Visual History Archive User Manual
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1. To browse a complete list of names click NEXT new search back reset next Copyright 2001 2005 Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation Version 4 05 0000 Enter the name you want to search in the First Name and Last Name text boxes You can search for first name only and leave the last name blank or vice versa Select the desired search type using the radio buttons for starts with exact match or contains The search type defaults to starts with so if you enter just the first few characters of a name such as Got your search will yield names like Gotfryd or Gottfried In most cases it is best to select starts with or contains as your search type Note The Visual History Archive does not use a soundex system so when searching for a person you may need to try several different spellings of a name 18 People Search Example As an example in the First Name text box enter Jack and in the Last Name search box enter Lewin The search type defaults to starts with Click next to begin the search The initial search retrieves seven results and displays them in the Choices box as shown below The relationship type listed after each name indicates the relationship of each person to the interviewee for a particular testimony Therefore the two Jack Lewins whose relationship type is listed as husband had wives who gave interviews Note that one of the names has the last name Louis because his n2. Note This specific testimony may not be loaded in your local cache since each Internet2 access site has a different cache with different digitized testimonies already loaded To the left of the viewing screen are some instructions that will help you change the size of the video as well as the volume of the audio The audio volume can also be adjusted by using the slider control next to the speaker symbol in the gray box at the bottom of the viewing screen 14 Below the viewing screen is a text box that displays cataloguing or indexing data associated Interview Code with the testimony being viewed Click on the 3498 7 links to the left of the text box as illustrated at right here to change the information presented All Keywords in this Segment All People in this Segment Mame of intennewee Biographical Profile b Belah Danan Biographical Profile All People in this Testimony The Biographical Profile is displayed in the text Donor Recognition box by default when doing a Quick Search People Search or Biographical Search by Experience Group The Biographical Profile contains basic biographical information about the interviewee that was collected from the interviewee in a Pre Interview Questionnaire before each interview as well as from the actual interview sender Female You can scroll through the displayed data using the up and down arrows on the scroll bar to the right of the text box Note Each interview has a
3. Panama SITES cee SA E OE T E EE E e he at a Beste e o n DO E hee 16 Pao INON ON A ENEE E E E E E E NE E E E 16 Reguestina to Calpeor Dioh ge LOM ONES erii tenn iE EE E A RE EEEE E EEEE ee 17 PEOPLE SEARCH aaa 18 PEOPLE SEACE o e o a dean eo el ne Te 19 BIOGRAPHICAL SEARCH BY EXPERIENCE GROUP cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccceccccoes 20 SELECTAN EXPERIENCE GRO Pd a o 20 SELECT CATEGORIES OE SE ARC Ee CRIT RUN cessed ccc eae at E ce a E EEE EE E E E ae aces 20 Or PT apg A A AS 21 SELEGE ONE OR MORE SABIOS A nd dc aio 22 SPEGIEY ANN OR CUIR SEARCH nat dd dae e e e ee e E do e Doe e e 23 HIDING FLIGHT RESISTANCE FORCED DEATH MARCHES SEARCH ii Aa 24 e A 24 A A PT OE A O A A O 25 SAVING RESULTS TOA PROTECT dado cdas 25 GLOBAL KEYWORDS SEARCH oroia e a das 26 BROWSING KEYWORDS aran toa 26 AROSA OA A II CA 2I SEARCHING KEYWORDS N o e ease 21 SINALE A D D ee trae E E A e e AET A 28 SPECIFYING THE SEARCH TYPE AND SEGMENT RANGE cc ccecccesoscscecsccscsscseccccscscetsnvecscecetecctastsnecetscuscesetesscssessecenes 28 INTEGRATING SEARCHES USING PROJECTS sicccccscsssccsscsssscasovsscesatecvccsscossscnsssavocsseuencessseeessssesavacsotosvecsaswoste 30 The Shoah Foundation Archive In 1994 Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation was established by Steven Spielberg to videotape the testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses To date the Foundation has recorded and preserved the testimoni
4. Quick Search Click Quick Search on the main Search screen to advance to the Quick Search screen which is shown below About the Shoah Foundation Registration Search Search History Projects Site Map Help Feedback QUICK SEARCH Development of the QUICK SEARCH was funded by the Leo Rosner Foundation Search History The QUICK SEARCH is a free text field that allows the user to enter search terrns of interest that may appear as personal names indexing keywords or their synonyms or numbers representing interview Search String codes The search will reveal testimonies in which the search term matched a personal name and or a Testimonies 0 keyword or its synonym and or the interview code The search results lists will display with the matching Language Gender Projects search terms and associated testirnonies Please note If the search term matched a synonym of a keyword the synonym will display in the search results list but the viewing screen will display the preferred label for Search Results ee he Sag E eg hi Sees ve A Oa Be ee ee ee ele ee Fe ey eae A l l the keyword as indexing and or cataloguing information Please see the FAQ under the Help Menu for Testimonies 0 or 5 more information To search enter your search term s below separate multiple terms with a space Do not enter punctuation marks Select the desired search type and click Next Find results O with all of the words O with the exact p
