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List of Archival Collections

	The European Holocaust The largest audiovisual collection of its kind in the world, the Holocaust Collection is composed of nearly 56,669 WWII era testimonies of Jewish survivors, political prisoners, Sinti and Roma (Gypsy) survivors, Jehovah's Witness survivors, survivors of eugenics policies, and homosexual survivors, as well as rescuers and aid providers, liberators, and participants in war crimes trials.
	Rwandan Genocide Featuring testimonies collected by USC Shoah Foundation and the Kigali Genocide Memorial, the Rwandan Testimony Collection presents survivor and eyewitness accounts of the 1994 genocide of Tutsis that claimed as many as one million lives over the course of approximately 100 days.
Madame Zhang, survivor of the Nanjing Massacre	Nanjing Massacre In 2012, the Institute began collecting testimonies from survivors and witnesses of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, which claimed the lives of up to 300,000 Chinese civilians and disarmed soldiers over the course of two months at the hands of invading Japanese forces.
	Armenian Genocide With over 400 interviews conducted by genocide survivor and documentary filmmaker Dr. J. Michael Hagopian, the Armenian Genocide Collection explores the WWI-era massacres and deportations in the Ottoman Empire that claimed the lives of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians. The interviews were conducted from 1982 through 2004, with survivors who were between the ages of eight to 29 at the time of the Genocide.
Santa Chach, Guatemalan Genocide survivor	Guatemalan Genocide Working with the La Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala (FAFG), a Guatemalan forensics organization, USC Shoah Foundation has launched a project to collect video testimonies of witnesses to the Guatemalan Genocide of the early 1980s. In all, about 200,000 people died in the decades-long civil war that ended in 1996.
Theary Seng, genocide survivor and founder of the Cambodian Center for Justice and Reconciliation	Cambodian Genocide Developed through a partnership between USC Shoah Foundation and the Documentation Center of Cambodia, the Cambodian Genocide Collection offers testimonies of Khmer Rouge period survivors who escaped the killings of nearly two million Cambodians during 1975-1979.