17 September, 2026
Launch of the Swedish-Language Testimonies October 5th
You are warmly invited to the launch of the Swedish-language indexing project in the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive.
The project has made Swedish-language Holocaust survivor testimonies more accessible for research, education and public engagement through comprehensive indexing.
By making 209 testimonies searchable across more than 70,000 terms including people, places, events, experiences and subjects, the project opens new possibilities for exploring this important collection and asking new questions of the material.
The launch brings together everyone interested in working with Holocaust testimonies, survivor narratives and oral history to reflect on the possibilities and challenges of working with testimony collections. What can searchable testimony archives offer researchers and the public? How do methods of indexing and digital access shape the ways in which testimonies can be explored and interpreted? And what new perspectives emerge when individual life stories can be studied both in depth and across a larger collection?
The programme will introduce the Swedish-language indexing project and its development, followed by a panel discussion.
Date: 5 October
Time: 4:00–7:00 pm (CEST, UTC+2)
Venue: The Swedish Holocaust Museum, Torsgatan 19, Stockholm, or online via livestream.
The launch is a co-operation between the Swedish Holocaust Museum, the IHRS and the USC Shoah Foundation.
Would you like to attend the event virtually? Please email: ellen.hallgren@shm.se
BILDTEXT: Photos of Holocaust survivors in the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archives. Vourtesy of the USC Shoah Foundation.