5. Do not enter punctuation marks Select the desired search type and click Next Find results O with all of the words bedzin ghetto hunger O with the exact phrase O with at least one of the words new search back reset next Copyright 2001 2005 Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation Version v405 On the next page the Language Gender Project screen you can see in the Search History column that the initial search retrieves 46 results On this page you have the option to limit your search by Language of Testimony Gender of Interviewee or My Projects For this example limiting the search is not necessaty For a full discussion of the Language Gender Project screen see Limiting A Search on page 24 Click next to continue the search Search Results The Search Results screen that displays next as shown below lists the first 5 results of the 46 results found Each of the results displays a small photo of the interviewee the Name of the interviewee the Language of the interview the Video Availability status of the interview the Experience group of the interviewee and a brief line of text that lists the first personal name indexing term or interview code that matches one of the original search terms you entered Note If the search term matched a synonym of an indexing keyword the preferred label for the keyword will display as the text not the synonym Please see the FAQ under the Help Menu for mo
6. Michal w Poland Ghetto 3 deportation From Miech w Poland Ghetto F E LA incarceration which includes camps or prisons Selected K eywords thirst during deportations deportation from M t szalka Hungary Ghetto ee Add gt gt lt lt Remove lt lt La deportation From Miedzyrzec Poland Ghetto F deportation From Mielec Poland Ghetto A deportation From Milejczyce Poland Ghetto 3 deportation From Milewo Poland Ghetto LA deportation From Mindszent Hungary Ghetto Search Typ e 2 OR OAND Ge gment K ange A deportation From Minsk USSR Ghetto oF w A danmark shinn Fram Minek hise Daland The HH Specifying the Search Type and Segment Range If you add only one keyword to the Selected Keywords box the Search Type defaults to an OR search If you add more than one keyword to Selected Keywords you can choose to do an OR or AND search between keywords To select the Search Type click the radio button next to OR or AND which appears near the bottom center of the Global Keywords Search screen as shown above Note In most cases it is best to choose AND as the Search Type between multiple keywords otherwise too many results may be returned To continue our example select AND as the Search Type Thus we will search for testimonies in which both the keywords thirst during deportations AND deportation from Mat szalka Hungary Ghetto were indexed 28 The A
7. The videotapes that were used to film the interviews had about a 30 minute capacity therefore multiple tapes were often used to film one interview For instance the average interview length in the archive is about 2 5 hours which requires 5 tapes Choose One q Video Slide Show To navigate to the beginning of a different tape click the down arrow to the right of the tape navigation list box and select the desired tape number 16 Requesting to Cache or Digitize Testimonies If a digitized testimony is not on your local cache you will see a message as shown at right on the left of the viewing screen that explains how to request to load the testimony on the cache To download a testimony to your local cache click Request Video Once you click Request Video a pop up message will display that indicates your testimony has been requested and should be available within the next 48 hours Click the back button on the pop up message to return to the main viewing screen When you check back later you will know that the video is available because the video will begin playing immediately on the viewing screen If it has been more than 48 hours and the video is not available please email vhi acc college usc edu for assistance If a testimony has not been digitized you will see a message as shown at right on the left side of the viewing screen that explains how to place a request to digitize a testimony To request digitizati
8. in Poland highlight the entry ghettos in Poland verified and click next Note Ghettos in the verified lists have been corroborated in Holocaust scholarship by the Shoah Foundation research team Select One or More Ghettos On the next screen the names of the verified ghettos in Poland are displayed in the Keyword Choices display box as shown below To search for specific ghettos highlight one or more entries in the Keyword Choices box and click Add shettos Any term that could not be verified through research efforts is marked with 0 and is considered unverified Any geographic term that could not be specifically located and or identified is marked as generic Generic terms are often labeled as such due to the existence of duplicate names of geographic terms within a specific region All terms verified unverified and generic are listed in alphabetical order Highlight an item s below and click ADD To coduct this search click NEXT Keyword Choices 47 records Selected Keywords ndrch w Poland Ghetto Annopol Poland Ghetto Baranow Sandomierski Poland Ghetto Baranowicze Poland Ghetto Bedzin Poland Ghetto Belchat r Poland Ghetto Belzyce Poland Ghetto tty Add gt gt Bereza Kartuska Poland Ghetto Berezne Poland Ghetto Berezow Poland Ghetto Biala Podlask a Poland Ghetto lt Remove lt lt Biala Rawska Poland Ghetto Bialaczow Poland Ghetto B
