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Institute Reaches Preservation Milestone
May 5, 2009
The Institute reached a milestone, completing the digital transfer of the first batch of 15,000 testimony tapes and has already received its shipment of the next 15,000.
See video about our preservation effort.
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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:
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Global Initiatives
Access to the Archive:
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.
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.
Scholarship and Research:
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 partnership with IBUKA in Rwanda.
Preservation of Current Content:
Undertaking a multi-year effort to preserve the testimonies in the archive. Learn about our preservation effort.
Online Features
Living Histories: Seven Voices from the Holocaust
In commemoration of Yom Hashoah, the Institute launches a new series of modular lessons
Stories of Liberation
The new Witnesses for Change educational resource series launches with a lesson that focuses on seven Holocaust survivors and liberators sharing their perspectives and recollections of liberation.
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