It is our pleasure to announce that the Holocaust Center of Northern California and the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project have merged, creating a central Bay Area resource for Holocaust education and remembrance.

Both merger partners share the same mission: to preserve Holocaust memory and to ensure that recent history is taught in innovative and thought-provoking ways.

The new Holocaust Center houses a library, archives and more than 1,700 oral testimonies of local residents who are eyewitnesses and survivors of the Holocaust, gathered by the Oral History Project. These video and audio testimonies are available for viewing at the Holocaust Center.

The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project pioneered the gathering and preservation of Holocaust testimonies. By giving survivors, liberators and rescuers the opportunity to record their life histories, the Oral History Project created and maintains a powerful legacy for future generations. The collection of over 1,700 oral testimonies is among the oldest in the country and is still growing. The Project’s effort to capture and share these rare first-person accounts with the public is ongoing.

The Holocaust Center of Northern California was one of the first agencies in the world to recognize the importance of bringing survivors to classrooms so that students could learn history first hand.

By merging, the Holocaust Center and the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project will maximize their effectiveness in teaching the consequences of racism, hatred and indifference and increase their capacity to gather, preserve and disseminate historic eyewitness accounts.

To continue on to the Oral History Project, or to see and hear an excerpt of a compelling testimony, click here.

To go to the Holocaust Center's main page, click here.