The New York-based Yeshiva University announced Monday that it has acquired the unabridged version of the Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, a collection of audiovisual interviews comprising 54,000 eyewitness testimonies of witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust and genocides in Nanjing, Rwanda, Armenia, Guatemala, and Cambodia.
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The archive was established by Steven Spielberg in 1994 to videotape and preserve interviews with survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust.
Yeshiva becomes one of a handful of universities in the New York metro area with access to the Shoah archive.
Available to Yeshiva students and faculty, the Shoah archive adds a new dimension to all elements of Holocaust study.
The archive will allow people to learn about the history of the Holocaust on the local level – to the Jews of a given town, community, family all the way to a single Holocaust survivor.
