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The “Key Videos” section of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) website offers a series of educational videos that explore various aspects of Holocaust history. This collection includes films about Holocaust survivors’ experiences, the museum’s collections and the general history of the Holocaust.
These videos are a valuable tool for anyone who wants to engage with the history of the Holocaust. They provide insights into personal experiences and historical events. The museum’s collection is also featured on YouTube, where you can find additional educational films, documentaries and interviews with eyewitnesses to history.
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Yad Vashem’s Video Testimonies Resource Centre of Yad Vashem includes interviews with individuals who survived the Holocaust. Collecting and archiving testimonies from Holocaust survivors is a central part of preserving the memory of the Holocaust and transmitting that memory to future generations.
The Video Testimonies Resource Centre includes a selection of the 36,000 interviews in the collection, available to view online. The database can be searched by topic or location.
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The Austrian Heritage Archive is a digital collection of interviews with eyewitnesses to the Holocaust period. It includes interviews with Austrian-Jewish emigrants who fled from the Nazis to the United States, Canada or Israel. The collection documents their personal experiences, life stories and memories of life before, during and after the Holocaust. These interviews are an important source for the study of Jewish history and the impact of Nazism on individual people’s lives.
The Austrian Heritage Archive website currently contains 20 complete interviews, which have been transcribed and supplemented by biographical materials. This collection comprises more than 800 interviews, forming one of the most extensive archives on Jewish-Austrian emigration to the US and Israel. These interviews have been conducted, recorded and archived over the past two decades, initially at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York and, since 2013, also at the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem.
For your research, this collection offers valuable insights into the personal experiences and stories of Austrian-Jewish émigrés. The transcribed interviews allow you to trace the life stories of these individuals and gain a deeper understanding of their experiences during and after the Nazi era.