9. is normally quite small You can expand the text box to see more data at once by clicking on the Maximize Minimize Data link which appears to the right of the text box Note When you maximize the text box while a video is playing the video will automatically be paused Video and Slide Show When available the Video and Slide Show links to the right of the viewing screen allow you to toggle between viewing the video and viewing a slide show of still images from the interview If the Video or Slide Show links are grayed out then the corresponding video or slide show for a testimony is not available Frequently near the end of the interview interviewees presented family photographs documents and artifacts from the prewar wartime and postwar periods to be videotaped Images of these items are presented in the slide show To view the slide show click on the Slide Show link when available To return to playing the video click on the Video link when available Video Navigation To move forward or backward in an interview use the slider control in the gray box at the bottom of the viewing screen Click on the box and slide it forward or backward The forward and backward buttons on the viewing screen are not operable however the pause stop and play buttons function normally You can also move around in an interview using the tape navigation list box as shown at right which is located on the right side of the viewing screen
10. name For example as Yaakov shalom Svrsla brothers biological shown to the right clicking on Segment 8 takes you to the point in the interview where the interviewee discusses her mother and sister To view the segment of video where a particular person is discussed during the interview click on the segment 15 All Keywords in this Segment Keywords for Segment 113 When you click on the All Keywords in this Segment Poland 1944 link to the left of the text box on the viewing screen selections in the camps segment numbers will be displayed along with the Guttau Poland Concentration Camp keywords associated with those segments as shown at right Some segments have no assigned keywords because a topic may not have been discussed in sufficient detail or if the discussion spans several segments the relevant keywords were applied only once interaction with fanny members in the camps Keywords for Segment 114 To view the segment of video where a particular topic is discussed during the interview click on the segment number that contains the relevant keyword For example as shown above to the right clicking on Segment 113 takes you to the point in the interview where the interviewee discusses a selection in a camp Maximize Minimize Data The text box where data for Biographical Profile All People in this Testimony All People in this Segment All Keywords in this Segment and Donor Recognition is displayed
11. project highlight the project and click next In this example highlight the project we just saved Quick Search Bedzin ghetto hunger and click next On the next Projects screen as shown below the testimony or segment results will be listed in the box at the bottom of the screen About the Shoah Foundation Registration Search Search History Projects Site Map Help Feedback pT es ae an an ee S A ey Enter your project name and notes below and click Save TE arena Sour nn Project Name Quick Search Bedzin ghetto hunger enter the change and click g Gaye Date Created 01 19 2006 You may enter notes below and click Save Notes ew a testimony or segment highlight an item below and click NEXT Testimonies Segments within this Project a AP wable wji 48 Alexander Ferson English Rudzin English Lustman Portuguese delete back next Copyright 2001 2005 Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation Version 4 05 0000 To view a testimony or segment listed in the project highlight the desired entry in the list box and click next You will then advance to the Viewing Screen for the desired testimony or segment You can sort the results list of a project by clicking on any of the column headings First Name Last Name Language Experience Segment Int Code or Video Availability Also to enter notes that describe the results saved in your project type your notes in the No
12. unique Interview Code shown at the top of the Biographical Profile to help identify the specific testimony thus if more than one interviewee has the same name the Interview Code helps distinguish them All People in this Testimony When you click on the All People in this Testimony Ya akov Shalom Svirski brothers biological link to the left of the text box on the viewing screen the Yan ay Danan grandsons names of all the people associated with the testimony Yehudit Danan daughters in law and their relationship to the interviewee will be Yetah Shtolts aunts maternal displayed as shown at right Yetah oken aunts maternal Vitshak Rabmovich Judenrate members Yosef Kats cousins Zalman Svirski fathers biological The names that appear were taken from the Pre Interview Questionnaire or from the actual interview The character after a name indicates a phonetic spelling gt All People in this Segment When you click on the All People in this Segment link to the left of the text box on the viewing screen segment People m Segment 3 numbers will be displayed along with the names of people Rahel Svirski sisters biological discussed in those segments as shown at right If no Hayah Rivkah Svireki mothers biological people were discussed in a particular segment then the segment will be blank People m Segment 9 Rahel irski sisters biological number that contains the person s
