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| Name: | United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
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| ADDRESS: | 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC 20024 |
| COUNTRY: | United States |
| TELEPHONE NUMBER: | +(1-202) 488-6113 (Archives ref. desk)
+(1-202) 488-0400 |
| FAX: | +(1-202) 479-9726 or +(1-202) 488-2690 |
| EMAIL: | archives@ushmm.org |
| WEBSITE: | http://www.ushmm.org |
| OPERATING HOURS: | Monday - Sunday 10:00 a.m -- 5:00 p.m. Oral histories available only by appointment on weekends. |
| CONTACT PERSON(S): | Primary Contact:
Mrs. Michlean Amir, Reference Archivist
Phone: +(1-202) 488-6113
Email: mamir@ushmm.org
Primary Contact:
Mr. Henry Mayer, Chief Archivist
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| GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION: | The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America’s national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country’s memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust. |
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| OVERVIEW OF ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION: | The Museum’s oral history archive contains over 8,500 interviews, of which approximately 6,000 are video and 2,500 are audio. Many have been collected from other organizations and individuals, while over 1,800 have been produced by the Museum’s own Department of Oral History.
The Department of Oral History has produced interviews with survivors of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution, including Jews, Roma [“Gypsies”], Polish gentiles, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, and political prisoners. These were conducted in several countries: Belarus, Czech Republic, Greece , Israel , Macedonia, Poland, Ukraine, the United States, and the former Yugoslavia. In addition, there are almost 140 audio interviews with Jewish and non-Jewish survivors specifically about their post-Holocaust experiences, focusing on the impact that the Holocaust has had on survivors’ lives.
There are also interviews with resistance fighters, rescuers, witnesses, collaborators, perpetrators, liberators, postwar prosecutors, and relief workers at displaced persons camps. Interviews were conducted in Estonia, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Netherlands, Romania.
The interviews in Belarus, Poland, Ukraine and Israel with survivors were conducted in partnership with Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University.
Below is a list of organizations that have donated their collections to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: This list does not include the hundreds of donations made by individuals of single interviews. Nor does it include the list of oral histories produced by the Museum or the Museum's own Department of Oral History:
USHMM Oral History collections
Kean College of New Jersey collection
University of California, Los Angeles Project
American Jewish Archives Oral History Collection
Holocaust Eyewitness Project collection
Fred Roberts Crawford Witness to the Holocaust Project/Emory University
The Christian Rescuers Project
Tosca Kempler collection
Robert Buckley collection
Jehovah’s Witnesses collection
Larry Papier collection
The Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois collection
Faces of the Holocaust oral history collection
University of Maryland, Baltimore County collection
The Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo collection
University of Wisconsin, River Falls collection
Queensborough Community College collection
The Dallas Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies collection
Jewish Community Federation of Richmond collection
WXXI, Channel 21 (Rochester) collection
Simon Wiesenthal Center collection
Holocaust Living Witness Program collection
Oscar Nathans collection
Bozenna M. Urbanowicz-Gilbride collection
Phoenix Holocaust Survivors Association collection
One Generation After collection
Hawaii Holocaust Project
The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh collection
Harry Burger collection
Rosie Nebenhaus-Ross collection
Cheryl Zoller collection
Dorothy K. Finger collection
The Oregon Holocaust Resource Center
The National Council of Jewish Women Cleveland Section Holocaust Archive Project
Center for Holocaust Studies, Documentation & Research collection
Allentown Jewish Archives
Anton & Etta Berkovits collection
USHMM, Oral History Volunteer collection
American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors oral history collection
Holocaust Survivors Project of Newton, MA
Rabbi & Mrs. Sadi Nahamias collection
The Association Memorie et Documents collection
Imperial War Museum, Oskar Schindler collection
Imperial War Museum, World at War collection
Rosalyn Manowitz/Hebrew Tabernacle Congregation collection
National Council of Jewish Women, Sarasota-Manatee Section/Holocaust Oral History Project collection
University of Michigan, Dearborn Holocaust Survivor Oral History Project
Jewish Community Relations Council, Anti-Defamation League of Minnesota and the Dakotas collection
US Holocaust Memorial Council, Faith in Humankind collection
Jewish Archives Project of the University of Washington collection
Jason Zuckerman collection
Bibliothek fuer Zeitgeschichte, Stuttgart – Ausstellungsprojekt
American Jewish Archives, National Council of Jewish Women
Oscar Nathans collection
Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington collection
Old China Hand Project, California State University, Fullerton collection
William Helmreich collection
South Carolina Council on the Holocaust collection
Julius & Dorothy Koppelman Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center collection
Second Generation of Long Island collection
Roy & Anne Freed collection
Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine collection
Fort Wayne Jewish Federation collection
Project Eternity: The Holocaust Remembered
University of Michigan, Dearborn collection
One Generation After collection
Raoul Wallenberg Project Archive collection
Hadassah Rosensaft collection
“CC” collection
Surviving Generations of the Holocaust, Washington State collection
The Krakow Underground Project collection
Anti-Defamation League of Washington, D.C. collection
Boyan Papazov collection
Uzi Ben-Ami collection
Emmanuel Ringelblum Collection of Oral History Memoirs of the Holocaust collection
The Children of Holocasut Survivors collection
Norman Feld collection
Yad Vashem collection
Power of Conscience: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews collection
Emory University/Fred Roberts Crawford Witness to the Holocaust Project
Line Five collection
Jewish Holocaust Museum & Research Centre collection
Edna Silberman Holocaust Oral History Project collection
Patricia Benezra collection
Barbara Barnett collection
Kean College Education Forum collection
Safe Haven, Inc. collection
