Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. [Internet resource] (ID: 32669)
Authorship or Source:
- Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.
- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- Twitty, Robert.
Year:
[2003]
Title or Main Description:
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. [Internet resource]
Place Published or Holding Institution:
Washington, D.C. : U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Description:
- HTML documents
- Number of Names or Other Entries-- Approx. 50,000 Names.
Type of Work:
HTML documents linking to searchable databases
Alternate or Series Title:
Visual History Foundation at USHMM.
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
Available only to authorized U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum staff through the local USHMM Computer Network's "Intranet" at http://vhf.ushmm.org/.
Provenance:
Database and search engines devised by Robert Twitty of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Office of Outreach Technology, 100 R. Wallenberg Pl., SW, Washington, D.C. 20024 using data compiled by the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, PO Box 3168. Los Angeles, CA 90078-3168.
Keywords:
- Holocaust survivors --Biography --Abstracts.
- Holocaust survivors --Registers.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Personal narratives --Catalogs.
- Jews --Archival resources --Catalogs.
- Jews --Biography --Abstracts.
- Jews --History --Sources.
- Jews --Interviews --Catalogs.
- Oral History --Catalogs.
- Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. --Catalogs.
- Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. --Indexes.
Abstract:
An easy-to-use search system that provides access to information about all of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation testimony data. This worldwide Holocaust oral history gathering foundation is also frequently referred to simply as the "Shoah Foundation" or the "Spielberg Project," and has interviewed over 50,000 persons. At present this database offers only textual data, and NOT the actual videos that the data describe. This a work in process as these interviews continue to be cataloged, and not every interview record is completely indexed. This database is part of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's cooperative work with the Shoah Foundation. For more information on viewing or obtaining copies of the interviews described in this catalog, contact: Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, PO Box 3168. Los Angeles, CA 90078-3168. Tel. 818-777-7802, or visit their website at http://www.vhf.org.
Language and Other Notes:
- Database Contents: General Search--People Search--Location Search--Form Browse.
- Catalog records typically include: interview code (i.e. "IntCode"), date, interviewee, interviewer, videographer, volunteer, primary language, type of interviewee (i.e. "Form(s)"), biographical summary, names of others mentioned during interview (i.e. "PIQ people"), locations, keywords and topical descriptions of segments.
- PLEASE NOTE: As a consequence of the December 2006 USHMM Computer Network "Tundra server crash," as of January 2007 search results returned by this database are no longer complete nor clearly formatted as before. It can, however, still be used to verify the names of interviewees, the dates of their interview(s) and often to retrieve summaries thereof. In view of the planned Spring 2007 arrival at the USHMM of the interviews themselves together with revised related database systems, there are no current plans to revise or repair this older "broken" catalog system.
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