The University of Southern California's (USC) Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive Online (VHA Online) is an online searchable database of more than 4,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust, other genocides, and contemporary acts of violence against Jews. VHA Online is the free and online component of the Visual History Archive (VHA), which holds over 54,000 video testimonies in total and is only accessible to subscribing institutions or for the public at access sites around the world. VHA Online enables researchers to search cataloguing and indexing data of these videotaped interviews, each one of which is an unedited, primary source of information consisting of a single survivor or other witness speaking about his or her life before, during, and after the genocide, guided by questions from a trained interviewer. The interviews average 2.5 hours in length. Access to VHA Online requires free user registration.
(Description adapted from information on project website)
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- (North) Macedonia
- Armenia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Cambodia
- China
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Czechoslovakia
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Denmark
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Guatemala
- Hungary
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia / Soviet Union
- Rwanda
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sudan
- Sweden
- The Netherlands
- Ukraine
- Yugoslavia
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The University of Southern California's (USC) Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive Online (VHA Online) is an online searchable database of more than 4,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust, other genocides, and contemporary acts of violence against Jews. VHA Online is the free and online component of the Visual History Archive (VHA), which holds over 54,000 video testimonies in total and is only accessible to subscribing institutions or for the public at access sites around the world. VHA Online enables researchers to search cataloguing and indexing data of these videotaped interviews, each one of which is an unedited, primary source of information consisting of a single survivor or other witness speaking about his or her life before, during, and after the genocide, guided by questions from a trained interviewer. The interviews average 2.5 hours in length. Access to VHA Online requires free user registration.
(Description adapted from information on project website)