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Malach Center for Visual History

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2015

Abstract

Malach Center for Visual History (Malach CVH) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague provides local access to the extensive digital archives of the USC Shoah Foundation – the Institute for Visual history and Education, the Refugee Voices archive of the Association of Jewish Refugees, and other archives of oral histories. The Visual History Archive of USC Shoah Foundation contains over 53 000 witness testimonies covering the history of entire 20th century.

The Refugee Voices archive complements this collection with additional 150 interviews, conducted in English language by Association of Jewish Refugees in United Kingdom. Generally speaking, oral history interviews are valuable information resource for students and researchers in many disciplines.

Secondary analysis of the testimonies is also applicable to many different scientific fields besides historiography and genocide studies. This paper provides a brief overview and description of available data, and it pr