischermann, and Silja Vainer). Eight of the 10 testimonies are in English and two are in Danish. - Text from https://libguides.usc.edu/vha/contemporaryantisemitism.
Twenty-seven testimonies were added to the new Countering Antisemitism collection; most are in French. This category now includes 42 personal stories of witnesses to contemporary antisemitism for a program that integrates the testimonies into outreach, education and research programs to help counter antisemitism today.
Hamas Terrorist Attacks of 7 October 2023
On 7 October 2023, the Hamas terrorist organization and its collaborators perpetrated a genocidal assault from the Gaza Strip on chiefly civilian targets in Israel. The resulting slaughter of women, children, and men ended the lives of some 1200 individuals. Sexual abuse, rape, kidnapping (of more than two hundred victims), and arson wreaked havoc on the lives of hundreds if not thousands more in the worst single pogrom against Jews since the Holocaust.
More than 260 testimonies are available at Survivors of the October 2023 Hamas Terrorist Attacks | USC Shoah Foundation. These testimonies will ultimately be integrated into the Visual History Archive with its versatile search capacities. We invite you to access these testimonies and caution that, as USC Shoah Foundation states, “Some videos contain graphic and disturbing content. Viewer discretion is advised.”