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USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive (VHA)

Overview
The Visual History Archive (VHA) of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education is a video archive of testimonials from Holocaust survivors and witnesses offered through the USC Shoah Foundation Institute. It is available to the faculty, staff and students at UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University, and North Carolina State University (NCSU), through RENCI. The archive is available to the general public from any of the three campus networks. Public listening/viewing areas are available at Davis Library at UNC and D.H. Hill Library at NC State; and soon at Duke.

The archive includes nearly 52,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors, witnesses and liberators collected in 32 languages and from 56 countries by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute. In 2006, RENCI deployed a 5.5-terabyte digital media cache of the archive, which allows it to host a portion of the video testimonies from the VHA and gave the UNC-Chapel Hill campus access to the entire archive. Access was expanded to Duke and NC State in June 2007.

RENCI Contribution
In addition to hosting one of the VHA’s digital media caches, RENCI’s outreach and education group is developing educational tools that will allow NC universities and secondary schools to use the VHA in the classroom. Opportunities to use the VHA in teaching history, social sciences, psychology, and other subject areas will be explored.. The education and outreach group will also develop VHA-based content for presentation in the RENCI social computing room on the UNC campus to showcase the archive to the campus community.

Collaborators
USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education

RENCI Team
Leesa Brieger, project manager
Jennifer Shelton
Stephenie McLean

Presentations
USC Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive

Publications
RENCI Extends Visual History Archive to Duke, NC State campuses
RENCI Gives Carolina Community Access to USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History Archive

Links
vha.renci.org
USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education