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Updated Version of the Visual History Archive
Since April 18th, version 6.5 includes the indexed testimonies of 65 survivors and rescuers of the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide.
News date: 04/18/2013
IV. Summer School der Multimedialen Archive 29.7.-4.8.12 in Berlin
„Forgotten Voices? Remembrance of national-socialist persecution of Sinti & Roma in digital Oral-History-Archives and in the topographical memory of Berlin“
News date: 03/26/2012
Freie Universität Berlin Partners with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Cooperation Enables Aristotle University of Thessaloniki to Access the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive
News date: 10/03/2011
New Visual History Archive interface
1st of september 2009 a new archive interface with multiple new functionalities has been released.
News date: 08/18/2009
Witnesses of the Shoah: more than 50,000 Holocaust eyewitness testimonies available for education in schools
Freie Universtät Berlin introduces first German version of digital video archive
News date: 05/12/2009
Invitation to press conference - "„Witnesses of the Shoah“: Advancing Holocaust knowledge in schools
Presentation of project with more than 50,000 video testimonies on May 12th, 2009
News date: 05/04/2009
Workshop: "Looking at History"
13. -15.05.2009: International Workshop at Freie Universitaet Berlin
News date: 04/28/2009
International alumni workshop in august 2009
Introduction to the academic work with the video testimonies of the Visual History Archive
News date: 03/25/2009
SFI videographs in academic teaching and research
Best practices and an exchange of ideas on 22.04.2009
News date: 03/11/2009
Access to the Visual History Archive at the Technische Universität Berlin
Kick-off opening event on 10.02.2009 at 6pm
News date: 01/28/2009
Seminar "Testimonies" in the framework of the series "Discovering and Understanding. Educational Work with Testimonies of Victims of National Socialism."
VHA Workshop from 30.-31.01.
News date: 01/28/2009
600 former forced laborers from 26 countries remember the past
New online archive "Forced Labor 1939-1945" opened in Berlin
News date: 01/23/2009
Invitation to the Press Conference: Presentation of the Online Portal "Forced Labor 1939–1945"
Interview Archive with 600 former forced laborers will be accessible online as of January 2009
News date: 01/19/2009
VHA@TU Berlin
The Visual History Archive at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism
News date: 12/15/2008
The Visual History Archive at the ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN
Presentation on Friday, Dec. 5th, at 10am
News date: 12/02/2008
Courses currently using the VHA
In the winter semester 2008/2009, the Visual History Archive is being used in 15 courses and seminars
News date: 10/29/2008
Teacher-training courses on offer
On 13.11.08 a teacher-training course on the use and implementation of the Visual History Archive in school education will take place at the Freie Universität.
News date: 10/29/2008
AG Jüdische Sammlungen visit
Presentation of the VHA and afterwards a reception in the Clubhaus of the FU on Thursday, 18.09.2008
News date: 09/10/2008
Symposium on "Oral History“
Participation of the VHA at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe Foundation event.
News date: 09/01/2008
New third-party funding project
The Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie foundation is funding the use of VHA interviews in school education and the classroom.
News date: 08/28/2008
Date - Introductory workshop
The introductory workshop in May will take place on 08.05.2008
News date: 04/21/2008
History und Oral History - Jewish Life in Berlin
News date: 03/04/2008
The Visual History Archive at the ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN
Lecture about the Archive and its usage possibilities in education and reseach
News date: 11/12/2007
Memories of Forced Labour
New project to preserve the life stories of the victims of National Socialist forced labor
News date: 10/12/2007
Pupils use the Visual History Archive
Two Berlin school classes worked with interviews of the Archive at the FU
News date: 10/11/2007
Online Survey
Evaluation of the user friendliness of the Visual History Archive
News date: 09/17/2007
08-30 to 09-01: Conference - Forced Labor and National Socialism
Presentation of the Visual History Archive in a workgroup and at the "Market of Possibilities"
News date: 08/09/2007
Cooperative work with the Topography of Terror
Project on the evaluation of the Visual History Archive’s usability
News date: 07/06/2007
Visual History Archive in Australia
Since mid-May Monash University is also providing full access to the VHA
News date: 05/31/2007
The University Library acquires database on the NS era
Since a few weeks the UB has a new database at its disposal: National Socialism, Holocaust, Resistance and Exile 1933 - 1945.
News date: 05/21/2007
The Visual History Archive at the Long Night of Science
Joint Program by CeDiS and the University Library
News date: 05/15/2007
Exclusive Presentation of the Visual History Archive
A presentation for members and friends of the Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit (Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation) will take place on June 19th, 2007.
News date: 05/15/2007
Corrie ten Boom Fellowship Program
The Shoah Foundation Institute announces the availability of his fellowship program
News date: 02/27/2007
Presentation for Guests of the German-Israeli Society
Over 60 guests came to the Freie Universität Berlin at the invitation of the Berlin Working Group of the German-Israeli Society.
News date: 01/24/2007
The decision is made: Access to the Visual History Archive has been broadened
External scientific institutions and researchers can now also access the Archive.
News date: 12/18/2006
Extensive media coverage
Press reports on the Visual History Archive at the Freie Universität Berlin
News date: 12/17/2006
Workshops with Karen Jungblut
Workshops with Ms. Karen Jungblut of the Shoah Foundation Institute will take place on Tuesday the 5.12. and Wednesday the 6.12. from 11am onwards.
News date: 11/29/2006
Press Conference
A Premiere: The first public presentation of the Visual History Archive at the Freie Universitaet Berlin.
News date: 11/29/2006
Meeting on the Implementation of the Visual History Archive
Invitation to the first meeting on the future use of the Visual History Archive at the Freie Universität on 20.11.2006
News date: 11/15/2006
Project Presentation
Downloading the Presentation
News date: 11/08/2006
Internal University Project Presentation
Project Presentation: "Visual History Archive" on Thursday, 02.11.2006, from 4:15 – 5:30 pm in Room L113 in the Rost- und Silberlaube
News date: 10/22/2006