13. Jewish Survivors Bedzin Ghetto amp Hiding o z o delete search within project next To search the results within a saved project highlight the desired project and click search within project You will then advance to the main search screen where you can choose to do a Quick Search People Search Biographical Search by Experience Group or Global Keywords Search within the saved results As an example we could search within the project we saved during the Biographical Search by Experience Group example The project Bio Search Jewish Survivors Bedzin Ghetto amp Hiding contains 57 testimonies as indicated in the project list shown above of survivors who were both incarcerated in the Bedzin ghetto and went into hiding during the war We could then find the segments within those testimonies in which the keyword customs and observances in the camps Jewish was indexed by doing a Global Keywords Search To do this highlight the Bio Search Jewish Survivors Bedzin Ghetto amp Hiding in the project list and then click search within project 30 Then click Global Keywords Search on the Advanced Search screen and search for the keyword customs and observances in the camps Jewish following the procedure outlined in the Global Keywords Search section beginning on page 26 When you advance to the Language Gender Projects screen as shown below notice that Bio Search Jewish Survivors Bedzin Ghetto amp Hiding is al
14. ND search also permits you to chose a Segment Range You can search for all Search Type Selected Keywords appearing in the Entire testimony within 1 segment 5 l segments 10 segments or 15 segments consecutively as shown at right OOR SAND To select a Segment Range click the down arrow to the right of the Segment Range list box and select the desired range Segment Range l i imc To continue our example select a Segment Range of 5 segments Entire testime Entire testimony Once you have selected the Search Type and Segment Range click next to conduct 1 segment the search 5 segments l 10 segments For our example conducting a search for the keywords thirst during deportations Hls AND deportation from Mat szalka Hungary Ghetto yields 5 results which can be seen in the Search History column of the Language Gender Project screen after clicking next ments For a full discussion of the Language Gender Project screen see Limiting A Search on page 24 For a full discussion of the results screen see the Search Results section on page 10 For a full discussion of viewing the results see The Viewing Screen section on page 14 Note The Search Results list will display segments in which one of your Selected Keywords appeared first 29 Integrating Searches Using Projects The Projects feature of the VHA offers users the capability to search within testimony or segment results that have been saved from pre
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16. Shoah Foundation Registration Search Search History Projects SiteMap Help Feedback BIOGRAPHICAL SEARCH JEWISH SURVIVORS Search History Search Results Sort by Last Name Y Viewing Records 1 to 5 of 57 Experience Jewish Survivors fee Name Mira Binford Language English Criteria E ee ee Experience Jewish Survivor Video Availability Viewable Ghettos Testimonies 275 AND Y ia Namie Jack Binstock Language English ml a UL y po y Eene N Experience Jewish Survivor Video Availability Viewable Hiding Flight Resistance Forced death Marches Testimonies 19984 Name Lola Blatt Language English di ah ala Experience Jewish Survivor Video Availability Viewable w i 48 Hrs Search Results Testimonies 57 Name Paul Borenstein Language English Experience Jewish Survivor Video Availability Viewable w i 48 Hrs Name Elias Burstyn Language English Experience Jewish Survivor Video Availability Viewable w i 48 Hrs new search save to project back next Copyright 2001 2005 Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation Version 4 05 0000 Saving Results to a Project Once again on the Search Results screen you can choose to save the results of your search to a project You can then return to the saved results at a later time To save the results for this example to a project click the save to project button When you click save to project you will be taken to another screen wh
17. ame at birth was Lewin When available alternative names have been entered for people in the Shoah Foundation database such as maiden names nicknames false names etc A People Search searches all alternative names for matches but only displays the preferred name About the Shoah Foundation Registration Search Search History Projects SiteMap Help Feedback PEOPLE ee E F i Ea Search History Name Nime Please note that each name displayed below represents one testimony Search results appear with the Testimonies preferred name given by the interviewee to the archive therefore your search result may appear different estimonles v s frorn the name you entered Language Gender Projects A Results Highlight an item s below and click ADD To coduct this search click NEXT Testimonies O Choices 7 records Selected Names Jack Lewin Interviewee Jack Lewin Interviewee Jack Lewin Jack Lewin Interviewee i Jack Lewin Interviewee Jack Lewin Interviewee Jack Louis Interviewee Jack Lewin Interviewee Jack Louis Interviewee gt gt Add gt gt lt lt Remove lt lt Go To Type Ahead Jack Lewin Interviewee new search back reset next For this example highlight the four names with the relationship type Interviewee and then click Add to add the names to the Selected Names box on the right Click next to search for the testimonies associated with the selected n
