Two Thousand Witnesses Tell Their Stories
5.000 hours of life stories from the Shoah Visual History Archive
With the help of 70 summarizers, the Jewish Historical
Museum has made 2.000 eyewitness testimonies from the Visual
History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute in Los
Angeles fully searchable. This is the largest oral history archive
on the Shoah in the Netherlands and can now be searched in its
entirety.
The interviews can be viewed in the Hollandsche Schouwburg
and the Jewish Historical Museum. An impression:
The complete archive, assembled on the initiative of Steven
Spielberg, consists of nearly 52.000 interviews with survivors of
and eyewitnesses to the Shoah from all over the world. From this
archive, the Jewish Historical Museum selected 2.000 interviews
related to the Netherlands.
Thousand of these testimonies were recorded in the
Netherlands, another thousand testimonies tell the stories of
Dutch Jews living in the United States, Israel, Canada,
Australia, and many other countries.
Included in the project are also testimonies with rescuers, Jehovah's Witnesses, and liberators who took part in the liberation of the Netherlands in 1944 (south) and 1945 (north).
A group of over 50 people, working at home on a freelance basis, are indexing the interviews in a webbased application. Of each testimony a summary, divided in chapters, is being made. Apart from the text, there are subject keywords, locations and dates added on time codes.
Now the museum audience have access to the collection
of interviews, through a user friendly search interface.
The interviews are not available online.
If you have any questions related to the video archive,
don't hestitate to contact the Rescource Centre.
Monday until friday, 9.00 - 17.00.
JHM Recource Centre
T +31 (0)20 5 310 320
E Recource Centre
The software for Two Thousand Witnesses Tell Their Stories
is developed by Noterik bv.
