Holocaust Survivors and Witnesses Indexed Online The new web site of the University of Southern California's Foundation Institute includes a searchable index of 52,000 Holocaust survivors and witnesses in 56 countries. You can search for a person born before, during, or after a certain time, city and country of birth, or state and country of interview. You can view samples of some interviews and locate institutions that provide access to all the full interviews. Here is the announcement posted on their web site: As part of the expansion of its educational work, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute has redesigned its website and made new educational resources available online. With the goal of delivering testimony-based resources to the widest possible audiences, the new website is easier to explore, the video player used to view testimony clips is larger, and core elements like the Online Testimony Viewer have been revamped. The website also offers new tools and content, including an interactive map of locations around the world at which people can view testimonies or search the entire Visual History Archive, and a section where visitors can find educational resources in languages other than English. Another resource now available is Segments for the Classroom, a set of seven testimony clip reels (six in English and one in Spanish) that educators can download and incorporate into their own classroom lessons. The clip reels, each of which include testimony from one or more survivors and range from 17 to 33 minutes in length, cover a variety of topics including: Auschwitz II-Birkenau, The Holocaust through the Eyes of Child Survivors, Facing Persecution as a Jehovah's Witness, The Sobibor Uprising, The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, The Auschwitz II-Birkenau Sonderkommando, and The Experience of Survivors who Emigrated from Europe to Latin America (in Spanish). "The Institute supports scholarship and education throughout the world," Douglas Greenberg, Institute Executive Director, said. "We hope we have created an online destination that is a valuable resource for educators, researchers, scholars, students, and the general public interested in using first-person testimony as an educational tool." The Institute worked with Evenson Design Groupto create the new website, which launched this week. To explore the resources and information available on the new site, log on at www.college.usc.edu/vhi.