Louisa J. Hext collection
Holocaust Documentation & Education collection
Romanian Gypsy Survivors Project collection
German Christian Resisters collection
Ohio University, Belmont collection
Jacky & Lisa Comforty collection
Winnipeg Second Generation Group collection
Ken Jacobsen collection
Western Association of Holocaust Survivors, Families and Friends collection
Canton Jewish Community Federation collection
The Holocaust Research Collection of Florida Atlantic University collection
Gratz College Oral History Archive collection
42nd Rainbow Division collection
Christian Kloesch collection
Illinois Institute of Technology Psychology Laboratory Project : David P. Boder oral history interviews with displaced persons
Mary Mills collection
Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project
Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges collection
Louis Cavagnaro collection
Research Project of Jewish Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps
The Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre collection
The Holocaust Oral History Project of the Anti-Defamation League, Orange County, California collection
Sam Chernawsky collection
Florida Holocaust Museum Survivor Testimony Project collection
Museum of Roma Culture collection
Eugen Czinner collection
Bruce Neuburger collection
Florida Holocaust Museum Survivor Testimony Project collection
Terezin Diary collection
Gedenkstatte Bergen-Belsen collection
Peter Wortsman Collection of Oral History Interviews |
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| Collect Holocaust Oral Histories: | Yes. |
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| Interview Guidelines: | Yes. |
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| Additional Information: | Information Not Available. |
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| Project Complete: | No. |
| Year of First Interview: | 1988 |
| Year of Last Interview: | Ongoing. |
| Interviews Per Year: | 20 - 100 per year. |
| Average Hours Per Interview: | 3 - 5 |
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| RECORDING METHOD | |
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| Audio: | Yes. |
| Number of Audio Hours: | 1000's |
| Total Number of Audio Interviews: | 3000+ |
| Number of Audio Reel-To-Reel Interviews: | 300 |
| Number of Audiocassette Interviews: | 2500 |
| Number of Interviews in Other Audio Formats: | Microcassette. |
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| Video: | Yes. |
| Number of Video Hours: | 1000's |
| Total Number of Video Interviews: | 6000+ |
| Number of 1/2-inch Betacam-SP Interviews: | Information Not Available. |
| Number of 3/4-inch U-matic Interviews: | Information Not Available. |
| Number of 1/2-inch VHS interviews: | Information Not Available. |
| Number of Film interviews: | Yes. 32 interviews |
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| RULES: | |
| Access to Collection: | Open. Information Not Available. |
| Special Requirements for Access or Use: | Access is open except certain interviews are restricted.
All users must fill out researcher application and show photo ID. |
| Notice Required to Pull Tapes or Reserve Facility: | During the week, no. On weekends, yes. |
| Access Fee: | $0.00 |
| Research Services: | No. |
| Research Fee: | No. |
| Research Services Requirements: | No. |
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| Permission Required for Use of Material in | |
| Publications: | Yes. |
| Classrooms: | Yes. |
| Public Lectures: | Yes. |
| Documentaries: | Yes. |
| How To Obtain permission: | Request for use must be submitted to the Chief Archivist. The Archives must be notified if large portions of interviews will be reproduced in print. Audio/Video reproductions requires permission. |
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| RESOURCES | |
| Format of Collection | |
| Video/Audio: | Yes. |
| Transcripts: | Yes. |
| Other: | Many transcripts are now available on the website. |
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| On-Site Equipment | |
| Audio: | Yes. |
| Video: | Yes. |
| Users Can Bring Their Own: | No. |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
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| Finding Aids | |
| Guide to Collection Available: | No. |
| Published: | No. |
| Guide Cost: | Information Not Available. |
| Address to Obtain Guide: | Information Not Available. |
| Additional Information: | Information Not Available. |
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| Transcripts | |
| Audio: | Some. Number is Unknown. |
| Video: | Some. Number is Unknown. |
| Available for photocopying: | Some. Number is Unknown. |
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| Summaries | |
| Summarized: | Yes, for some. |
| Available for Photocopying: | Yes. |
| Available on Disk: | No. |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
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| Indices | |
| Tapes Indexed: | Yes, some. |
| Transcripts Indexed: | Yes, some. |
| Summaries Indexed: | Yes, some. |
| Indices Available for Photocopying: | N/A |
| Indices Available on Disk: | N/A |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
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| Cataloging Information | |
| Collection Cataloged: | Yes. |
| Available on Computer: | Yes. |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
| MARC Format: | Yes. |
| MARC Format Type: | USMARC |
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| Internet Resources | |
| Web Address: | www.ushmm.org |
| Transcripts: | Yes, some; |
| Summaries: | Included in catalog records. |
| Catalog: | Yes. |
| Indices: | No. |
| Interview Clips: | Yes, some. |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
| Additional Information: | Information Not Available. |
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| Bibliographic Information | |
| Belong to: | No. |
| OCLC: | No. |
| RLIN: | No. |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
| Plan to Join: | N/A |
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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: | +8000 |
| Total Female: | Information Not Available. |
| Total Male: | Information Not Available. |
| No Data: | Yes. |
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Male |
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Other Information |
| Jews: | | | | Yes. |
| Roma and/or Sinti: | | | | Yes. |
| Political Prisoners: | | | | Yes. |
| Prisoners of War: | | | | Yes. |
| Jehovah’s Witnesses: | | | | Yes. |
| Homosexual Men/Lesbian Women: | | | | Yes. |
| Resisters: | | | | Yes. |
| Partisans: | | | | Yes. |
| Rescuers: | | | | Yes. |
| Refugees: | | | | Yes. |
| Liberators: | | | | Yes. |
| Prosecutors: | | | | Yes. |
| Perpetrators/ Collaborators: | | | | Yes. |
| Refugee Relief Workers: | | | | 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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