Overview
The University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive is a video archive of testimonials from Holocaust survivors, witnesses and liberators. An important historical resource, the archive includes nearly 52,000 video testimonies collected in 32 languages and from 56 countries by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.
In 2006, RENCI took the lead in reaching an agreement to bring this valuable historic archive to North Carolina campuses by providing enterprise servers, local storage space, technical support, the necessary bandwidth to use the archive and a Web front end to enable easy access to its contents. RENCI agreed to host a portion of the video testimonies, which gave the UNC Chapel Hill campus access to the entire archive. Access has since been expanded and today the archive is available to faculty, staff and students at UNC Chapel Hill, UNC Greensboro, Duke University, and NC State University. The general public may access the archive from any of these four campus networks. The archive is an important historical resource that can enhance many fields of learning and research, including history, language, literature, art and the sciences.
Overview
The University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive is a video archive of testimonials from Holocaust survivors, witnesses and liberators. An important historical resource, the archive includes nearly 52,000 video testimonies collected in 32 languages and from 56 countries by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.
In 2006, RENCI took the lead in reaching an agreement to bring this valuable historic archive to North Carolina campuses by providing enterprise servers, local storage space, technical support, the necessary bandwidth to use the archive and a Web front end to enable easy access to its contents. RENCI agreed to host a portion of the video testimonies, which gave the UNC Chapel Hill campus access to the entire archive. Access has since been expanded and today the archive is available to faculty, staff and students at UNC Chapel Hill, UNC Greensboro, Duke University, and NC State University. The general public may access the archive from any of these four campus networks. The archive is an important historical resource that can enhance many fields of learning and research, including history, language, literature, art and the sciences.
Funding
State of North Carolina
UNC Chapel Hill
Duke University
North Carolina State University
UNC Greensboro
Partners
USC Shoah Foundation Institute
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Duke University
North Carolina State University
Project Team
Karen Green, project leader
Joe E. Hope
Jim Mahaney
Links
vha.renci.org
USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
