Sociology of oral history: USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive in the Malach Center for Visual History at the Charles Univesity

Abstract

This paper (in Czech) describes the basic sociological approaches to oral history data; introduces the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Arhcive, a vast archive of digital oral history (http://vhaonline.usc.edu); and illustrates the sociological utilization of such archival data by two case studies (post-war approaches toward Germans, and name changes, as narrated by Holocaust survivors in their testimonies).

Keywords

• oral history
• sociology
• Holocaust