USC Shoah Foundation Institute

To overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry
—and the suffering they cause—
through the educational use of the Institute’s visual history testimonies

This video is a short segment from a testimony in the Institute’s archive, which contains nearly 52,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses in 32 languages and from 56 countries. To search and view full testimonies at an institute near you, use the Archive Access Locator.

Click on a thumbnail below to view another clip of a testimony from the Archive:

Major Activities

Access to the Testimonies:

Working with universities, archives, museums, and other institutions to establish new points of access to the archive around the world. Find an archive access site near you.

Teacher Education:

Augmenting outreach to secondary school educators and students: in the U.S., through the creation of a new generation of web-based educational tools; and internationally, via partnerships to develop classroom resources. Explore our Living Histories lesson series. Learn more about the Institute's international outreach.

Academic Outreach:

Promoting and supporting widespread use of the archive among undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and visiting scholars at USC and at universities worldwide, and support faculty research. Find resources.

New Content:

Participating in projects to collect and disseminate eyewitness accounts of other genocides. Read about our work with DC-Cam in Cambodia.

Preservation:

Undertaking a multi-year effort to preserve the testimonies in the archive. Learn about our preservation effort.

Featured Resources

Teacher Innovation Network

Are you a teacher? Learn about how you can become a part of the Teacher Innovation Network.

New French Portal

French added to the range of International resources on the Institute site

Foreign-language Resources

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