The Visual History Archive contains almost 52,000 videotaped interviews of Jewish Holocaust survivors, rescuers, and witnesses gathered by the Shoah Foundation between 1994 and 2005. The Archive also includes testimonies from survivors and witnesses of the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide, the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, and the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
Note: Each user is required to create a username and password during the first sign in. Some videos are stored locally and can be viewed immediately; others stored at USC can be ordered and usually arrive (with email notification) for viewing within a few hours
Access: On Campus only. Available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. No off campus access. Language: Over 30 languages are represented. Primarily English and Hebrew.
Over 100,000 images from the renowned collection of the Wiener Library in London, the world's oldest Holocaust memorial institution. Included are eyewitness accounts of anti-semitic and Nazi activity in Germany and Austria; photographs of Jewish life before, during, and after World War II; anti-Semitic propaganda material; Holocaust-related historical publications; and biographical details of major figures in the Nazi Party and SS hierarchies.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. Coverage: 1889-1965
Consists of historical documents from the British National Archives that offer perspectives on politics, diplomacy and every day life in the German-occupied countries.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. Coverage: 1940-1945
Collection of primary sources for the study and understanding of the challenges facing the European people in the aftermath of World War II.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. Coverage: 1945-1950
Provides documentation of the investigation and prosecution of war crimes by Nazi concentration camp commandants and other personnel. Documents include correspondence, trial records and transcripts, interrogation reports, trial exhibits, photographs of atrocities, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Based on original manuscript collections from the holdings of the American Jewish Historical Society in New York. Covers a wide range of dates and topics related to Jewish history in the US, from Early Jewish Settlements in the US through the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-20th Century.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
LeMO (Living Museum Online) documents German history from the founding of the German Empire in the 19th Century to the present. The offering combines informative text with museum objects, films and sound recordings and provides a comprehensive picture of history. German language only.
On the 16th of November 2010 the project called EHRI, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, was launched in Brussels. This project is financed by the European Union and will take four years to complete. EHRI's main objective is to support the Holocaust research community by opening up a portal that will give online access to dispersed sources relating to the Holocaust, and by encouraging collaborative research through the development of tools. To achieve this by 2014 twenty organizations - research institutions, libraries, archives, museums and memorial sites - from thirteen countries will work together in a consortium.
The Fortunoff Archive records, collects, and preserves Holocaust witness testimonies, and to make its collection available to researchers, educators, and the general public.
The Fortunoff Archive currently holds more than 4,400 testimonies, which are comprised of over 10,000 recorded hours of videotape. Testimonies were produced in cooperation with 37 affiliated projects across North America, South America, Europe, and Israel, and each project maintains a duplicate collection of locally recorded videotapes.
German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) is a comprehensive collection of primary source materials documenting Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present. It comprises original German texts, all of which are accompanied by new English translations, and a wide range of visual imagery.
The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) was established in 1993 as a nonprofit 501(c)(3), nonpartisan organization to strengthen the U.S.-Israel relationship by emphasizing the fundamentals of the alliance — the values our nations share.
The National Center for Jewish Film is a unique, independent nonprofit archive, distributor, resource center and exhibitor, NCJF's ongoing mission is the collection, preservation and exhibition of films with artistic and educational value relevant to the Jewish experience.
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.
The photographs in People of a Thousand Towns constitute a visual record of thousands of pre-World War II Jewish communities in Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Romania, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. They span the late 19th century to the early 1940s and in some cases, the pictures in the YIVO Archives are the only known photographic traces of communities later eliminated by the Nazis.