Visual History Archive: About

European Holocaust, 1939-1945

• USC Shoah Foundation—51,456
• Florida Holocaust Museum--25
• Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus—25
• Holocaust Museum Houston—277
• Jewish Family and Children's Services (JFCS), San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties—912

• Canadian Collections—1,234

                Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives--64
                Calgary Jewish Federation--10
                Concordia University Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling--30
                Freeman Family Foundation Holocaust Education Centre--52
                Jewish Archives & Historical Society of Edmonton & Northern Alberta--15
                Living Testimonies, McGill University--104
                Montreal Holocaust Museum--550
                Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre--406
                Ottawa Jewish Archives--3

Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923

• Armenian Film Foundation--333
• Richard G. Hovannisian Armenian Genocide Oral History Collection--10
• USC Shoah Foundation--1

Cambodian Genocide, 1975-1979

• USC Shoah Foundation--5

Central African Republic Conflict, 2012-present

• USC Shoah Foundation--4

Contemporary Antisemitism

• USC Shoah Foundation--15

Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, 1994

• Holocaust Museum Houston--1
• Kigali Genocide Memorial--70
• USC Shoah Foundation--15

Guatemalan Genocide, 1978-1996

• Fundación de Antropologia Forense de Guatemala (FAFG)--31
• USC Shoah Foundation--1

Nanjing Massacre, 1937

• USC Shoah Foundation--30

South Sudan Civil War, 1913-

• USC Shoah Foundation--4

updated 20 March 2018

The Visual History Archive contains interviews with witnesses of mass violence including:

• 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda (1994) with the following experience groups: elder, Hutu power opponent, rescuer, Tutsi survivor, victim's spouse;
• Armenian Genocide (1915-23) with the following experience groups:  Armenian survivor, descendant, foreign witness, rescuer and aid provider, scholar, Yezidi survivor, and miscellaneous; 
• Cambodian Genocide with the following experience groups:  Cambodian genocide survivor;
• Central African Republic Conflict with the following experience group: Central African Republic conflict witness;
• Contemporary Antisemitism with the following experience group:  interviewee
• European Holocaust (1939-45) with the following experience groups:  Eugenic policies survivor, homosexual survivor, Jehovah's Witness survivor, Jewish survivor, liberator, Non-Jewish forced laborer, political prisoner, rescuer and aid provider, Sinti and Roma survivor, War Crimes Trial participant, and miscellaneous;
• Guatemalan Genocide (1978-96) with the following experience groups: Guatemalan Genocide survivor;
• Nanjing Massacre (1937) with the following experience groups: Nanjing Massacre survivor; and
• South Sudan Civil War (2013-present) with the following experience groups:  Conflict witness.

The Visual History Archive is a fully streaming primary source that includes:

• More than 54,400 video testimonies at an average of two hours each
• Roughly 116,000 hours of film (equal to 13 years’ continuous streaming content)
• Over 900 German transcripts and almost 1000 English transcripts.
• Almost 65,000 index terms in English, applied at the one-minute segment
• Over 719,000 images (photographs, documents, works of art, artifacts from war, etc.)
• Filmed in 63 countries
• Testimonies given in over 40 languages
• 1.9 million names of family members and prominent figures
• Roughly 49,000 locations referenced
• 2,500 recitations of literary works (poems, letters, diaries)
• Over 2,100 musical recitals
• 2,300 interviewers
• 1,000 videographers