USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive

Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation visual history archive <april 5, 2005>

Also known as: Shoah Foundation's visual history archive project

[Los Angeles, Calif.] : USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.

Began in 2001.

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.

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.

Also published in print format, on CD-ROM, and documentary film for educational purposes.

Published by the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation <april 5, 2005>; USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education <2006->

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