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Florida Atlantic University serves as a site where users can access testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History Archive. 

This collection of nearly 52,000 testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses in 32 languages and from 56 countries is one of the largest video digital libraries in the world. The USC Shoah Foundation 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. 

This project is the product of a long-standing partnership between Florida Atlantic University and LEAH, the League for Educational Awareness of the Holocaust. The LEAH Fund has been established within the FAU Foundation and will serve as the exclusive underwriter for this project. The LEAH Fund will also underwrite future costs related to this project's expansion. If you would like to support this partnership click here to donate to the FAU LEAH Fund.

Please Note:

You must be at a computer terminal on an FAU campus in order to search and view the testimonies on the Visual History Archive (VHA). Remote access will not work.

Not all video testimonies are available immediately, but can be requested to be viewable within 48 hours. To check the status of a certain interview prior to visiting the Library, please call the Reference Desk at 561-297-3785, or e-mail LYREF@fau.edu. For additional information, see the Getting Started page.