The shoa foundation

The shoah foundation is a visual history foundation. It was started in 1994 by Steven Speilberg, he decided to start the foundation soon after making the movie, "Schindler's List." The foundation feels that visual history is important because it allows viewers to really connect with the holocaust survivors and try to see things from their perspectives. Shoa in Hebrew means catastrophe, Steven Speilberg refers to the foundation as having a three act goal,

• Act One can be seen as a race against time to collect the testimony of remaining Holocaust survivors before it is too late.
• Act Two is the process of indexing and cataloguing the visual history testimonies the Foundation has collected.
• Act Three is the process of turning the survivors into educators.
  

At the moment they are working on act two, volunteers have recoded about 52,000 visual histories. Each one takes about two an a half hours to record. The recordings are of a variety of people from different countries who speak many different languages. The following are the different survivors that their archive hold recordings from.

• Homosexual survivors - These are persons who were persecuted by the Nazi regime based on their homosexuality or suspected homosexuality.

• Jehovah's Witness survivors - These are persons who were persecuted by the Nazi regime based on their religious affiliation with the Jehovah's Witness faith.

• Jewish survivors - These are persons who were persecuted by the Nazi regime based on their religious affiliation with Judaism.

• Political prisoner survivors - These are persons who were persecuted by the Nazi regime based on their political convictions and/or expression of those convictions.

• Sinti and Roma survivors - These are persons who were persecuted by the Nazi regime based on their affiliation with the Sinti and Roma cultural groups ("Gypsies").

• Eugenics policy survivors - These are persons who were persecuted by the Nazi regime based on eugenics laws and policies -- in an attempt to maintain a "pure" German race, the Nazis sterilized and killed people with mental and physical disabilities.

This link allows you to downloads the questionnaire that they use in the interviews along with guidelines for the interviewers, which are very important to the foundations,
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/vhi/vhf-new/Pages/1-Access-Methodology.htm

The questionnaire is actually 40 pages long, the format and questions of the questionnaire was somewhat surprising to me.

If anyone looks at the questionnaire I would like to know what your thoughts on it are.