FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY
What is THE Visual History Archive (VHA) or Shoah?
Established in 1994 to preserve the audio-visual histories of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust, the USC Shoah Foundation maintains one of the largest video digital libraries in the world: the Visual History Archive (VHA). This collection of 55,000 audiovisual interviews with witnesses of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, the anti-Rohingya mass violence in Myanmar, the Cambodian Genocide, the Central African Republic Conflict, contemporary antisemitism, the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, the Guatemalan Genocide, the Nanjing Massacre, and the South Sudan Civil War were gathered by
In order to view all 55,000 interviews, you must be in the FAU Libraries or be a currently enrolled student, faculty, or staff member. Our full access subscription to VHA allows our users to access all VHA testimonies.
For those do not meet the above criteria, the VHA allows access to all metadata of the Archive (indexing of what is available), as well as 4,000 freely accessible testimonies. These 4,000 full-lenth video testimonies can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection. The indexing terms include geographical locations and time periods as well as location names and experience groups. The names of the 1.966 million individuals mentioned in the Archive are also indexed and searchable. A free registration form for accessing these freely available testimonies in the Visual History Archive Online can be found at https://vhaonline.usc.edu/login.aspx.
(information courtesy of USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive at https://vha.usc.edu/home).
Wired headphones or earbuds are required to listen to these testimonies. Please bring your own wired devices as we do NOT have any available for lending or purchase.
