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USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive via Internet2

The Institute’s Visual History Archive at the University of Southern California (USC) contains nearly 52,000 video testimonies collected in 32 languages and 56 countries. 105,000 hours of video occupy 135 terabytes of storage on servers at USC. The Institute interviewed Jewish survivors, homosexual survivors, Jehovah’s Witness survivors, liberators and liberation witnesses, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, Roma and Sinti survivors (Gypsy), survivors of Eugenics policies, and war crimes trials participants. Institutions connected to Internet2, or an equivalent network in the country in which they are located, may collaborate with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute to access the entire Visual History Archive. Students, educators, and researchers will be able to search more than 50,000 experiential and geographic indexing terms to find relevant video in the archive.