Digital Collections & Resources
Columbia Armenian Oral History Archive | Columbia University
The Columbia Armenian Oral History Archive is an important collection of audio and video recordings of first-person accounts of the early and recent experiences of Armenians, recorded after they had immigrated to the United States. The collection consists of 138 interviews in Armenian, English, and Turkish languages with immigrants conducted by Vazken L. Parsegian during the 1950s and 1960s, focusing largely on the survivors’ memories of their personal experiences of the abduction, deportation, imprisonment and massacre of Armenians and the destruction of Armenian communities under the Ottoman Empire in the first decades of the Twentieth century.
The Armenian Genocide: Documents from State and Private Archives
In our edition, “The Armenian Genocide 1915/16”, we published nearly all the documents published by Lepsius but here in their original wording. They are indicated as DuA-r (Deutschland und Armenien – revidiert; Germany and Armenia revised). Information can be found in a list of the parts of documents missing in the Lepsius edition, and a detailed study of all of the differences in the Lepsius publication can be found in this Internet version. In addition, we are publishing more than 500 new documents concerning the Armenian Genocide which have never been previously available.
1972 Burundi Genocide Oral Histories | Northeastern Illinois University
In December of 2023, Northeastern Illinois University students and faculty traveled to Burundi to conduct research for the Genocide and Human Rights Research of Africa in the Diaspora (GHRAD) Center. The main objective of this endeavor was to gather as many survivor testimonies as possible from those who endured the extremely stifled and shrouded 1972 Genocide of Burundi. Now, more than 50 years later, GHRAD is recording their stories allowing victims to finally shatter their silence. The testimonies collected by the GHRAD Center at NEIU are pivotal in creating a research compilation in the form of an Oral History Archive for the Library Digital Commons website.
Critical Editions Series | Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University
The Critical Editions Series contextualizes Fortunoff Video testimonies in their historical time and place. Each testimony in the series was chosen by one of our visiting scholars. Each scholar then produced an
introductory essay about the chosen testimony, along with an annotated transcript that provides additional insight and background information.
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)
EHRI offers access to several resources that keep on developing: a Portal with online access to information on Holocaust-related archival material held in institutions across Europe and beyond. And a Document Blog which is a space to share ideas about Holocaust-related archival documents, and their presentation and interpretation using digital tools.
Forced Labor 1939-1945: Memory and History
The interview archive “Forced Labor 1939-1945” commemorates the over twenty million people who were forced to work for Nazi Germany. Nearly 600 former forced laborers from 26 countries tell their life stories in detailed audio and video interviews. There are also transcripts, translations, photos and short biographies. The archive is accessible online after registration and is available in German, English and Russian.
Guatemalan National Police Historical Archive | University of Texas at Austin
A product of broad international collaboration, these digitized documents from the Guatemalan National Police Historical Archive (AHPN) aim to facilitate scholarly and legal research into a vast cache of historical documentation. The discovery of the National Police Historical Archive in 2005 opened an extensive and timely resource for the study of Guatemalan history and human rights in the region, spanning a broad array of topics from Guatemala’s armed conflict between 1960 and 1996 to the sexually transmitted disease experiments performed at the behest of the United States government in the 1940s. This site currently includes over 10 million scanned images of documents from the National Police Historical Archive. This digital archive mirrors and extends the physical archive that remains preserved in Guatemala as an important historical patrimony of the Guatemalan people.
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Digital Archive Project | University of Connecticut
The ICTY Digital Archive Project provides access to a range of documents and other records associated with the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. The result of an ongoing collaboration between Dodd Human Rights Impact, the UConn Libraries, the Connecticut Digital Archive, and individual scholars, witnesses, and others involved in the Tribunal, the ICTY Digital Archive Project seeks to make the work of the tribunal accessible to researchers, educators, students, and others. The project continues to work to identify, evaluate, process, and make available additional materials with the goal of advancing a better understanding of the work of the ICTY and the history of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.
#LastSeen Project | USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research
The #LastSeen Project focuses on searching for unknown pictures of Nazi deportations from the German Reich between 1938 and 1945. These photographs show the final moments in which deportees were forcibly removed from German society. aims to gather, analyze, and digitally publish pictures of Nazi mass deportations of Jews, Romani people and people with disabilities from the German Reich between 1938 and 1945. The project is a cooperation of the Arolsen Archives, the City Archives of Munich, the Center for the Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University Berlin, the House of the Wannsee Conference memorial site, and the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research.xxxxx
The Legacy Sites | Equal Justice Initiative
The Legacy Sites invite visitors to reckon with our history of racial injustice in places where that history was lived. Situated on lands occupied by Indigenous people for centuries, in a region that once held the largest population of enslaved Black people and would later become the heart of the Civil Rights movement, the Legacy Sites–the Legacy Museum, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park–offer visitors a powerful opportunity to engage with history and begin an era of truth telling. Relying on rarely seen first-person accounts of the domestic slave trade, the Legacy Sites explore the history of racial inequality and its relationship to a range of contemporary issues from mass incarceration to police violence.
National Museum of African American History & Culture
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. It was established by Act of Congress in 2003, following decades of efforts to promote and highlight the contributions of African Americans. To date, the Museum has collected more than 36,000 artifacts and nearly 100,000 individuals have become members. The Museum opened to the public on September 24, 2016, as the 19th and newest museum of the Smithsonian Institution located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
The Persecution
and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
The 16-volume series, The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by
Nazi Germany, 1933–1945 (PMJ), and its original German-language
sibling series, Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden
durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933–1945 (VEJ), is a
valuable free resource for researchers, teachers, and students of the
Holocaust. Through 5,500 historical documents all translated into English (PMJ)
from 21 languages, the series provides unique insights into the persecution and
murder of Jews in Europe from 1933 to 1945. PMJ covers the German Reich and the
whole of Nazi-dominated Europe. The sources, which come from over 400 different
archives and holdings, date exclusively from the period up to 1945; many are
being published for the first time. Each volume contains a substantial
introduction, written by renowned experts, that provides an overview of key
events and allows for a contextualization of the sources. All the documents are
thoroughly annotated with additional information and contain biographies of the
individuals who wrote or who feature in the texts.
Thomas J. Dodd Papers | University of Connecticut
The Thomas J. Dodd Papers illuminate the diverse public life of a self-styled crusader. The collection consists primarily of material from Dodd’s Senate years (1959-1971) and the Nuremberg war crimes trial before the International Military Tribunal from 1945-1946. Materials documenting his career prior to the Nuremberg Trials and the Senate are to be found only in the scrapbooks of clippings found in Series IX. There is almost no personal material in the collection.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America’s national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country’s memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust. The Museum’s primary mission is to advance and disseminate knowledge about this unprecedented tragedy; to preserve the memory of those who suffered; and to encourage its visitors to reflect upon the moral and spiritual questions raised by the events of the Holocaust as well as their own responsibilities as citizens of a democracy.
Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive | University of Michigan-Dearborn
A unique, widely accessible repository of Holocaust survivor oral histories with global impact that: connects listeners with the voices of survivors which builds understanding and tolerance; provides a free, online curriculum for teachers looking for resources to teach the Holocaust; and offers free, in-class presentations and workshops for middle and high school students. The archive began in 1981 when Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, started interviewing Holocaust survivors. Copies of all the interviews rest in the archives of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; copies of the videotapes are in the Yale Video Archives and the Holocaust Memorial Center in West Bloomfield, Michigan.