18. ames As expected conducting the search yields four results which can be seen in the Search History column of the Language Gender Project screen after clicking next For a full discussion of the Language Gender Project screen see Limiting A Search on page 24 For a full discussion of the results screen see the Search Results section on page 10 For a full discussion of viewing the results see The Viewing Screen section on page 14 19 Biographical Search By Experience Group The Biographical Search By Experience Group search allows users to search basic biographical information for interviewees categorized within nine different experience groups Click Biographical Search By Experience Group on the main Search screen to begin this search Select an Experience Group On the first page as shown below select one of the nine experience groups by clicking the radio button next to the desired group or the group name itself and click next Note A search within each experience group proceeds with a wizard like interface The search criteria for each group may vary but the layout of the screen and the functionality for each experience group are consistent About the Shoah Foundation Registration Search Search History Projects SiteMap Help Feedback a es ee ee es E E re TT ly ee Search History To search boigraphical information within a specific experience group choose an Experience group below and click NEXT La
19. aped testimony A testimony is watched from beginning to end and index terms and names of people are associated to a particular time code when a topic or person is discussed in some detail For example a mere mentioning of the death camp Auschwitz II Birkenau by the interviewee would not be indexed To match the content of the interview discussions keywords are selected from an evolving thesaurus of more than 30 000 terms Index terms include cities villages and other geographical locations such as Oswiecim Poland place names such as Auschwitz Birkenau Poland Concentration Camp and experiential terms such as sense of time in the camps About 49 000 testimonies in 26 languages have been indexed Digitization Digitization refers to the process of transferring the interviews from the original Beta SP tapes to a 3 mbps MPEG 1 digital format that can be viewed in the Visual History Archive A testimony must be digitized before it can be viewed Almost all archival testimonies have been digitized Catalogued 51 000 49 000 51 000 Note A testimony may be digitized and catalogued but not yet fully indexed Getting Started When you start the Visual History Archive application the welcome screen shown below will appear Click Enter to proceed to the Logon screen SURVIVORS OF THE SHO AvYH VISUAL HISTORY FOUNDATION VISUAL HISTORY ARCHIVE WWwWwW VH PF ORG Logon Once you enter t
20. at you wish to search on You will Language Gender Projects l y i l i be taken to another screen which will give you specific question s to help you find Search Results a testimony Testimonies 0 Biographical Profile Information Sample Answers O The Name of interviewee s e g John Srnith O The City of Birth of interviewee s e g Zagreb O The Country of Birth of interviewee s e g Yugoslavia O The Religious Affiliation s of interviewee s e g Judaism The Experiences of the interviewee s O Ghettos g Warka O Concentration Camp s g Sambor O Hiding Flight Resistance Forced death Marches q Yes O Aid Giver Liberator War Crimes Trials Participant g Yes O Other Experiences g Restricted Housing new search back reset next Copyright 2001 2005 Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation Version 4 05 0000 As an example select Ghettos and Hiding Flight Resistance Forced death Marches and click next Ghettos Search You will advance to the search screen for the first category of search criteria that you selected in the previous list In this example you advance to the Ghettos search screen as shown below which will enable you to find testimonies of Jewish survivors who were incarcerated in specific ghettos Ghettos To search by Ghetto enter the name of the ghetto below and click NEXT Ghetto Name O starts with O exact match O contains To browse a list of ghettos within a co
21. back BIOGRAPHICAL SEARCH JEWISH SURVIVORS Search History Language Gender Projects Experience To narrow your search by Language and or Gender and or Projects choose an itern frorn the pull down menus and click NEXT Jewish Survivors Criteria Ghettos To bypass these options and go directly to your search results click NEXT Testimonies 275 AND w B Language of Testimony English Hiding Flight Resistance Forced death Marches Testimonies 19984 Gender of Interviewee All Language Gender Projects My Project Select One Search Results Testimonies 92 TIP Have you created a project in Projects If so you can narrow the search on testimonies in Projects by choosing a project name from the pull down list new search back reset next Copyright 2001 2005 Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation Version 4 05 0000 24 To continue our example limit the search to English language testimonies select English for the Language of Testimony and click next Search Results In the Search History column of the Search Results screen as shown below you can see that limiting the search to English language testimonies narrowed the number of results from 92 to 57 For a full discussion of the results screen see the Search Results section on page 10 For a full discussion of viewing the results see the The Viewing Screen section on page 14 About the
