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The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, formerly Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, is a nonprofit organization established by Steven Spielberg in 1994, one year after completing his oscar winning film ''Schindler's List''. The original aim of the Foundation was to record testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust (which in Hebrew is called the ''Shoah'') as a collection of videotaped interviews. The Foundation conducted nearly 52,000 interviews between 1994 and 1999. Interviewees included Jewish survivors, homosexual survivors, Jehovah's Witness survivors, liberators and liberation witnesses, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, Roma and Sinti (Gypsy) survivors, survivors of Eugenics policies, and war crimes trials participants. In January 2006, the Foundation partnered with and relocated to the University of Southern California and was renamed the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education. The testimonies will be preserved in the Visual History Archive,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://sfi.usc.edu/what_is_the_vha )〕 one of the largest digital collections of its kind in the world. Currently encompassing 107,000 hours of video testimony, the Visual History Archive is an invaluable resource for humanity, with nearly every testimony containing a complete personal history of life before, during and after the interviewee’s firsthand experience with genocide. The Visual History Archive is digitized, fully searchable and hyperlinked to the minute. This indexing allows students, professors, researchers and others around the world to retrieve entire testimonies or search for specific sections within testimonies through a set of more than 62,000 keywords and key phrases, 1.3 million names, and 628,000 images. The Institute has access to other primary resources in addition to the audio-visual testimonies. A Holocaust and Genocide Studies collection recently acquired by USC’s Doheny Library contains more than 1,000 original Nazi books and pamphlets, Jewish publications, microfilms with original documents such as Nazi newspapers and a nearly complete series of original transcripts of the International Nuremberg trials. Also included in the Doheny collection: early Holocaust historiography; early post-war publications of diaries and testimonies in various languages; and original papers of German and Austrian refugees from the Third Reich, including those of the famous German-Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://dornsife.usc.edu/2020-resistance-holocaust-collection )〕 Meanwhile, the Institute's Visual History Archive is expanding its collection to include testimony from survivors and witnesses of other genocides, including the Rwandan Genocide and the Nanjing Massacre. Sixty-four Rwandan testimonies were added in the spring of 2013, and 12 testimonies from survivors of the Nanjing Massacre were added in the spring of 2014. The Institute indexed nearly 400 testimonies from the Armenian Genocide, which were then integrated into the Visual History Archive by the event’s April 24, 2015 centennial and to commemorate the 20th century’s first genocide. == Research == The Institute aspires to be the world’s academic authority on the study of genocide and personal testimony.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://sfi.usc.edu/research )〕 It continues to incorporate new collections of genocide eyewitness testimonies while simultaneously fostering scholarly activities that confront real-world problems the testimonies address. Scholars in many fields have utilized the vast resources of the Visual History Archive to teach more than 400 university courses across four continents, including 112 courses at USC. Researchers and thought leaders have utilized the testimonies in more than 121 scholarly works and the archive has been central to dozens of conferences across a range of disciplines. In April 2014, the Institute announced the Center for Advanced Genocide Research, which will serve as the research and scholarship unit of the Institute. The Center will bring scholars from around the world to study how and why instances of mass violence occur, and how to intervene in the cycle that can lead to them. Each year, the Institute invites a renowned international thought leader to serve as Scholar-in-Residence. The Center will award up to 10 fellows every year. Institute fellows, staff and student interns participate in more than a dozen academic events on the USC campus annually. The Institute, in conjunction with the Center for Advanced Genocide Research, will host an international conference in November 2014 at USC titled “Memory, Media and Technology: Exploring the Trajectories of Schindler’s List,” examining the trajectories of memory, media and technology throughout a range of disciplines and from a variety of vantage points and venues.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://sfi.usc.edu/research/conferences/2014_international )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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