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Visual history archive
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Primary source collection of thousands of video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide and crimes against humanity. The collection currently includes testimonies relating to the Holocau...
Primary source collection of thousands of video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide and crimes against humanity. The collection currently includes testimonies relating to the Holocaust, the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China, the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, the 1915 Armenian Genocide, the Guatemalan Genocide, and the 1975 Cambodian Genocide. Every testimony is digitized and fully searchable to the minute via indexing of names, places and keywords.
Contains more than 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide. The interviews have been conducted in 65 countries and 43 languages. Testimonies have index terms at one-minute segments. Initially a repository of Holocaust testimony, the Visual History Archive has expanded to include testimonies from the Armenian Genocide that coincided with World War I, the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China, the Cambodian Genocide of 1975-1979, the Guatemalan Genocide of 1978-1983, the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and the ongoing conflicts in the Central African Republic and South Sudan, and anti-Rohingya mass violence. It also includes testimonies about contemporary acts of violence against Jews.
Details
- Other Titles
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- Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation visual history archive <April 5, 2005>
- Also known as: Shoah Foundation's visual history archive project
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Languages
- English, Multiple languages
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [Los Angeles, Calif.] : USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
- Publication Dates
- Began in 2001
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- OCLC
- ocm58810398
- "In order to integrate testimonies recorded and owned by other organizations into the Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation has initiated the Preserving the Legacy program. Partners in the program include Jewish Family and Children's Services (JFCS) Holocaust Center; a consortium of nine Canadian archives; the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus; Holocaust Museum Houston; Florida Holocaust Museum; Museum of Jewish Heritage; and the Richard G. Hovannisian Armenian Genocide Oral History Collection."--Home page, viewed January 31, 2019.
- In English and 43 other languages. Transcripts of the German language testimonies are available, as well as English subtitles for the non-English Rwandan genocide and Nanjing massacre testimonies.
Subjects
- Genocide survivors -- Interviews.
- Holocaust survivors -- Interviews.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Europe.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Genocide -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century.
- Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century.
- Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Atrocities.
- Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937.
- Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923.