With the publication of her book Une vie contre une autre (One Life Against Another) historian Sonia Combe has become one of the first French scholars to extensively use the Visual History Archive in academic research – and she hopes many other researchers will follow in her footsteps.
New Greenberg Fellow To Provide Insight in World War II Atrocities Committed in Nazi-Occupied Ukraine
Constructing a Micro-history of the Holocaust in Western Ukraine
USC Doheny Memorial Library, Room 240
January 15, 2015, 4:00 pm
By Cat Vazquez
When asked about what she does for a living, Judy Janec starts off with an explanation rather than a title. An average day at the office for her can take place anywhere, and at any time, but the assignment is the same: to index video testimonies from Holocaust survivors and witnesses. Often working from her laptop at a café or library, she closely watches the interviews, and using judgment and discretion, assigns key terms to each section of the testimony.
USC Shoah Foundation Announces ‘Preserving the Legacy’ Initiative
The initiative will use the Institute’s state-of-the-art infrastructure to digitize, index and integrate videotaped Holocaust testimony taken by other organizations around the world into the Visual History Archive.