Visual History Archive
The Visual History Archive is an internet-based video archive consisting of around 52,000 interviews with victims and witnesses of the Holocaust . It is currently the world's largest historical video archive and was developed and built by the Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education at the University of Southern California (USC). It goes back to the Shoah Foundation founded by Steven Spielberg in 1994 .
The archive contains video interviews with victims ( Jews , homosexuals , Sinti and Roma , Jehovah's Witnesses , politically persecuted people and “euthanasia victims” ) and Witnesses (helpers, rescuers, liberators and liberation witnesses, as well as those involved in war crimes trials ) of the Holocaust from 56 countries in 32 languages. The interviews were digitized, tagged and made accessible by means of an archiving system by the Shoah Foundation Institute. The software enables research in the archive using four different search functions. The key words are both personal and thematic.
Subject-specific collections of eyewitness interviews can be viewed at various public institutions around the world. The German-language interviews are available in the Jewish Museum in Berlin . In addition to the USC, full online access including research and keywording is only possible at Rice University , the University of Michigan , Yale University and, since the end of 2006, for the first time outside the USA at the Free University of Berlin . Since the establishment of the chair on the history and effects of the Holocaust associated with the Fritz Bauer Institute (2017), access has also been possible at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Access has also been possible at the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin since 2017.
Web links
- Free University of Berlin - Visual History Archive Project
- Goethe University Frankfurt am Main - Visual History Archive access
- University of Southern California - Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
- Rice University - Shoah Foundation Archives Collaboration Project
- The University of Michigan - Shoah Foundation's Visual History
- Yale University - Shoah Foundation-Visual History Archive
- Institute for Contemporary History - Shoah Foundation-Visual History Archive
literature
- Linde Apel: "You are participating in history". The Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive , in: Zeithistorische Forschungen / Studies in Contemporary History 5 (2008), pp. 438–445.
- Michele Barricelli / Juliane Brauer / Dorothee Wein: Witnesses of the Shoah: Historical learning with biographical video interviews. The Visual History Archive of the Shoah Foundation Institute in School Education (pdf ~ 140kB) in: medaon.de, magazine for Jewish life in research and education
- Martin Lücke: Survival Stories. Language and historical learning on the subject of the Holocaust with video interviews from the Visual History Archive (pdf ~ 75kB) in: medaon.de, magazine for Jewish life in research and education
Individual evidence
- ^ Institute for Contemporary History: Visual History Archive. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .