USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education

Contact Information

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Address
Leavey Library, 650 West 35th Street, Suite 400 Basement Level Los Angeles, CA 90012
Hours
Monday-Friday, 9am-5 pm
Contact
vhi-web@usc.edu
Alternate Contact
Website
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/vhi/

USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education

USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education
Leavey Library, 650 West 35th Street, Suite 400Basement Level
Los Angeles, CA. 90012

Access and Management

Access

Available to the public?
Yes
Available to outside researchers?
Yes
Reservations required?
Yes
Onsite technology available
Yes
Catalog System
A controlled vocabulary of index terms has been applied to specific time-codes of each video testimony. The digitized interviews can be searched and viewed using the Visual History Archive search tool. Biographical information about each interviewee is se
Repository
Yes
Access procedures

Please call (213) 740-6001; or, send email to vhi-web@usc.edu.

Management

Archive / Collection information

The mission of USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education is to develop empathy, understanding and respect through the use of testimony. Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive contains 55,000 videotaped interviews with witnesses to the Holocaust and other genocides that were conducted in 65 countries and in 43 languages over the period 1994-2018. The approximately 2,600 interviews that were gathered in Los Angeles relate to the experiences of Jewish Holocaust survivors who came to the city during and after World War II.

Organization type
Archive College/University
Topic(s)
African Descent Armenian Descent European Descent Jewish Descent Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Religious
Language(s)
Armenian Chinese English French German Hebrew Italian Japanese Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Russian Spanish Yiddish
Time period(s)
1900-1920 1921-1949 1950-1963 1964-1980 1981-Present