USC Shoah Foundation
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USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education was founded in 1994, a nonprofit organization established to record testimonies in video format of survivors and other witnesses of the Shoah (Holocaust) of World War II. By giving voice to the witnesses of genocide and crimes against humanity, USC Shoah Foundation advances the use of audiovisual testimonies to catalyze learning, inform advocacy and transform lives around the globe.
The Visual History Archive is an online portal from USC Shoah Foundation that allows users to search through and view 55,000 audiovisual testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides that have been catalogued and indexed at the Institute. These testimonies were conducted in 65 countries and in 43 languages.
The Kazickas Family Foundation committed to help index 49 recorded testimonies in Lithuanian, to create most suitable programming for the region and to present the tools to the teachers community.
With the KFF funds USC Shoah Foundation has hired and trained three Lithuanian-speaking indexers who have begun to delve into the testimonies. The indexing process essentially makes key moments of each testimony -- which average about two hours in length -- searchable.
In addition to paying for the indexing process, the grant also covers two additional initiatives in Lithuania:
- Bringing the Institute’s Visual History Archive of 55,000 testimonies of genocide witnesses to Lithuania in May 2019 by providing access to Vilnius University.
- Bringing Lithuanian testimonies into the classrooms of Lithuanian teens by sponsoring the creation of Lithuanian content in IWitness, USC Shoah Foundation’s no-cost educational website.
More information on KFF and USC Shoah Foundation partnership: