New Testimonies Spanning More than a Century Added to Visual History Archive

Mon, 05/17/2021 - 1:26pm
USC Shoah Foundation has added 132 testimonies to its Visual History Archive. These firsthand accounts of mass atrocities spanning more than 100 years are now available to researchers, educators, family members, and the public.
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Current Conflict Collections: How and Why USC Shoah Foundation is Collecting Testimony from Ongoing Conflicts

The young woman stares at me as I wait to press play on the video. Her eyes are dark and her lips are pursed. You can see a bit of her thick black hair which is matted beneath an off-white, or perhaps a light-pink scarf. It is hard to tell the exact color in the shadowed room.

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Cornell University Library Acquires Permanent Access to Visual History Archive

Thu, 05/21/2020 - 12:04pm

The ties between Cornell University and USC Shoah Foundation are many, and now, they are permanent: The Cornell University Library has acquired access to the Visual History Archive in perpetuity. Cornell University became the 52nd site to provide full access to the archive on an annual basis in November 2015, and the impact on research and education has been significant. This impact can now continue for generations to come, as the witnesses who gave testimony had hoped.

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Spring Release adds Tutsi, Rohingya, and "Last Chance" Testimonies

Thu, 04/09/2020 - 10:54am
Pictured: Holocaust survivor Elly Gotz who gave his testimony to the Azrieli Foundation in 2018. His interview is one of 31 new testimonies from the Azrieli Foundation that have been indexed and catalogued in the Visual History Archive. This week’s semi-annual VHA release adds 128 new testimonies to the 55,000-strong collection. All the updated testimonies are available at 163 access sites worldwide.
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First Visual History Archive site in Africa opens in Rwanda along with the launch of the world's first IWitness classroom

Wed, 10/10/2018 - 3:48pm
The additions will enable the people of Rwanda, who are still dealing with the aftermath of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsis that left as many as 1 million people murdered over the course of 100 days, to connect with people from the past who shared similar experiences.
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Iberoamericana University in Mexico City Opens Visual History Archive Access Site

Thu, 12/07/2017 - 5:00pm
Iberoamericana University in Mexico City is the first university in Latin America to gain full access to the Visual History Archive.
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Visual History Archive Workshop at Clark University on September 13

Wed, 08/30/2017 - 5:00pm
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Visual History Archive Workshops Coming to Northeastern University, Keene State College and University of Pennsylvania

Tue, 03/21/2017 - 5:00pm
The workshop will cover the history of the archive, strategies for searching the testimonies, and examples of how the VHA has been used in classroom teaching.
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USC Shoah Foundation Adds New Holocaust Testimony Collection from JFCS to its Visual History Archive

More than 900 Holocaust testimonies recorded over four decades by the Jewish Family and Children Services Holocaust Center of San Francisco (JFCS) are now fully integrated into USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive as part of the Preserving the Legacy initiative – an ambitious plan to save recorded eyewitness testimony and bring voices of genocide survivors to a wider audience.

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