The Digital Library provides access to the University of Southern California's Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education. The foundation archive contains nearly 52,000 visual history testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust videotaped in 56 countries and in 32 languages.

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute works with a global network of partners, like Texas A&M University, to provide an array of valuable educational services that reach educators, students and the general public around the world.

Digital access is possible via connection to Internet2. Internet2 is a high-capacity network capable of more effective data transmission than the Internet. In addition to the University of Southern California, the archive is currently available at 15 other universities and institutions in Australia, Germany and the United States.

Shoah is a Hebrew word meaning "disaster" or "conflagration." The Shoa, or HaShoah (Ha meaning 'The'), is commonly used to refer to the Holocaust.

Video interviews include Jewish survivors, homosexual survivors, Jehovah’s Witness survivors, liberators and liberation witnesses, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, Roma and Sinti (Gypsy) survivors, survivors of Eugenics policies, and war crimes trials participants.

To access the Visual History Archive, please click here: http://vha.usc.edu/v600/default.aspx

Patrons who wish to learn more about using this collection, contact:
Joel Kitchens, associate professor and humanities librarian
979-862-1051
jdkitchens@library.tamu.edu