The Twentieth Century in 52 000 autobiographical Narratives at CU ****************************************************************************************** * The Twentieth Century in 52 000 autobiographical Narratives is available at CU ****************************************************************************************** Malach Centre for Visual History is located at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of C in Prague. The Centre provides local access to vast Visual History Archive of interviews w witnesses and survivors. The archive is administered by the Shoah Foundation at the Univer California [ URL "http://sfi.usc.edu"] and fully accessible through an on-line interface. interviews have been conducted between 1994 and 2000 in 56 countries and 32 languages. Fro CVH also makes it possible to access the Refugee Voices [ URL "http://www.refugeevoices.co which consists of 150 filmed interviews in English collected after 2003 by the British Ass Jewish Refugees. Interviewees speak about their childhood, the time before World War II, their war-related and also life after the war. The archives are thus a valuable collection of numerous indiv of the entire 20th century in a global context. However, the narratives offer much more th historical information. The USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive has already been in many different scientific fields including psychology, linguistics, sociology, anthropo Oral history archives are providing an interdisciplinary resource based on historical expe unique material is being used in new development of testimony-collecting methodology, in t field of memory studies, high school education of ‘visual history’ and new media literacie research into personal trauma, etc. Visual History Archive: to capture the vanishing Memories When the collection of the USC Shoah Foundation was initiated, the Institute’s intent was personal life histories of the survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust. To preserve their perpetuity, and use the testimonies to further educate people about the Holocaust. Once th completed the collection phase, and cataloguing and indexing commenced, it became apparent and far-reaching the opportunities for education, research, and scholarship really were. H visual archive of this size and complexity had not existed before; so there was no obvious follow. The origins of the project date back almost twenty years. In 1994, Survivors of Shoah Visu Foundation was established by Steven Spielberg to collect and preserve the testimonies of other witnesses of the Holocaust. The foundation conducted interviews with Jewish survivor survivors, liberators, survivors of the eugenics policies, political prisoners, aid provid survivors, war crimes trials participants, etc. After collecting nearly 52 000 testimonies in 32 languages, the Shoah Foundation was reorg its efforts toward a new educational mission: to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigo suffering they cause – through the educational use of the Foundation’s visual history test then, the focus shifted to active dissemination of testimonies in the Archive for educatio creating educational products and programs directed to middle and high school-age students higher education. Providing digital access to the testimonies by partnering with education and institutions worldwide has become a priority.             By using the Visual History Archive on-line interface, the users can use very tools to search through the 105 000 hours of audiovisual material. Most of the testimonies have been catalogued, indexed and digitized. It is possible to search for people’s names, information, places or topical indexing terms, and identify whole testimonies of relevance segments within the interviews. Half of the testimonies (e.g. 25 000 life-story interviews conducted in English. It is also possible to study interviews in French (1 881 testimonies testimonies), Russian (7 084 testimonies), Hebrew (6 301 testimonies) Spanish (1 354 testi (434 testimonies) and 25 other languages.             The USC Shoah Foundation Institute has several ways to integrate new material. collection projects, where new material is being collected in the field. It also has the a existing collections. These could include Holocaust collections held by other institutions require digitization, digital preservation, cataloguing, or indexing – or they could also from other geographical regions, such as Armenia, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Darfur, where othe collections that require management and dissemination. The Institute can also work with th provide technical, methodological, or process support. In the near future, opportunities f genocide research using the Visual History Archive will increase, as the included collecti additional testimonies from a number of different genocides. The Institute will endeavor t interested colleagues, to understand better what collections might be incorporated and wha interest are most appropriate to scholars and teaching faculty in this field. Refugee Voices: Narratives of Transforming Identities Refugee Voices is a collection of 150 filmed interviews with Jewish survivors and refugees who rebuilt their lives in Great Britain. It was commissioned by the Association of Jewish Dr Anthony Grenville and Dr Bea Lewkowicz directing the project. The collection consists o 450 hours of film and forms an invaluable resource for academics, researchers, educational with a professional interest in the field of refugee, migration and Holocaust studies. The been designed precisely with the requirements of scholars and other professionals in mind. archive is available at the Malach Centre from February 2013. All interviews have been fully transcribed and catalogued enabling a researcher to be able interview and then to read a transcript of the words spoken in it, or vice versa. For ease both the films and the transcripts are time-coded, making it possible to locate specific p minimum effort. Accompanying the collection is a comprehensive database, containing an index of the interv of the interviewees and their life stories. The interviews have been catalogued with 44 se including place of birth, parents' details, manner of emigration, prisons/camps and profes provides a wealth of information to researchers, who can easily locate information relevan of specific areas of interest, such as Kindertransport, domestic servants and internment o as well as interviewees from specific places such as Berlin and Vienna. Each interview is still shots of photos of family members and friends, places of importance for the intervie items or documents of special significance in the interviewee's life. These filmed photogr and documents provide a rich source of images for educational or documentary purposes. In addition to exploring the contribution to Britain made by the refugees, the interviews wide range of experiences of survivors including, amongst others, an interview with a surv to safety from Denmark to Sweden, an interview with a woman who was 'exchanged' from Berge Switzerland and an interview with the last person alive today who was present at the signi Declaration of Independence. The archive also features interviews with survivors who have about their experiences. HOW TO ACCESS THE ARCHIVES Both Visual History Archive (with the 52 000 autobiographical interviews in many languages Voices (with 150 English narrative interviews) are available at the Malach CVH. Six separa work-stations are ready in the Library of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charle on Malostranské náměstí 25, Praha 1 (Lesser Town Square, Prague 1). Anyone interested from well as the general public are welcome, you just have to register and create your user acc interface is easy to work with, but still sophisticated enough for the research purposes. assist you during the research work. Visit the Malach CVH during our opening hours (every Monday), contact us via e-mail or find more information on our website [ URL "http://ufal. index-eng.html"] .