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- Armenian Genocide
- Cambodian Genocide
- Central African Republic Conflict
- Contemporary Antisemitism
- 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda
- Guatemalan Genocide
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- Roma Interviews
- Belarus
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- Czechoslovakia
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- Estonia
- France
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- Germany
- Greece
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- Italy
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Contemporary Antisemitism
The phenomenon of contemporary antisemitism refers to verbal and physical attacks on people, property, and interests perceived to be Jewish that have occurred in the period since the Holocaust. The USC Shoah Foundation's work is guided by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism. For its contemporary antisemitism collection, the Foundation intends to record thousands of new interviews with individuals who have experienced antisemitism across the globe from 1945 until today, focusing on Jewish communities in the former Soviet Union, Ethiopia, and the Middle East and North Africa, as well as contemporary antisemitism in Israel and North America. See here for more information.
Between 2015 and 2020, the USC Shoah Foundation recorded an initial 68 testimonies. Some documented the 2014 attack on the Jewish Museum of Belgium; 2015 shootings in Copenhagen, Denmark; the 2018 Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in Philadelphia, USA; and several violent antisemitic attacks in France 2006-2016. Others focused on the state of antisemitism in Germany, Hungary, Sweden, and the United Kingdom at that time.
In 2023-2024, the Foundation recorded 400 interviews with survivors and witnesses of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel. These interviews document most of the locations where the attacks occurred—including 18 kibbutzim, 5 moshavim, 5 towns, Zikim Beach, and the Nova Music Festival site—and include interviews with released hostages. Some interviewees show real-time footage, photographs, and texts from before and during the attacks.
To date, the Contemporary Antisemitism collection has been recorded in 8 languages (Danish, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Swedish, and Thai) and 9 countries (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Sweden, U.S.A., and the United Kingdom).
Selected Indexing Terms
antisemitism
anti-Zionism
attitudes toward Denmark and/or the Danes
attitudes toward humanity
attitudes toward Islam and/or Muslims
belief change
Copenhagen (Denmark)
Copenhagen shootings (February 14-15, 2015)
Danish history
Dansk Folkeparti
Denmark 2000 (January 1) - present
determination
Din Tro Min Tro
empathy
fear
Frihedsradet
future message
Holocaust education
Holocaust history
hope
inter-communal solidarity
inter-faith relations
intergenerational genocide impact
inter-Jewish relations
Islamism
Jewish communities
Jewish community welfare
Jewish history
Jewish identity
Jewish property attacks
Jewish-non Jewish relations
mass violence reflections
media coverage
national identity
Ny-Dansk Ungdomsråd
ostracism
post-terrorist attack reflections
post-World War II reflections
pride
racism
sadness
security (motivation)
surprise
survivor identity
sympathy
synagogues
terrorist attack-related psychological reactions
terrorist attacks
testimony-sharing motivations
threats
traditional Judaism
World War II history
