Visual History Archives (VHA) USC Shoah Foundation
Your library card provides free access to the Visual History Archive (VHA) USC Shoah Foundation. This resource contains over 56,000 video testimonies and over 700,000 images of artifacts and photos of survivors and witnesses of genocide.
The Visual History Archive includes information testimonies related to the:
- Holocaust
- Armenian Genocide
- Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda of 1994
- Nanjing Massacre in China
- Guatemalan Genocide of 1978-1996
- Cambodian Genocide of 1975-1979
- War and Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Ongoing conflicts in the Central African Republic and South Sudan
- Ongoing Anti-Rohingya mass violence
Select the link below to login to the Visual History Archive database:
Additional Resources for Primary Sources
Digitized primary sources are often freely available online through libraries, museums, and government agencies. Search the internet using specific keywords for archives or primary sources.
For example:
- 1994 Rwanda genocide and archive
- Holocaust personal narrative primary source
Below is a selected list of websites to help you get started.
- Survivors and Victims DatabaseSearch through millions of names or people persecuted by the Nazi regime
- Yad Vashem The World Holocaust Remembrance CenterYad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, is the ultimate source for Holocaust education, documentation and research
- Holocaust Timeline | Holocaust EncyclopediaExplore a timeline of events that occurred before, during, and after the Holocaust
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | Collections SearchThe Museum’s Collections document the fate of Holocaust victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others through artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, personal stories, and more.
- The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive | United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumOne of the largest and most diverse collections of Holocaust testimonies in the world
- Objects and History Search | Imperial War MuseumMaps, photographs, private papers, and more related to war in the 20th Century to the present
- Auschwitz-Birkenau State MuseumPhotographs and other artifacts from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp site
- Oral History | Norbert Wollheim MemorialVideo interviews with survivors of the Buna/Monowitz concentration camp