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Greetings,

I received an email from the Institute today after I learned that one can also view testimonies (in French) at the Memorial de la Shoah in France (not included in my original list of sites) and wrote to them once again. I learned that there are many institutions around the world that have incorporated copies of testimonies on DVD or VHS into their permanent collections. However, these collections involve a limited number of testimonies, and the physical copies don't have any kind of search tool to help locate specific material (as there is on the SFI site.) There are a few large collections, e.g. the one int
Paris that I have mentioned, that has all testimonies given in the French language and given by residents of France in other languages, which amounts to over eighteen-hundred testimonies. Similar collections exist in The Netherlands and in Italy. If you'd like to see where these other collections lie, please visit http://college.usc.edu/vhi/download/TestimoniesAroundtheWorld_PDF.pdf .

One doesn't have to make an appt. to see testimonies at the USHMM. However, at the other sites, i.e. the fifteen mentioned in my previous posting, while they have all 50,000 + testimonies in their possession, they are not all available immediately for viewing, and it could take forty-eight hours or so for the archive/site to get it and upload it so you can see it. This is why you should write/call in advance, so they can find specifically what you are looking for and have it prepared for you when you get there.

Best,
Steven Lasky
New York
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