About the Visual history archive
With a collection of nearly 52,000 video testimonies in 32 languages and from 56 countries, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s archive is the largest visual history archive in the world. The Institute interviewed Jewish survivors, homosexual survivors, Jehovah’s Witness survivors, liberators and liberation witnesses, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, Roma and Sinti survivors (Gypsy), survivors of Eugenics policies, and war crimes trials participants.
Read a more detailed description of the content in VHA.
Through a new licensing agreement between the University of Minnesota and the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, all students, faculty, and staff of the University of Minnesota now have web-based access to the Visual History Archive (VHA). The general public can also access the archive using computer workstations on the University of Minnesota campus.
The University of Minnesota’s license agreement for the VHA is sponsored by a partnership between the University of Minnesota Libraries and the Office of Information Technology.
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(Accessible only from workstations on the University of Minnesota — Twin Cities campus)
Questions about this site? E-mail us at vhahelp@umn.edu