Institute at a Glance
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, with an archive of nearly 52,000 videotaped testimonies from Holocaust survivors and other witnesses, is part of the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California. (Read about our move to USC.) The USC Shoah Foundation Institute works with a global network of partners to provide an array of valuable educational services that reach educators, students, and the general public around the world.
Download a PDF of our Major Accomplishments for 2008
Digital Access to the Entire Archive
Digital access to the Institute’s archive is possible via connection to Internet2, or its variants in other countries, to universities in the U.S. and abroad, allowing students, faculty, and the community to use testimonies in classroom settings and for research purposes. 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 36 other universities and institutions in Australia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, and the United States. The Institute will continue expanding access to other universities and institutions in 2009.
Visual History in the Classroom -
Higher Education
Integration of testimonies from the archive in University courses, seminars, and research
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More than 100 courses taught using the archive |
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Visual History in the Classroom - Secondary
Testimony-based classroom activity, including products, lessons, activities, and screenings.
Reaching more than 78,000 schools and more than 2 million students worldwide
19 educational resources on DVD, VHS, or on the Institute’s website |
Visual History Training
Designed to guide educators through various ways in which visual history testimony can be incorporated into lessons and classroom activities.
| 114 teacher trainings conducted for educators in 13 countries |
Visual History Collections
Collections of testimonies from the archive, accessible for research, educational purposes, and general use at libraries, museums, universities, and other institutions worldwide. Collections include some, or all of the testimonies collected by the Institute in a specific city, country, or language.
104 collections established in institutions in 23 countries:
- 58 collection in 22 countries, excluding the U.S.
- 46 collections in 27 U.S. States
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Documentaries
Feature-length films that draw almost exclusively from the
Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive.
| 11 films, broadcast in 50 countries and subtitled in 28 languages |
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