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| Name: | Fondation Auschwitz/ Auschwitz Stichting |
| Translated Name: | Auschwitz Foundation |
| Affiliation: | |
| ADDRESS: | Rue des Tanneurs, 65
Brussels 1000 |
| COUNTRY: | Belgium |
| TELEPHONE NUMBER: | +(32-2) 512-7998 |
| FAX: | +(32-2) 512-5884 |
| EMAIL: | info.fr@auschwitz.be |
| WEBSITE: | http://www.auschwitz.be |
| OPERATING HOURS: | Monday - Friday 9:00 a.m - 5:00 p.m. |
| CONTACT PERSON(S): | Baron Paul Halter, President
Primary Contact:
Mr. Yannis Thanassekos, Director
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| GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION: | The Auschwitz Foundation was created in 1980 by the Belgian Association of Ex-Political Prisoners of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Camps and Prisons of Silesia. It is a study and documentation center promoting analyses, publications and research on the complex historical processes which led to the creation of Nazi concentration camps and the genocide of Jews and Roma. The Auschwitz Foundation also works to integrate remembrance of Nazi crimes and genocides into contemporary historical consciousness. |
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| OVERVIEW OF ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION: | Victims who survived the Nazis' crimes and genocide are those interviewed for this oral history-project (which consists of interviews as well as audio and audiovisual dialogues). Testimonies cover the interviewees' entire life history as well as experiences in extermination, concentration, and transit camps, ghettos and Nazi prisons. The testimonies also contain interviews with political prisoners, resistance fighters, and partisans.
The process of audiovisual recording involves: A register's protocol, a biographical sheet, a map indicating the Nazi concentration and extermination camps where the interviewee was principally detained, and his or her personal documents are enclosed in the interview put into the archives. The audio interviews have so far been partially published in the foundation's quarterly.
The Auschwitz Foundation has developed a number of operational steps to improve its procedures for collecting testimonies. The witness is asked to fill out a long questionnaire on his personal background. This pre-interview serves as a detailed background of the facts and information of the witness' life.
After this, the Foundation's academic staff then gathers research material. The interview is carried out by two interviewers without a fixed agenda. The attempt is to try not to talk too much except when to stimulate more detail or in order to reactivate the story. There is only one objective in an interview -- to listen attentively to the interviewee's story. |
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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: | Yes. |
| Year of First Interview: | 1992 |
| Year of Last Interview: | 2005 |
| Interviews Per Year: | Average: 20 |
| Average Hours Per Interview: | 5 |
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| RECORDING METHOD | |
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| Audio: | Yes. |
| Number of Audio Hours: | +-129 |
| Total Number of Audio Interviews: | 54 |
| Number of Audio Reel-To-Reel Interviews: | Information Not Available. |
| Number of Audiocassette Interviews: | Information Not Available. |
| Number of Interviews in Other Audio Formats: | Information Not Available. |
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| Video: | Yes. |
| Number of Video Hours: | 1207 |
| Total Number of Video Interviews: | 224 |
| Number of 1/2-inch Betacam-SP Interviews: | 708 |
| Number of 3/4-inch U-matic Interviews: | None. |
| Number of 1/2-inch VHS interviews: | 300 |
| Number of Film interviews: | No. |
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| RULES: | |
| Access to Collection: | Restricted. Information Not Available. |
| Special Requirements for Access or Use: | Open to researchers or students; an authorization must be granted by the Auschwitz Foundation on the basis of a written request outlining themes and topics as well as academic objectives of research. |
| Notice Required to Pull Tapes or Reserve Facility: | Yes. |
| Access Fee: | No fee.. |
| Research Services: | Yes. |
| Research Fee: | $0.00 |
| Research Services Requirements: | Dependant on availability of research team. |
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| Permission Required for Use of Material in | |
| Publications: | Yes. |
| Classrooms: | Yes. |
| Public Lectures: | Yes. |
| Documentaries: | Yes. |
| How To Obtain permission: | Authorization must be granted by the Auschwitz Foundation. |
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| RESOURCES | |
| Format of Collection | |
| Video/Audio: | Betcam (VHS copies for consultation). |
| Transcripts: | None. |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
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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: | Yes. |
| Published: | No, but it is available. |
| Guide Cost: | Information Not Available. |
| Address to Obtain Guide: | At the Auschwitz Foundation. |
| Additional Information: | The guide presents a series of topics related to the survivor's testimony e.g., the survivor's identification, activities and daily life during the war/occupation,respective circumstances of arrest, description of the transport to Germany, first confrontation with the camps, daily life in camp(s) or prison(s), facts of the liberation, experiences of returning home, interviewee's opinion of his or her past in the concentration camp(s), reasons for testifying,…) In addition, place names and the names of persons given by the interviewee are mentioned. |
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| Transcripts | |
| Audio: | 13 |
| Video: | None. |
| Available for photocopying: | None. |
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| Summaries | |
| Summarized: | Yes. |
| Available for Photocopying: | Yes. |
| 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: | N/A |
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| Cataloging Information | |
| Collection Cataloged: | Yes. |
| Available on Computer: | Yes. |
| Other: | N/A |
| MARC Format: | N/A |
| MARC Format Type: | N/A |
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| Internet Resources | |
| Web Address: | www.auschwitz.be |
| Transcripts: | No. |
| Summaries: | No. |
| Catalog: | No. |
| Indices: | No. |
| Interview Clips: | No. |
| Other: | No. |
| Additional Information: | Information Not Available. |
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| Bibliographic Information | |
| Belong to: | Information Not Available. |
| OCLC: | N/A |
| RLIN: | N/A |
| Other: | N/A |
| Plan to Join: | Yes. |
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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: | video interviews |
| Total Female: | on video |
| Total Male: | on video |
| No Data: | Information Not Available. |
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Female |
Male |
Total |
Other Information |
| Jews: | 36 | 48 | 84 | Information Not Available. |
| Roma and/or Sinti: | | 1 | 1 | Information Not Available. |
| Political Prisoners: | 1 | 13 | 14 | Information Not Available. |
| Prisoners of War: | | 3 | 3 | Information Not Available. |
| Jehovah’s Witnesses: | | 1 | 1 | Information Not Available. |
| Homosexual Men/Lesbian Women: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Resisters: | 21 | 74 | 95 | Information Not Available. |
| Partisans: | 5 | 15 | 20 | Information Not Available. |
| Rescuers: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Refugees: | | | 1 | Information Not Available. |
| Liberators: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Prosecutors: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Perpetrators/ Collaborators: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Refugee Relief Workers: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Other: | | | 3 | Information Not Available. |
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| Additional Information: | Prisoner Japanese camps: 2 |
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| Focus of Collection: | |
| Ghetto(s) |  | Ghettos of Bedzin, Bochnia, Chrzanow, Cracow, Lodz, Mlawa, Varsow. |
| Camp(s) | | Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dora-Mittelbau, Esterwegen, Flossenburg, Gross-Rosen, Grosse-Strehlitz, Gusen, Mauthausen, Majdanek, Neuengamme, Ravensbrück, Sachsenhausen, Natzweiler-Struthof, Theresienstadt. |
| Geographic Area(s) | | All over Europe, but interviews conducted mainly in Belgium. |
| Experience(s) | | |
| Survivor Group(s) | | |
| Other | | Fortress of Breendonk; Caserne Dossin; Fortress of Huy; Prisons of St-Gilles, Leuven, Antwerp |
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| Additional Information: | |
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