22. been catalogued and indexed The statistics presented in the table below provide some insight into the access available to testimonies at this time In the VHA users will have different levels of access to the information contained in the testimonies Some testimonies will be fully accessible while others will be partially accessible The terms below describe the stages of making a testimony accessible in the Visual History Archive Cataloguing Cataloguing refers to the process of collecting and entering basic biographical information about interviewees into biographical profiles that can be searched by users The biographical information that is entered includes city and country of birth religious identity places of incarceration such as camps and ghettos names of family members and their fates and so on Much of this biographical information was collected from the interviewees in a Pre Interview Questionnaire PIQ however names and experiential data are also updated and corroborated as the interviews are viewed during the indexing process Brief biographical information for almost all testimonies has been catalogued Indexing Indexing refers to the process of associating keywords with segments of testimony providing users with access to segments of video Indexing at the Shoah Foundation which is similar to the indexing of a book uses digital time codes instead of pages to identify and locate specific moments segments in the videot
23. c of interest in the text box select the desired search type using the radio buttons for starts with exact match or contains and click Search for Keywords The search type defaults to starts with so if you enter just the first few characters of a word your search will yield all keywords that begin with those characters In most cases it is best to select starts with or contains as your search type As an example type in the word thirst and click Search for Keywords The search type will default to starts with The VHA will then search for any keywords in the list that begin with thirst After a brief pause the Found Keywords pop up window as shown at right will appear that lists all keywords that begin with thirst If click on the keyword in this box you scroll down the list in the pop up window you see that 10 unique keywords start with the word thirst Total 19 results start with thirst pct jonas er eee thirst pop up results on which you want to search click the desired keyword and thirst during deportations it will be highlighted in the Keyword Choices box In addition the idad ee keyword results pop up window will thirst during forced marches close automatically Tip To navigate to a specific keyword in Keyword Choices Note If you do not click on a keyword in the Found Keywords pop up window please close the pop up window before proceeding You can also use the keyword search feature to jump mo
24. e clicking on the topic economic life reveals numerous keywords such as agricultural training barter blackmail and so on 26 Keyword amp Definition The Keyword amp Definition box on the upper right side of the screen shows the keyword that is highlighted in the Keyword Choices box and a brief definition or description of the keyword Also the number of testimonies in which the keyword was indexed will be displayed next to the keyword This number will help you estimate how many results to expect before performing the actual search If a keyword has been indexed in a large number of testimonies you may want to narrow your search by combining multiple keywords using an AND seatch In the example shown above the keyword barter in the camps is highlighted in the Keyword Choices box so the same keyword is shown in the Keyword amp Definition box with a brief definition and the number of testimonies in which barter in the camps was indexed in this case 1519 testimonies Searching Keywords Instead of browsing for indexing keywords of interest Po starts with you may search for relevant keywords using the keyword O exact match search feature in the upper left side of the Global earch tor Keywords A Keywords Search screen as shown at right This feature is especially useful in helping you find relevant indexing keywords whose specific names and spellings you do not know To search for relevant keywords type a word or topi
25. e Hiding Flight Resistance Forced death Marches search screen shown above you have the option to search for testimonies of Jewish survivors who Went into hiding who were Members of an underground resistance or partisan group who Fled from Nazi controlled territory or who were on Forced death marches Note You can choose more than one of these options if desired A search with more than one of these options selected will perform an AND search between the options For this example click on the down arrow next to the Went into hiding choice box select Yes and then click next This will search for Jewish survivors who went into hiding Limiting A Search On the left hand side of the next screen in the Search History column you can see that the search for testimonies of interviewees who went into hiding yielded 19 984 results The combined search results for testimonies of interviewees who were both incarcerated in the Bedzin ghetto and went into hiding yielded 92 results On the Language Gender Projects screen you can limit your search by Language of Testimony Gender of Interviewee or My Project For more information on Projects please see the Saving Results to a Project section on page 12 To limit your search click on the down arrow to the right of the desired choice box select the desired language gender or project and click next About the Shoah Foundation Registration Search Search History Projects SiteMap Help Feed
