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| Name: | Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project |
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| ADDRESS: | P.O. Box 25506
San Mateo, CA 94402-5506 |
| COUNTRY: | United States |
| TELEPHONE NUMBER: | + (1-650) 570-6382 |
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| EMAIL: | info@bahohp.org |
| WEBSITE: | http://www.bahohp.org |
| OPERATING HOURS: | Monday - Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Friday closed. |
| CONTACT PERSON(S): | Primary Contact:
Ms. Anne Grenn Saldinger, Executive Director
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| GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION: | The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project (BAHOHP) is one of the oldest independent non-profit organizations of its kind in the country. Since 1981, they have collected, preserved, and put to use life history interviews of survivors and witnesses to the Holocaust. |
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| OVERVIEW OF ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION: | To date, the BAHOHP archive consists of more than 1,600 audio and video interviews with survivors, emigres, liberators, rescuers, resisters, and many others. Documents, transcriptions, and informational materials such as photographs and letters accompany these interviews. While the majority of the more than 5,000 hours of recorded history are in English, some are also in Russian (90), Polish (18), German (7), French (4), Yiddish (3), and Hebrew (3).
A collection of user copies of tapes and transcripts is available for public use and dissemination. Clinets include individuals in need of primary sources for research as well as educational and genealogical purposes. Since BAHOHP formed an alliance with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) several years ago, tapes are duplicated and sent to Washington DC to be incorporated into USHMM's collection. |
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| Collect Holocaust Oral Histories: | No. |
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| Interview Guidelines: | Yes. |
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| Additional Information: | Interviewees can be anyone persecuted by or witness to the Nazi regime, during the time period 1938 -- 1945. They are found through active community outreach with senior groups, survivors groups, synagogues, family service agencies, word of mouth.
All three interviewers are mental health professionals with backgrounds in oral history and Holocaust history. One interviewere is also a survivor. Training for interviewers was offered previously, but is not available at the present time. |
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| Project Complete: | No -- ongoing. |
| Year of First Interview: | 1981 |
| Year of Last Interview: | Ongoing. |
| Interviews Per Year: | About 35- 40 |
| Average Hours Per Interview: | three -- six |
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| RECORDING METHOD | |
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| Audio: | Yes. |
| Number of Audio Hours: | Information Not Available. |
| Total Number of Audio Interviews: | 399 |
| Number of Audio Reel-To-Reel Interviews: | No. |
| Number of Audiocassette Interviews: | Yes. |
| Number of Interviews in Other Audio Formats: | N/A |
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| Video: | Yes. |
| Number of Video Hours: | Information Not Available. |
| Total Number of Video Interviews: | 1774 |
| Number of 1/2-inch Betacam-SP Interviews: | 10 |
| Number of 3/4-inch U-matic Interviews: | Yes. |
| Number of 1/2-inch VHS interviews: | 1774 interviewees. Please note: All video interviews in the accessible archive are on VHS. |
| Number of Film interviews: | Information Not Available. |
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| RULES: | |
| Access to Collection: | Open. access is for videotapes only; as of June 2005 audiotapes are restricted. |
| Special Requirements for Access or Use: | Yes. Users must read and agree to BAHOHP guidelines for use. Guidelines must be signed and are kept on record. |
| Notice Required to Pull Tapes or Reserve Facility: | Yes. Individuals must contact the office to arrange appointment. |
| Access Fee: | Depends on individual needs/use. |
| Research Services: | Yes. |
| Research Fee: | Information Not Available. |
| Research Services Requirements: | Limited service for a fee and dependent on office staff availability. |
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| Permission Required for Use of Material in | |
| Publications: | Yes. |
| Classrooms: | Yes. |
| Public Lectures: | Yes. |
| Documentaries: | Information Not Available. |
| How To Obtain permission: | Information Not Available. |
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| RESOURCES | |
| Format of Collection | |
| Video/Audio: | Information Not Available. |
| Transcripts: | Information Not Available. |
| Other: | Summaries. |
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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: | There is a database currently for office use only. |
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| Transcripts | |
| Audio: | 260 |
| Video: | 304 |
| Available for photocopying: | 304 |
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| Summaries | |
| Summarized: | No. |
| Available for Photocopying: | N/A |
| Available on Disk: | N/A |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
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| Indices | |
| Tapes Indexed: | No. |
| Transcripts Indexed: | No. |
| Summaries Indexed: | No. |
| Indices Available for Photocopying: | No. |
| Indices Available on Disk: | No. |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
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| Cataloging Information | |
| Collection Cataloged: | Information Not Available. |
| Available on Computer: | Database includes indexing and summary information. |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
| MARC Format: | No. |
| MARC Format Type: | N/A |
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| Internet Resources | |
| Web Address: | Information Not Available. |
| Transcripts: | Information Not Available. |
| Summaries: | Information Not Available. |
| Catalog: | Information Not Available. |
| Indices: | Information Not Available. |
| Interview Clips: | Information Not Available. |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
| Additional Information: | Information Not Available. |
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| Bibliographic Information | |
| Belong to: | No. |
| OCLC: | N/A |
| RLIN: | N/A |
| Other: | N/A |
| Plan to Join: | No. |
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| Loan or Purchase | |
| Material Available Through Interlibrary Loan: | No. |
| Loan by other collection: | No. |
| Loan Fee: | Information Not Available. |
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| DETAIL ABOUT COLLECTION CONTENT | |
| Demographic Information about Interviewees: | |
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| Total Number: | |
| Total Female: | Information Not Available. |
| Total Male: | 813 |
| No Data: | 7 |
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Other Information |
| Jews: | | | | Yes. |
| Roma and/or Sinti: | | | | No. |
| Political Prisoners: | | | | No. |
| Prisoners of War: | | | | No. |
| Jehovah’s Witnesses: | | | | No. |
| Homosexual Men/Lesbian Women: | | | | Yes. |
| Resisters: | | | | Yes. |
| Partisans: | | | | Yes. |
| Rescuers: | | | | Yes. |
| Refugees: | | | | Yes. |
| Liberators: | | | 32 | Yes. Almost all liberators are U.S. citizens -- possibly a few Russians. |
| Prosecutors: | | | | No. |
| Perpetrators/ Collaborators: | | | | No. |
| Refugee Relief Workers: | | | | No. |
| Other: | | | | Gentiles who helped Jews and/or were persecuted themselves by the Nazis |
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| Additional Information: | Specific data not available. One gay man is in the collection, many resisters, and possibly some political prisoners as well. |
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| Focus of Collection: | |
| Ghetto(s) | | |
| Camp(s) | | |
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| Survivor Group(s) | | |
| Other | | |
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| Additional Information: | Particular experiences covered by the collection include: Ghetto, Labor Camps, Extermination camps, Transit camps, Hiding/Passing, Kindertransport, Emigre (left before 1939), Escape, Liberation, Partisan, Rescuer, Righteous Gentile, Shanghai, Underground, Witness. |
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