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ORGANIZATION
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Name:Gedenkstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz
Translated Name:House of the Wannsee Conference
Affiliation: 
ADDRESS:Am Großen Wannsee 56-58
Berlin   D-14109
COUNTRY:Germany
TELEPHONE NUMBER:+(49-30) 80-50-01-24
FAX:+(49-30) 80-50-01-27
EMAIL:info@ghwk.de
WEBSITE:http://www.ghwk.de
OPERATING HOURS:Monday - Friday 10:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m. The permanent exhibition will be closed between October 1, 2005 and January 22, 2006 due to reconstruction and alterations.
CONTACT PERSON(S):Gaby M. Oelrichs, Head of the library
Phone: +49-30-80500124
Email: oelrichs@ghwk.de

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION:The present site was used as an SS guest house between 1941 and 1945. On January 20, 1942, fifteen high-ranking SS representatives and others met to discuss how to cooperate on the deportation and murder of European Jews.

The site is now used to provide information about the victims, perpetrators through the permanent exhibition, libray and educational programs.
  
OVERVIEW OF ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION:The archive from the oral history project with Jewish Holocaust survivors from the Berlin and Brandenburg area, conducted by the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish Studies, is located at the Gedenkstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz (Memorial of the House of the Wannsee Conference). It is open to the public.
  
Collect Holocaust Oral Histories:No.
  
Interview Guidelines:Information Not Available.
  
Additional Information:Information Not Available.
  
Project Complete:Yes.
Year of First Interview:1995
Year of Last Interview:1997
Interviews Per Year:Information Not Available.
Average Hours Per Interview:Information Not Available.
  
RECORDING METHOD 
  
Audio:No.
Number of Audio Hours:N/A
Total Number of Audio Interviews:N/A
Number of Audio Reel-To-Reel Interviews:N/A
Number of Audiocassette Interviews:N/A
Number of Interviews in Other Audio Formats:N/A.
  
Video:Yes.
Number of Video Hours:Information Not Available.
Total Number of Video Interviews:70
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:Yes.
Number of Film interviews:No.
  
RULES: 
Access to Collection:Open. Information Not Available.
Special Requirements for Access or Use:Make appointment and bring identification.
Notice Required to Pull Tapes or Reserve Facility:Yes.
Access Fee:Information Not Available.
Research Services:No.
Research Fee:N/A
Research Services Requirements:N/A
  
Permission Required for Use of Material in 
Publications:Yes.
Classrooms:Yes.
Public Lectures:Yes.
Documentaries:Yes.
How To Obtain permission:Either by the museum or in some cases by the inerviewees.
  
RESOURCES 
Format of Collection 
Video/Audio:Information Not Available.
Transcripts:Information Not Available.
Other:Information Not Available.
  
On-Site Equipment 
Audio:Information Not Available.
Video:Yes.
Users Can Bring Their Own:Information Not Available.
Other:Information Not Available.
  
Finding Aids 
Guide to Collection Available:No.
Published:N/A
Guide Cost:N/A
Address to Obtain Guide:Information Not Available.
Additional Information:Information Not Available.
  
Transcripts 
Audio:N/A
Video:10
Available for photocopying:10
  
Summaries 
Summarized:No.
Available for Photocopying:Yes (only abstracts).
Available on Disk:No.
Other:Information Not Available.
  
Indices 
Tapes Indexed:No.
Transcripts Indexed:No.
Summaries Indexed:Yes.
Indices Available for Photocopying:No.
Indices Available on Disk:No.
Other:Information Not Available.
  
Cataloging Information 
Collection Cataloged:Yes.
Available on Computer:Yes.
Other:Information Not Available.
MARC Format:No.
MARC Format Type:N/A
  
Internet Resources 
Web Address:http://www.ghwk.de
Transcripts:No.
Summaries:No.
Catalog:No.
Indices:No.
Interview Clips:No.
Other:No..
Additional Information:No.
  
Bibliographic Information 
Belong to:Information Not Available.
OCLC:N/A
RLIN:N/A
Other:N/A
Plan to Join:No.
  
Loan or Purchase 
Material Available Through Interlibrary Loan:No.
Loan by other collection:No.
Loan Fee:N/A
  
DETAIL ABOUT COLLECTION CONTENT 
Demographic Information about Interviewees: 
  
Total Number:70
Total Female:0
Total Male:0
No Data:Information Not Available.
  
  Female Male Total Other Information
Jews:   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:   Information Not Available.
Partisans:   Information Not Available.
Rescuers:   Information Not Available.
Refugees:   Information Not Available.
Liberators:   Information Not Available.
Prosecutors:   Information Not Available.
Perpetrators/ Collaborators:   Information Not Available.
Refugee Relief Workers:   Information Not Available.
Other:   Information Not Available.
  
Additional Information:Information Not Available.
  
Focus of Collection: 
Ghetto(s) 
Camp(s) 
Geographic Area(s) 
Experience(s) 
Survivor Group(s) 
Other 
  
Additional Information:List of the interviewees is published in: Archiv der Erinnerung: Interviews mit Überlebenden der Shoa Vol. 1 and 2 Berlin, 1998.