Oral history databases recommendations
“Memory of Nations is one of Europe’s most extensive collections of life stories. It has been publicly accessible since 2008 as a database of testimonies of witnesses of 20th century events who survived the two totalitarian regimes – nazism and communism. The stories illustrate how these regimes impacted individual lives, and allow for uncovering of their substance.”
Príbehy 20. storočia (Stories of the 20th century, printed quaterly magazine in Slovak)
“The quarterly magazine Stories of the 20th Century deals with themes from the period of former totalitarian regimes and adds the context of contemporary society. It will find its readers among those who like to delve into more challenging texts and know that to understand the present, we need to know our past.”
Fórum Filmek (Documentaries of Forum Institute, in Hungarian, some with Slovak or English subtitles)
Documentary films and individual interviews of the Forum Minority Research Institute on topics like the life of Hungarians in Slovakia, war prisoners after WWII, the events of 1956, 1968 and 1989 through the lenses of members of the Hungarian minority in (Czecho)Slovakia, etc.
Fórum E-shop (Publication of Forum Institute, mainly in Hungarian)
Results of research work and collections of oral history interviews of the Forum Minority Reseacrh Institute in book, research magazine and online formats.
Menschenleben (Oral history archive of Austrian people from the 20th and 21st century)
Results of life story interviews and collections of oral history accounts of the Technical Museum of Vienna and the Astrian Mediathek.
Austrian Heritage Archive (AHA)
The Austrian Heritage Archive (AHA) collects video and audio interviews with Jewish Austrian emigrés who fled to the USA or Palestine/Israel during the National Socialist period or immediately afterwards.
