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| Name: | Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre |
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| Affiliation: | |
| ADDRESS: | 5151 Cote St. Catherine Rd.
Montreal, Quebec H3W 1M6 |
| COUNTRY: | Canada |
| TELEPHONE NUMBER: | +(1-514) 345-2605 |
| FAX: | +(1-514) 344-2651 |
| EMAIL: | mhmc@accent.net |
| WEBSITE: | http://www.mhmc.ca/en/index.html |
| OPERATING HOURS: | Open by appointment only. |
| CONTACT PERSON(S): | Primary Contact:
Ms. Natasha Laliberté, Coordinator, "Witness-to-History"
Primary Contact:
Mr. Bill A. Surkis, Executive Director
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| GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION: | The Montreal Memorial Holocaust Centre, established in 1979, is committed to the preservation of historic, cultural and ethnographic material relating to European and North African Jews victimized under Nazi Germany. The Centre produces exhibits and various programs that explore Jewish culture and history and that speak to issues of racism. |
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| OVERVIEW OF ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION: | The Centre has over 3000 hours of testimony in its collection. It considers the accumulation of testimony from the third largest survivor population worldwide as a particularly important mandate. |
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| Collect Holocaust Oral Histories: | No. |
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| Interview Guidelines: | Yes. |
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| Additional Information: | Information Not Available. |
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| Project Complete: | Information Not Available. |
| Year of First Interview: | 1994 |
| Year of Last Interview: | Information Not Available. |
| Interviews Per Year: | 175 |
| Average Hours Per Interview: | 2 |
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| RECORDING METHOD | |
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| Audio: | Yes. |
| Number of Audio Hours: | approximately 100 |
| Total Number of Audio Interviews: | +-30 |
| Number of Audio Reel-To-Reel Interviews: | No. |
| Number of Audiocassette Interviews: | +-30 |
| Number of Interviews in Other Audio Formats: | Information Not Available. |
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| Video: | Yes. |
| Number of Video Hours: | 456 |
| Total Number of Video Interviews: | 198 |
| Number of 1/2-inch Betacam-SP Interviews: | No. |
| Number of 3/4-inch U-matic Interviews: | No. |
| Number of 1/2-inch VHS interviews: | 198 |
| Number of Film interviews: | No. |
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| RULES: | |
| Access to Collection: | Closed. Information Not Available. |
| Special Requirements for Access or Use: | Must be bona fide researchers (ie. students in masters or doctoral programs at local universities, professors of Holocaust Studies, genocide Studies, Jewish Studies). |
| Notice Required to Pull Tapes or Reserve Facility: | Need preliminary discussion with coordinator or director followed by appointment. |
| Access Fee: | No. |
| Research Services: | No. |
| Research Fee: | N/A |
| Research Services Requirements: | N/A |
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| Permission Required for Use of Material in | |
| Publications: | Yes. |
| Classrooms: | No. |
| Public Lectures: | Yes. |
| Documentaries: | Yes. |
| How To Obtain permission: | Written request must be sent to the Centre. Person is granted permission by return correspondence indicating that the MHMC should be noted in text as source of info. |
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| RESOURCES | |
| Format of Collection | |
| Video/Audio: | Video Only. |
| Transcripts: | Yes. |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
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| On-Site Equipment | |
| Audio: | No. |
| Video: | Yes. |
| Users Can Bring Their Own: | No. |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
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| Finding Aids | |
| Guide to Collection Available: | No. |
| Published: | N/A |
| Guide Cost: | N/A |
| Address to Obtain Guide: | N/A |
| Additional Information: | Information Not Available. |
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| Transcripts | |
| Audio: | None. |
| Video: | None. |
| Available for photocopying: | None. |
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| Summaries | |
| Summarized: | No. |
| Available for Photocopying: | No. |
| Available on Disk: | No. |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
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| Indices | |
| Tapes Indexed: | Yes. |
| Transcripts Indexed: | No. |
| Summaries Indexed: | No. |
| Indices Available for Photocopying: | No. |
| Indices Available on Disk: | No. |
| Other: | No. |
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| Cataloging Information | |
| Collection Cataloged: | Yes. |
| Available on Computer: | In-house database program. |
| Other: | N/A |
| MARC Format: | N/A |
| MARC Format Type: | N/A |
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| Internet Resources | |
| Web Address: | Information Not Available. |
| Transcripts: | No. |
| Summaries: | No. |
| Catalog: | No. |
| Indices: | No. |
| Interview Clips: | No. |
| Other: | No.. |
| Additional Information: | No. |
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| Bibliographic Information | |
| Belong to: | Information Not Available. |
| OCLC: | N/A |
| RLIN: | N/A |
| Other: | N/A |
| Plan to Join: | Information Not Available. |
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| Loan or Purchase | |
| Material Available Through Interlibrary Loan: | No. |
| Loan by other collection: | No. |
| Loan Fee: | N/A |
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| DETAIL ABOUT COLLECTION CONTENT | |
| Demographic Information about Interviewees: | |
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| Total Number: | plus 100 audio |
| Total Female: | video |
| Total Male: | video |
| No Data: | Information Not Available. |
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Female |
Male |
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Other Information |
| Jews: | 98 | 100 | 198 | Yes. |
| Roma and/or Sinti: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Political Prisoners: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Prisoners of War: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Jehovah’s Witnesses: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Homosexual Men/Lesbian Women: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Resisters: | | 1 | 1 | Yes. |
| Partisans: | | 3 | 3 | Yes. |
| Rescuers: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Refugees: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Liberators: | | 3 | 3 | Yes. |
| Prosecutors: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Perpetrators/ Collaborators: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Refugee Relief Workers: | | 1 | 1 | Yes. |
| Other: | | | | Information Not Available. |
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| Additional Information: | Information Not Available. |
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| Focus of Collection: | |
| Ghetto(s) | | |
| Camp(s) | | |
| Geographic Area(s) | | |
| Experience(s) | | |
| Survivor Group(s) | | |
| Other | | |
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| Additional Information: | Information Not Available. |
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