LibGuides: Primary Sources: The Holocaust: Oral Histories

Living Testimony From The Holocaust

Living Testimony From The Holocaust

Online Sources: Oral History

70 Voices: Victims, Perpetrators and Bystanders
Alfred Steer: War Crimes Trials Participant (USC Shoah Foundation) War Crimes Trials Participant: Responsibility and Justice
American Jewish Committee Oral History Collection (NYPL)
Austrian Heritage Collection interviews
Center for Jewish History Digital Collections
Charlotte Jewish Historical Society
Death Camp Treblinka: Survivor Stories
DigiBaeck - Leo Baeck Institute Archives
Digital Maryland - Holocaust Oral Histories
Fire in My Heart: The Story of Hannah Senesh Among Israel’s most important heroes is Hannah Senesh, who died by firing squad in 1944 at age 23. This first-ever exhibition, Fire in My Heart: The Story of Hannah Senesh, tells how this Budapest-born poet, diarist, and author of the hymm Eli, Eli discovered her love for the Land of Israel, volunteered for a mission to rescue downed Allied fliers and Jews from Nazi-occupied Hungary, and became an enduring symbol of courage and determination.
First Person Podcast Series: Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies (Yale)
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies (YALE University) The Fortunoff Archive currently holds more than 4,400 testimonies comprising 12,000 recorded hours of videotape.
Gathering the Voices
Holocaust Lecture Series Archive (Sonoma State University)
Holocaust Stories Higher Education Channel Television
Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project (USF)
Interview with Rabbi Manfred Swarsensky, Madison, Wisconsin
IWitness USC Shoah Foundation
Jehovah's Witnesses - U.S. Holocaust Museum
Jewish Heritage Collection Oral Histories College of Charleston
Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
Jewish survivors of the Holocaust (British Library)
Jewish survivors of the Holocaust (British Library - Sounds)
KINDERTRANSPORT, 1938–40: ORAL HISTORIES
Kristallnacht: How Did Religious Leaders in the US Respond?
National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism
Northeastern University Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Committee Records
Oral Histories: Wisconsin Survivors of the Holocaust (Oswego State University of New York) Six million European Jews were systematically murdered by the Nazis and their allies during the 1930s and 1940s. This persecution of Jews is known as the Holocaust. As Nazi tyranny spread, millions of other people were also killed by the Third Reich. About 140,000 Holocaust survivors came to the U.S. More than 1,000 eventually settled in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Historical Society archivists interviewed 22 Holocaust survivors and two American witnesses between 1974 and 1981. These oral histories are now available digitally and in their entirety for the first time, uncensored and unfiltered.
The Oral History Collection of the Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration
REFUGEE VOICES The Testimony Archive of the Association of Jewish Refugees
Surviving the Holocaust - An Interview with Anita Epstein
Survivor Videos
The Tauber Holocaust Library Oral History Archive
United States Holocaust Museum Encyclopedia
Virginia Holocaust Museum - Oral Collection "The Virginia Holocaust Museum began recording oral histories in 1997 to preserve the firsthand accounts of people who had witnessed genocide. While the Museum’s oral history collection originally focused on Holocaust survivors and liberators, it has recently expanded to include other instances of genocide. Today, the Oral History Archive contains over 230 digitized testimonies. Housed in the Carole Weinstein Holocaust Research Library, the oral history collection provides the personal stories of people who settled in the Commonwealth of Virginia and experienced a mass atrocity"
Virginia Holocaust Museum - Oral Histories
Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
Voices of the Holocaust (British Library)
Voices of the Holocaust (Illinois Tech) A portal for the exploration of digitized, restored, transcribed, and translated interviews with Holocaust survivors conducted by Dr. David P. Boder in 1946. Hosted by the Galvin Library at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Book Sources: Oral History

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Jewish Memories by Lucette Valensi; Nathan Wachtel; Barbara Harshav (Translator)
Call Number: View Online
ISBN: 9780520066373
Publication Date: 1991-01-30
The journey back from hell : an oral history : conversations with concentration camp survivors by Artor Gill
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D805.A2 G49 1990
ISBN: 0688088473
Publication Date: 1989-04-01
Oral Histories of Children Who Survived the Holocaust by Brana Gurewitsch; Center for Holocaust Studies Staff
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D804.3 .O73 1986
ISBN: 0960997040
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
The secret Holocaust diaries : the untold story of Nonna Bannister by Nonna Bannister (Original Author); Denise George (As told to); Carolyn Tomlin (As told to)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DK508.835.B36 A3 2009
ISBN: 9781414325460
Publication Date: 2009-04-01
Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust by Claude Lanzmann
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D810.J4 L275513 1985
ISBN: 156730317X
The Complete Text of the Film
Sobibór, martyrdom and revolt : documents and testimonies by Miriam Novitch (Editor); León Poliakov (Preface by)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D810.J4 S597
ISBN: 9780896040168
Publication Date: 1980-09-01
Sources of the Holocaust by Steve Hochstadt
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D804.19 .S68 2004
ISBN: 0333963458
Publication Date: 2004-04-01
Voices from the Holocaust by Sylvia Rothchild; Elie Wiesel (Foreword by)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection D810.J4 V63
ISBN: 0453003966
Publication Date: 1981-04-21
What we knew : terror, mass murder and everyday life in Nazi Germany : an oral history by Eric Johnson; Karl-Heinz Reuband
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DD256.5 .J64 2005b
ISBN: 9780465085712
Publication Date: 2005-02-01
Witness : voices from the Holocaust by Joshua M. Greene; Shiva Kumar; Lawrence L. Langer (Foreword by)
Call Number: D804.195 .W58 2000
ISBN: 9780684865256
Publication Date: 2000-04-16