KIgA and the USC Shoah Foundation unite in a powerful collaboration
The USC Shoah Foundation and KIgA e.V. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a collaborative partnership that also benefits ENCATE members significantly.
Berlin, October 25, 2024 — The USC Shoah Foundation and the Kreuzberg Initiative against Antisemitism (KIgA e.V.) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to initiate a close cooperation between the two organizations. For ENCATE members, this agreement allows access to the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive of testimonies, which includes accounts from the Holocaust, Anti-Rohingya Mass Violence, Nanjing Massacre, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Armenia, Rwanda, Cambodia, and Northern Syria. Most recently, the Foundation has included the testimonies of the October 7 terrorist attacks.
The cooperation includes joint projects in the field of education to counteract the increase in antisemitism in Europe. It covers three areas:
- KIgA will have access to the extensive video archive of interviews with survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides. In total, the USC Shoah Foundation has more than 52,000 of these recordings. In addition, there are video recordings of hundreds of survivors of the Hamas terror attack on October 7.
- Both organizations will organize joint international conferences and develop new educational models to raise awareness of antisemitism.
- Coordinate efforts to increase visibility of ENCATE by featuring the network in webinars and/or planned blog posts of the Foundation.
About the USC Shoah Foundation
The USC Shoah Foundation, established in 1994, finds, preserves and amplifies the voices of the past to foster remembrance. Over the past 30 years, the Foundation grew into an institute bringing survivors’ voices into research, policy, education, and public awareness.
The Visual History Archive (VHA) of the Foundation stores and safeguards more than 56,000 testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and other historical events of genocide, crimes against humanity, and related persecution, including contemporary antisemitism. It is the largest such collection in the world.
Testimony empowers humanity. Centered around survivor voices, the USC Shoah Foundation’s innovative programming, global-impact strategies, and cutting-edge research initiatives help foster insights and practical solutions to preserve Holocaust memory and history, confront antisemitism, and strengthen democratic values.
