Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
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[edit] Address and Contact Info:
Address: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Pl., SW, Washington, DC 20024-2150.
Phone: (202) 488-6110 (general information); (202) 488-6162 (special events calendar and reservations).
Fax: (202) 479-9726
Web page: http://www.ushmm.org/research/center
Online Finding Aid:
Archivists (principal contacts for advice on the collection):
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[edit] Collection Summary:
The Library of the USHMM contains more than 66,000 titles in its multi-language collection. Materials relate to the modern history of European countries affected by the Holocaust; the history of fascism; racial prejudice and anti-Semitism; genocide and issues related to the world response to genocide; the study of victims of racial and political prejudice; the development of various types of concentration camps; the study of child victims; Jewish responses to the Holocaust; Holocaust-related art, literature, and theology; and the personal recollections of victims. The library also has a major collection of Yizkor (memorial) books that preserve the memory of families and cultural life of many communities destroyed during the Holocaust.
The Archives of the USHMM contains over 40 million pages of textual records on a wide range of subjects pertaining to the Holocaust, its origins, its implementation, and its aftermath. Examples of the types of documentation maintained in the archives are the records of Jews and Jewish organizations in Germany, Austria, and elsewhere; Romanian records relating to the murder of Jews and Roma in Transnistria; records of the SS and police leaders in the Lublin District (occupied Poland); records of the postwar Soviet trials of key SS officials; major collections from various archives and ministries in Croatia, Belgium, France, Bulgaria, and the Netherlands; and wartime records relating to the activities of the Einsatzgruppen operating in Latvia and Belarus. The archives also contains materials on the fate of the Roma (Gypsies) and Jehovah’s Witnesses, camp and ghetto music and lyrics, etc. A searchable Archival Guide is available on the museum’s web site.
The Photo Archive is a full-service research archive as well as the repository for historical still photography within the USHMM. It currently holds more than 70,000 images. Over 80 percent of this collection is in digitized format. An online database is available for visitors to the photo archive. Over 1,000 public domain photographic images are available for viewing on the museum’s web site. The photo archive can reproduce materials that are owned by the USHMM or available in the public domain. Fees are limited to the cost of reproduction.
The Oral History Department collects and produces video- and audio-taped testimonies of Holocaust survivors, rescuers, liberators, resistance fighters, prosecutors, perpetrators, and bystanders. Its archives contain more than 7,000 interviews, mostly in English.
The Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive includes motion picture footage dating from 1920 to 1948 that relates to prewar Jewish and Roma (Gypsy) life and culture, Germany during the prewar period, the Nazi rise to power, and the persecution of Jews in Germany and the occupied areas; resistance movements; Displaced Persons camps; and the illegal immigration of Holocaust survivors and refugees to Palestine. There is also material on U.S. responses to the events in Europe between 1933 and 1945.
The Division of Education and the Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors serve as resources for educators. Reading rooms for the use of the library and archival collections are open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Limited services are available to researchers on weekends and holidays. Access is by elevator adjacent to the 14th Street entrance to the USHMM.
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