26. enu and click SAVE O Existing Project New Project Quick Search Bedzin ghetto hunger cancel For this example type in a name for the project that identifies the search results such as Quick Search Bedzin ghetto hunger and then click save The project Quick Search Bedzin ghetto hunger is then added to your list of projects as shown below which you can later access by clicking Projects on the menu bar along the top of any page About the Shoah Foundation Registration Search Search History Projects SiteMap Help Feedback E mg SE AZAN ME away eel Projects allows you to bookmark and save testimonies and segments The Projects are listed by the date each was created To view the contents of a project highlight an itern below and click NEXT vif vouwidiltecondusta or double click an itern search of the testimonies within a project click Search To create a new project click New withm project You will have the opportunity to narrow 3 your search by project name Date Created Project Name on the Language Gender 01 19 2006 To permanently remove a project highlight the itern and click Delete People Search Jack Lewin Project screen 01 19 2006 Quick Search Bedzin ghetto hunger delete search within project next Copyright 2001 2005 Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation Version 4 05 0000 E 12 To see the results that are saved in a
27. ere you can save the results in an existing project or in a new project For more information on Projects please see the Saving Results to a Project section on page 12 For our example type in a name for the project that identifies the search results such as Bio Search Bedzin Ghetto amp Hiding and then click save The project Bio Search Bedzin Ghetto amp Hiding is then added to your list of projects which you can later access by clicking Projects on the menu bar at the top of any page 25 Global Keywords Search Global Keywords Search allows users to search for segments of testimonies that discuss specific topics using more than 30 000 geographic and experiential keywords Click Global Keywords Search on the main Search screen to begin this search About the Shoah Foundation Registration Search Search History Projects SiteMap Help Feedback GLOBAL KEYWORDS SEARCH es ae To browse for keywords click on a subject in bold red e g cultural and social life After you select your Search History E 3 eg Y 7 i keyword s click next to conduct your search Language Gender Projects starts with Keyword amp Definition barter in the camps used in 1519 testimonies Search Results O exact match Segments 0 search for Keywords EA Trade or exchange of various items in the camps Keyword Choices Search Type Root OR retrieves any segment L academic life for any selected Keywords 3 cultural and social
28. es of nearly 52 000 Holocaust eyewitnesses in 56 countries and in 32 languages The Shoah Foundation archive is unique in its geographic scope and content providing an invaluable educational resource for researchers and scholars in many disciplines educators from schools and universities curators from museums and institutions documentary filmmakers and others all from many countries throughout the world Today the Shoah Foundation s mission is to overcome prejudice intolerance and bigotry and the suffering they cause through the educational use of the Foundation s visual history testimonies To this end the Foundation preserves and provides access to the archive builds and supports educational programs and develops educational products based on the testimonies The Shoah Foundation archive includes testimonies from nine survivor and witness experience groups As the majority of interviews were conducted with Jewish Holocaust survivors that experience group is listed first followed by an alphabetical listing of the other experience groups Jewish Survivors Interviewees who were targeted for persecution under laws and or policies against the Jews Homosexual Survivors Interviewees who were targeted for persecution based on their homosexuality or suspected homosexuality Jehovah s Witness Survivors Interviewees who were targeted for persecution based on their religious convictions and or expression of those convictions as Jeh
29. estimonies that include any or all of the experiences below select Yes ewish ourvivors 5 aa Cc on those that apply If you would like to see testimonies that do not include any or all of the Criteria experiences below select No on those that apply Ghettos 5 To bypass this option click NEXT Testimonies 275 AND v rae f T z 3 Went into hiding 2 Member of under ground resistance or Hiding Flight Resistance Forced death Marches Testimonies Language Gender Projects No 3 Fled from Nazi controlled territory 4 Forced death marches J partisan group s v Search Results 275 i Testimonies new search back reset next On the left of the screen in the Search History column you can see that the search for testimonies of interviewees who were confined in the Bedzin ghetto yielded 275 results You can also see an AND OR choice box in the left hand column where you can choose to do an AND or OR search between multiple criteria Click the down arrow to the right of the AND OR choice box and select AND or OR from the list The choice box defaults to an AND search For our example leave the choice box set to AND Thus we will search for testimonies of Jewish survivors who were both incarcerated in the Bedzin ghetto and who went into hiding during their Holocaust experience 23 Hiding Flight Resistance Forced death Marches Search On th
