Meanwhile, the Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation contains several collections of interviews with survivors and witnesses of different genocides. Beside the collection with testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust it includes a collection on the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda and a collection on the Nanjing Massacre 1937/1938.

Interview collection on National Socialism and the Holocaust

Who was interviewed?

The Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation includes nearly 52,000 interviews with survivors of the Holocaust. The largest number of interviewees were Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. However, other victims of persecution such as Sinti and Roma, politically persecuted, homosexuals, Jehova’s Witnesses and survivors of the nazi eugenic program had been interviewed as well. Furthermore, rescuers and aid providers, liberators and liberation witnesses as well as war crimes trials participants had also been amongst the interviewees.

Number of interviews by experience groups
Jewish Survivors	48,997
Sinti and Roma Survivors	407
Politically Persecuted	261
Jehovah's Witness Survivors	83
Survivors of Eugenic Policies	13
Non-Jewish Forced Labour Workers	11
Homosexual Survivors	6
Resucers and Aid Providers	1,133
Liberators and Liberation Witnesses	363
War Crimes Trial Participants	62
Other	32

In which countries were the interviews conducted?

The USC Shoah Foundation has conducted interviews in the following countries:

Number of testimonies by country
Argentinina	737	Mexico	111
Australia	2,484	Moldova	284
Austria	188	Netherlands	1,044
Belarus	246	New Zealand	53
Belgium	204	Norway	34
Bolivia	23	Peru	2
Bosnia and Herzegovina	55	Poland	1,372
Brazil	564	Portugal	2
Bulgaria	628	Romania	147
Chile	65	Russia	675
Colombia	15	Serbia and Montenegro	346
Costa Rica	19	Slovakia	656
Croatia	327	Slovenia	11
Czech Republic	563	South Africa	250
Denmark	94	Spain	7
Ecuador	9	Sweden	325
Estonia	9	Switzerland	69
Finland	1	Ukraine	3,427
France	1,673	United Kingdom	876
Georgia	6	United States	19,759
Germany	674	Uruguay	122
Greece	303	Uzbekistan	25
Hungary	788	Venezuela	227
Ireland	4	Zimbabwe	8
Israel	8,504	USA	19,759
Italy	417	Usbekistan	25
Japan	1	Venezuela	227
Macedonia	9	Zimbabwe	8

In which languages the interviews were conducted?

The USC Shoah Foundation has conducted interviews in 32 languages:

Number of testimonies by language
Bulgarian	624	Lithuanian	46
Croatian	393	Macedonian	9
Czech	560	Norwegian	34
Danish	67	Polish	1,502
Dutch	1,076	Portugese	560
English	24,690	Romani	24
Flemish	5	Romanian	290
French	1,861	Russian	7,084
German	922	Serbian	384
Greek	305	Sign	5
Hebrew	6,273	Slovak	560
Hungarian	1,339	Slovenian	6
Italian	433	Spanish	1,344
Japanese	1	Swedish	264
Ladino (Sephardic)	9	Ukrainian	304
Latvian	1	Yiddish	554

Interview collection on the genocide in Rwanda

Since 2014, the Visual History Archive includes a collection of 57 audiovisual testimonies of survivors of the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi genocide. In addition, 7 interviews were conducted with saviors and helpers. The interviews were conducted in cooperation with the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda (52) and in the USA (12), in Kinyarwanda (54) and English (10).

IInterview collection on the Nanjing Massacre

Since February 2014, the archive includes also 12 interviews with survivors of the Nanjing Massacre of 1937/38. These interviews are in were conducted in Nanjing/China in Mandarin and are the result of a cooperation with the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall.

Interview collection on the genocide in Armenia

By April 2015, the collection of interviews conducted by Dr. J. Michael Hagopian with survivors and witnesses of the Armenian Genocide will begin to be integrated into the Visual History Archive.