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Our mission
is to continue gathering the oral life histories of Holocaust survivors,
liberators, rescuers, and eyewitnesses. In addition, we want to
continue developing and maintaining the following areas in which
we specialize:
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Develop
and maintain a cataloged database of our interviews for use
in local schools and libraries, as well as on the Internet. |
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Provide
students, scholars, and the general public access to our archives
and distribute sets of videotaped oral histories to libraries,
schools and resource centers around the world. |
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Counteract
revisionism: The alarming upsurge of hate crimes and intolerance
make the need to record these stories all the more urgent. Oral
history videos are a powerful antidote for revisionism. |
We understand
that the stories of survivors have a meaning that reaches far beyond
that of Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. The accounts of these survivors
are about the relationship between discrimination, violence, genocide,
and war. Their testimonies break the silence, which is a consequence
of trauma and oppression. We feel that it´s our obligation
to preserve these stories, which retain a striking relevance to
the survival of the human race today.
See our Fact Sheet
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