El Archivo de Historia Visual de la Fundación Shoah de la USC es una colección de videos en streaming de más de 55.000 testimonios de sobrevivientes y testigos del Holocausto y otros crímenes de lesa humanidad. El archivo más grande de su tipo, la historia se preserva según lo contado por las personas que la vivieron, y cada testimonio ofrece conocimientos y conocimientos únicos que rara vez están disponibles en el contenido tradicional. La gran mayoría de los testimonios contienen una historia personal completa de la vida antes, durante y después de la experiencia de primera mano del entrevistado con el genocidio.
El Archivo de Historia Visual ofrece múltiples vías para aprender de los testigos oculares de la historia a través del tiempo, ubicaciones, culturas y circunstancias sociopolíticas. El archivo de streaming se digitaliza, se puede buscar completamente y se hace referencia cruzada al contenido de ProQuest propiedad de la institución. Los estudiantes, profesores, investigadores y otros pueden recuperar testimonios y segmentos enteros dentro de los testimonios, con la búsqueda en la transcripción manual basada en minutos, 65.000 términos de índice de palabras clave, 1,9 millones de nombres y 719.000 imágenes.
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Using Visual History Archive in Research, Teaching, and Learning
Tel Aviv University
Primary sources are essential for ongoing Holocaust research – an area in which Tel Aviv University has an active and growing research community. The library team have found a way to improve the range and discoverability of their primary sources by partnering with ProQuest to provide access to the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive. This one-of-a-kind collection brings together streaming video testimonies from survivors of and witnesses to the Holocaust and other crimes against humanity.
Read case studyBring Content to Advanced Language Course
Professor Keaveney’s upper-level French course explores themes of love, loss, collective and personal memory, and modernity through readings of French literary texts, theoretical readings, films, poems, and songs. One of the texts used in the class is the French novel Dora Bruder, which tells the story of a young girl who was sent to Auschwitz. The book combines different aspects of memory, loss, life, chronology, and French history, and reconstructs what the girl’s life may have been like, even though very little is known about her.
Read case studyIlluminating Depictions of Wartime Atrocities
Professor Roxworthy’s course Animation, Simulation, and Performance focuses on graphic representations of war, such as comic books, animated films, and video games about World War II and the global war on terror. Students learn how to analyze still and moving images of wartime atrocities, particularly in terms of the impact that different representational media have on the communicative power of these images.
Read case studyFrom the viewpoint of historians, the most important benefit of using testimonies is that they bring into history events that would otherwise remain completely unknown, since they are missing from conventional documentation found in archives—most of which was written by perpetrators and organizers of genocide. Testimonies can save events from oblivion, but they can also provide very different perspectives of events known through conventional documentation.
Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund, Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of History and Professor of German Studies, Brown University
Using Visual History Archive for Research, Teaching, and Learning a Varity of Topics
Gender and Identity
The Visual History Archive contains thousands of testimonies discussing topics and issues related to gender and identity. Available searchable terms related to gender and identity lead to exact moments in testimonies where these topics are discussed by many groups of interviewees, including survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust, Rwandan genocide, Armenian Genocide, and other crimes against humanity.
Read moreGeography
The Visual History Archive contains thousands of geographical location terms that span five continents and include historical and existing places, specific forests, mountains, rivers, and lakes, and hundreds of thematic terms related to place, space, and the movement of people. These searchable terms lead to exact moments in testimonies where the topics are discussed, and the VHA infrastructure includes vast geographic metadata, including latitudes and longitudes of all locations.
Read moreLaw
The Visual History Archive contains thousands of testimonies by survivors of genocide attesting to the ways in which legal mechanisms were employed to oppress, divide, and inflict violence upon targeted, marginalized groups. Many of the testimonies also address the legal means used to exact justice in the aftermath of these catastrophic human rights violations, including numerous trials that took place following the Holocaust and other genocides. The searchable terms below, and many others, lead to exact moments in testimonies where the topics are discussed, often accompanied by transcripts and useful metadata.
Read moreMedicine
The Visual History Archive contains thousands of testimonies by survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides discussing lack of medical care, eugenics, medical experimentation, and many related topics relevant to the field of medicine, with searchable terms leading to the exact moments where these themes are discussed. The archive also provides a vast amount of easily searchable, personalized, primary source data relevant to the intersection of medical and Holocaust studies, a burgeoning area of exploration particularly within the field of medical ethics.
Read morePolitical Beliefs, Age, and Social Class
The Visual History Archive contains over 55,000 oral history testimonies of interviewees of diverse age and social class background. More than 250 of these testimonies are by interviewees who were incarcerated by the Nazi regime as political opponents during the Second World War, including members of different political parties in occupied territories and members of resistance movements.
Read moreRace and Ethnicity
The Visual History Archive contains thousands of testimonies discussing topics and issues related to race and ethnicity. Available searchable terms related to these concepts lead to exact moments in testimonies where the topics are discussed by many groups of interviewees, often accompanied by transcripts and useful metadata.
Read moreReligion
The Visual History Archive contains thousands of testimonies by survivors and witnesses of genocide and mass violence attesting to the roles that faith, religion, and religious figures played in their experiences and survival of those events, as well as in their lives after genocide. The archive contains testimonies from members of many different faiths, including Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, and others. The searchable terms below, and many others, lead to exact moments in testimonies where the topics are discussed, often accompanied by transcripts and useful metadata.
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