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| Name: | Institut fuer Geschichte und Biographie der Fernuniversitaet Hagen |
| Translated Name: | Institute for History and Biography Distance University of Hagen |
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| ADDRESS: | Liebigstr. 11
Luedenscheid D-58511 |
| COUNTRY: | Germany |
| TELEPHONE NUMBER: | +49 (2351) 24580 |
| FAX: | +49 (2351) 39973 |
| EMAIL: | igb@fernuni-hagen.de |
| WEBSITE: | |
| OPERATING HOURS: | 9:00 a.m. -- 4:00 p.m. weekdays. Weekends by appointment. |
| CONTACT PERSON(S): | Primary Contact:
Dr. Alexander von Plato, Director
Phone: +49 (2351) 24580
Email: alexander.vonplato@fernuni-hagen.de
Primary Contact:
Dr. Almut Leh
Phone: +49 (2351) 24580
Email: almut.leh@fernuni-hagen.de
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| GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION: | The Institute for History and Biography Distance University of Hagen is a research institute mainly for oral history or other "subjective memory sources". |
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| OVERVIEW OF ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION: | There are approximately 2000 life story interviews in the archive. Half of them are concerned with the Nazi period, and about 800 with the Holocaust. |
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| Collect Holocaust Oral Histories: | Yes. |
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| Interview Guidelines: | Yes. |
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| Additional Information: | |
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| Project Complete: | |
| Year of First Interview: | 1983 |
| Year of Last Interview: | 2006 |
| Interviews Per Year: | |
| Average Hours Per Interview: | 4,5 |
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| Audio: | |
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| Number of Audio Reel-To-Reel Interviews: | |
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| Video: | |
| Number of Video Hours: | 1400. |
| Total Number of Video Interviews: | |
| Number of 1/2-inch Betacam-SP Interviews: | 300. |
| Number of 3/4-inch U-matic Interviews: | No. |
| Number of 1/2-inch VHS interviews: | 150. |
| Number of Film interviews: | No. |
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| RULES: | |
| Access to Collection: | Open. |
| Special Requirements for Access or Use: | Interviews can be used for scientific and media purposes according to restrictions placed by the interviewees. However, only parts of the interviews can be copied. Users must register what they have used and abide by the rules of anonymity set down by the Institute. |
| Notice Required to Pull Tapes or Reserve Facility: | |
| Access Fee: | No fee, only the costs of copying. |
| Research Services: | Not usually. |
| Research Fee: | The only fees that are incurred are for the costs of copying. |
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| Permission Required for Use of Material in | |
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| How To Obtain permission: | No special permission is necessary. Only anonymity of the interviewees is required if such was specified. |
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| RESOURCES | |
| Format of Collection | |
| Video/Audio: | |
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| Other: | |
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| On-Site Equipment | |
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| Users Can Bring Their Own: | |
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| Finding Aids | |
| Guide to Collection Available: | An electronic guide. |
| Published: | No. |
| Guide Cost: | |
| Address to Obtain Guide: | Institute for History and Biography Distance University of Hagen
Liebigstr. 11
Luedenscheid D-58511 Germany |
| Additional Information: | |
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| Transcripts | |
| Audio: | About 1200. |
| Video: | About 300. |
| Available for photocopying: | About 300. |
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| Summaries | |
| Summarized: | Yes. |
| Available for Photocopying: | |
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| Other: | |
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| Indices | |
| Tapes Indexed: | Yes. |
| Transcripts Indexed: | No, only one fifth of all interviews. |
| Summaries Indexed: | Yes, in an electronic databank. |
| Indices Available for Photocopying: | No. |
| Indices Available on Disk: | No. |
| Other: | |
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| Cataloging Information | |
| Collection Cataloged: | Yes, in an electronic format. |
| Available on Computer: | Yes. Excel and Access. |
| Other: | No. |
| MARC Format: | N/A |
| MARC Format Type: | N/A |
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| Internet Resources | |
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| Other: | Collection not available on the World Wide Web. |
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| 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. |
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| DETAIL ABOUT COLLECTION CONTENT | |
| Demographic Information about Interviewees: | |
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| Total Number: | |
| Total Female: | |
| Total Male: | |
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Other Information |
| Jews: | | | 251 | |
| Roma and/or Sinti: | | | 28 | |
| Political Prisoners: | | | 180 | mostly female former prisoners of Ravensbrueck |
| Prisoners of War: | | | 80 | |
| Jehovah’s Witnesses: | | | 14 | |
| Homosexual Men/Lesbian Women: | | | | |
| Resisters: | | | | |
| Partisans: | | | | |
| Rescuers: | | | | |
| Refugees: | | | | |
| Liberators: | | | | |
| Prosecutors: | | | | |
| Perpetrators/ Collaborators: | | | | |
| Refugee Relief Workers: | | | | |
| Other: | | | 600 | Slave and forced laborers |
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| Additional Information: | Of the 600 interviews with former slave and forced laborers, about 200 are with former Jewish forced laborers and about 180 interviews are on videotape. There are also two interviews with sterilized persons. |
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| Focus of Collection: | |
| Ghetto(s) |  | No, except in single interviews. |
| Camp(s) | | No, except for Ravensbrück and Mauthausen. |
| Geographic Area(s) | | Forced Laborer Project is in 28 countries; other projects have interviews from Germany and Easter Europe |
| Experience(s) | | |
| Survivor Group(s) | | Former prisoners of Ravensbrück (together with Loretta Walz) |
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