Oral History Productions

Links

Organizations, projects and experts we have been working with:

Oral History Research Office, Columbia University, New York
September 11, 2001 Narrative and Memory Project,
www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/oral/sept11.html

Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project, Mauthausen Memorial, Austria
www.mauthausen-memorial.at

Institut für Konfliktforschung, Institute for Conflict Research, Vienna, Austria
www.ikf.ac.at

Dokumentationszentrum des östereichischen Widerstandes,
(Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance), Vienna, Austria
www.doew.at

Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Los Angeles
http://vhf.org

Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York
www.mjhnyc.org

Facing History and Ourselves – Examining History and Human Behavior
http://facing.org

Veterans History Project, Library of Congress, Washington
www.loc.gov/folklife/vets

Henri Nouwen Oral History Project, Henri Nouwen Insitute, Toronto, Canada
http://nouwen.net

SOS Kinderdorf e.V, Munchen, Germany
www.sos-kinderdorf.de/portal/muenchen,2814.html

SOS Children’s Villages International, Vienna, Innsbruck, Austria
www.sos-childrensvillages.org

ORF Austrian Radio and Television Corporation, Vienna, Austria
www.Orf.at

Univ. Prof. Dr. Michael John – Institut fuer Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Univ. Linz
www.wsg-hist.uni-linz.ac.at/personen/john/person.html

Univ. Prof. Dr. Albert Lichtblau – Insitut fuer Geschichte, Universitaet Salzburg
www.sbg.ac.at/ges/people/lichtblau/home.htm

Oral History Associations:

Oral History Association, OHA
www.dickinson.edu/oha/index.html

International Oral History Association, IOHA
www.ioha.fgv.br

Association of Personal Historians, APH
www.personalhistorians.org

Oral History in the Midatlantic Region, OHMAR
www.ohmar.org/index.html

Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of Berkeley, California
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO

Oral History Society Great Britain
www.oralhistory.org.uk

Oral History in China
www.oralhistory.netfirms.com

Other websites of interest:

Historic Sites and Museums:

The Lower Eastside Tenement Museum, New York
www.tenement.org/Virtual_Tour/index_virtual.html

Eldridge Street Project
www.eldridgestreet.org/morehist.html

Ellis Island – American Family Immigration History Center
www.ellisisland.org

International Coalition of Historic Sites of Conscience
www.sitesofconscience.org

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
www.ushmm.org

Mauthausen Memorial, Austria
www.mauthausen-memorial.at

KZ Gedenkstaette Ebensee, Austria
www.ebensee.org

Topographie des Terrors
www.topographie.de

Gedenkstaette Dachau, Germany
www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de

Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
www.yad-vashem.org.il

Jüdisches Museum, Wien, Austria
www.jmw.at

Bergen Belsen Memorial
www.bergenbelsen.de/en

Memorial and Museum Auschwitz Birkenau
www.auschwitz-muzeum.oswiecim.pl

Trauma Research and Memory Studies, Narrative Medicine:

International Trauma Studies Program, New York University, New York
www.nyu.edu/trauma.studies

Institute for the Study of Genocide
www.isg-iags.org

Hamburger Institut fur Sozialforschung
www.his-online.de

Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory
www.indiana.edu/~cshm

Narrative Therapy
www.massey.ac.nz/~alock/virtual/white.htm

Narrative Medicine, Dr. Rita Charon, MD, Ph.D. Columbia University
http://litsite.alaska.edu/uaa/healing/medicine.html

The Infinite Mind, NPR radio program explores the art and science of the human mind.
www.lcmedia.com/mindprgm.htm

Immigrants, Refugees and Ethnicity Institutes, Studies and Projects:

International Center for Migration, Ethnicity & Citizenship, New School University, New York
www.newschool.edu/icmec

Gesellschaft fuer Exilforschung, Technische Universität Berlin
www.exilforschung.de/kontakt/kontakt.html

European Research Center on Migration and Ethnic Relations, Univ. Utrecht
www.uu.nl/uupublish/onderzoek/onderzoekcentra/ercomer/24638main.html

Leo Baeck Institute, New York
www.lbi.org

Oral History Projects in the USA:

Crossing the Blvd: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America
http://crossingtheblvd.org

Ping Chong & Company: Undesirable Elements – Secret History Project
www.undesirableelements.org

StoryCorps
http://StoryCorps.net

Sound Portraits
http://Soundportraits.org

City Lore
http://www.citylore.org

Telling Lives
www.tellinglives.com

Oral History Projects in Europe:

BBC – Inside Lives
www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/insidelives

Oral History in the Arts

christoph mayer chm
ort jenseits der strasse / kunst + museumsprojekt krankenhaus zschadrass
www.ort-jenseits-der-strasse.de/html/content/04_lebenslauf.htm

Claudia Heu, Jeremy Xido:
Ton-Spuren -- Traces
www.cabula6.com

Storytelling

Laura Simms: international storyteller, author, teacher and activist
www.laurasimms.com

Historic Research, Post-Holocaust Education and Reconciliation Efforts, Austria Germany:

Project "National Socialism and the Holocaust: Memory and Present"
www.erinnern.at

Institut fuer Geschichte der Juden in Österreich, St. Pölten, Austria
members.magnet.at/injoest/index.html

Nationalfonds der Republik Österreich, Austrian National Fund, Vienna, Austria
www.nationalfonds.org

Austrian Fund for Reconciliation, Peace and Cooperation
Österreichischer Versöhnungsfonds, Vienna, Austria
www.reconciliationfund.at

Österreichische Historiker Kommission, Austrian Historical Commission
www.historikerkommission.gv.at/english_home.html

Stiftung Erinnerung, Verantwortung, Zukunft Foundation
"Remembrance, Responsibility and Future", Berlin, Germany
www.stiftung-evz.de

The “Claims Conference” works to secure compensation and restitution for survivors of the Holocaust and heirs of victims.
www.claimscon.org

Post-Genocide Dialogue, Conflict Transformation, Human Rights:

Healing through Remembering – Northern Ireland
www.brandonhamber.com/resources_htr.htm

Alliance of Conflict Transformation
www.conflicttransformation.org/index.asp

Directory of Human Rights Resources on the Internet
http://shr.aaas.org/dhr/?e_id=193

Austrian Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution
hwww.aspr.ac.at/aspr.htm

Peace Research in the Middle East - PRIME's purpose is to pursue mutual co-existence and peace-building through joint research and outreach activities
www.vispo.com

Dan Bar-On - Dialogue with the Enemy
www.nahost-politik.de/psychologie/bar-on.htm

The Austrian Encounter
www.Nach.ws

The Foundation Trust: To create and foster communication, dialogue and education, London
www.thefoundationtrust.org

Arche. Platform for intercultural Projects, Vienna, Austria
www.Arche.or.at

Verein Gedenkdienst, Europäischer Freiwilligendienst
www.Gedenkdienst.at

Facing History and Ourselves – Examining History and Human Behavior
http://facing.org

The Dialogue Project, Jewish-Arab Dialogue
http://thedialogueproject.org

Power Under – Trauma and Nonviolent Social Change
http://traumaandnonviolence.com

Immigrants Rights, American Friends Service Committee
http://www.afsc.org

Human Rights Watch
http://hrw.org/doc/?t=refugees&document_limit=0,2

Doctors Without Borders
www.refugeecamp.org

UN High Commissioneer for Refugees
www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home

Amnesty International
www.amnestyusa.org/refugee/index.do