Grim Expectations: Video Testimony in the College Classroom

Autor/in	Hillman, Susanne
Titel	Grim Expectations: Video Testimony in the College Classroom
Quelle	In: History Teacher, 48 (2015) 2, S.295-320 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-2745
Schlagwörter	History Instruction; Archives; Databases; Video Technology; Films; College Students; Jews; Death; War; European History; Personal Narratives; Memory; Empathy; Reflection + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht; Archivwesen; Archiv; Datenbank; Film; Collegestudent; Jew; Jude; Jüdin; Juden; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Krieg; Erlebniserzählung; Gedächtnis; Empathie
Abstract	Visual History Archive, or VHA, is the world's largest database of videotaped and digitized Holocaust video testimony. The VHA originated with filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who consulted camp survivors when making his blockbuster film "Schindler's List" in 1993. Inspired by this collaboration, Spielberg went on to establish the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. Over the course of the next several years, volunteers interviewed close to 52,000 survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust worldwide. The result of this massive effort was a digital archive containing hundreds of thousands of hours of filmed footage in thirty-three languages, currently available at fifty institutions on four continents. In 2006, the organization changed its name to USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education. Over the last several years, the Shoah Foundation Institute has become increasingly aware of the unwieldy nature of the archive and the many obstacles standing in the way of widespread use. To expand access, the Foundation created a program called IWitness, an online resource comprising about 1,300 English-language interviews from the VHA geared towards secondary education. Available to any educator worldwide, the program features numerous learning activities and the possibility of creating videos from the available footage. In this article, the author describes her experience with writing assignments based on VHA video testimony in several upper-division history courses taught at UC San Diego and suggests new ways of making use of this magnificent resource. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Society for History Education. California State University, Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Boulevard, Long Beach, CA 90840-1601. Tel: 562-985-2573; Fax: 562-985-5431; Web site: http://www.societyforhistoryeducation.org/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01