The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (VHF) was established by Steven Spielberg to videotape interviews with Holocaust survivors all over the world. Over 50,000 interviews have been conducted resulting in video archives that would take almost fourteen years to view as an entity.

Now the challenge is to effectively mine this massive collection and distribute to key institutions around the world for research and educational purposes using high performance networks, mass storage and advanced technologies.

Sam Gustman discusses how the VHF developed the necessary technology and protocols to navigate through these materials by keywords, subject, and names using the sophisticated system (pictured above) for storage, management, and display of over 180 tera-bytes of multimedia data.

Sponsored by: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

In conjunction with: Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Department of Anthropology, Department of Computer Science, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of History, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Speech Communication, Drobny Program for Jewish Culture and Society, Honors Program, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Institute for Communications Research, Program for the Study of Religion, Program in Comparative Literature, Spurlock Museum, Unit for Cinema Studies, University Library, Champaign-Urbana Jewish Federation