30. he Visual History Archive you will be directed to the Logon screen which is shown below On the Logon screen you must enter your Username and Password and click LOG ON If you do not have a Username and Password you must create your own personal Username and Password To create your own Username and Password click click here to register and fill in the appropriate information You should choose a Username and Password that you will easily remember By registering you will be able to access your saved search results called projects at a later time Search Search History Projects SiteMap Help Feedback VISUAL HISTORY ARCHIVE REGISTRATION The VISUAL HISTORY ARCHIVE provides an opportunity to e Find the testimony of a specific person e View entire testimonies as well as segments of testimonies e Search for testimonies of people within nine specific experiences i e Jewish Survivors War Crimes Trials Participants etc e Conduct a search based on an extensive list of keywords Special Features e Search by name experience and keywords through the records of the entire archive e Track your projects and bookmark testimonies If you are new to the VISUAL HISTORY ARCHIVE click here to register All registered information is confidential If you have registered previously enter your usernarne and password below and click LOG ON Username Password Minimum System Requirements PC with Pentium 3 or 4
31. hrase O with at least one of the words new search back reset next Copyright 2001 2005 Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation Version v405 Enter one or more search terms of interest in the text box Valid search terms can include personal names indexing terms and their synonyms and numbers representing interview codes Select the desired search type using the radio buttons for with all of the words with the exact phrase or with at least one of the words The search type defaults to with all of the words so if you enter more than one term the VHA will search for individual testimonies whose associated cataloguing and indexing data contain all the entered terms In other words selecting the search type with all of the words performs an AND search between the entered terms If you select the search type with the exact phrase the VHA will search for individual testimonies whose associated cataloguing and indexing data contain the entered phrase If you select the search type with at least one of the words the VHA will search for individual testimonies whose associated cataloguing and indexing data contain any of the words In other words selecting the search type with at least one of the words performs an OR search between the entered terms Note Depending on the terms you enter in the Quick Search your search may return more results than are easily managed therefore it is usually best to specify a more li
32. ialobrzegi Poland Ghetto Bialystok Poland Ghetto Biecz Poland Ghetto Bielsko Biala Poland Ghetto Bilgoray Poland Ghetto o To Type Ahead 22 The highlighted names will then be added to the Selected Keywords box Click next to continue the search Note If you search for more than one ghetto an OR search is performed which means that returned results will include all testimonies whose interviewees were incarcerated in any of the ghettos To continue the example highlight Bedzin Poland Ghetto in the Keyword Choices box and click Add This will add the Bedzin ghetto to the Selected Keywords Click next to continue the search Specify an AND or OR Search When you select multiple categories of search criteria in a Biographical Search By Experience Group you can specify an AND or OR search between criteria searches In our example we chose to search on the criteria categories Ghettos and Hiding Flight Resistance Forced death Marches We completed the search for testimonies of interviewees who were confined in the Bedzin ghetto and have now advanced to the Hiding Flight Resistance Forced death Marches search screen as shown below About the Shoah Foundation Registration Search Search History Projects SiteMap Help Feedback BIOGRAPHICAL SEARCH JEWISH SURVIVORS Search History Hiding Flight Resistance Forced death Marches Experience 3 2 TPRI ps h Survi If you would like to see t
33. ilable for viewing You will not see this status frequently because almost all testimonies have been digitized Testimonies that are not digitized require special requests You can contact a USC Shoah Foundation Institute staff member by email at vhi acc college usc edu if you want to request digitization of a testimony Digitization requests may require several weeks to fulfill To proceed to the viewing screen click on the photo icon or the name of the desired interviewee Note Even if a testimony is not available for immediate viewing you can still view the associated cataloguing and indexing data for the testimony on the viewing screen as long as the testimony has been catalogued and indexed 11 Saving Results to a Project From the results screen you can save the results of your search to a project so you can return to the saved results at a later time To save the results for this example to a project click the save to project button When you click save to project you will be taken to a screen as shown below where you can save the results in an existing project or in a new project When you save testimony or segment results to an existing project they are appended to the existing file they do not replace it About the Shoah Foundation Registration Search Search History Projects Site Map Help Feedback p EE A Bids i PROJEC e a at To save these search results to an existing project choose a project from the pull down m
34. life i j 3 discrimination and persecution E economic life 3 Abraham Puls amp Sons Selected Keywords Lj agricultural training L apprenticeships only with AND search 3 barter Scars Se gment Range searches for Lj barter in Forced labor battalions all selected Keywords L barter in hiding lt lt Remove lt lt a 3 barter in prisons A barter in the camps ae i WLan S Deg Hens 3 barter in the ghettos aa barter in the refugee camps Sor L black market activities O AND entire testimony blackmail AND retrieves segments which include all selected Keywords within 1 segment within 10 segments within 15 segments consecutively bribery bribery in forced labor battalions Segment Range new search back reset next Copyright 2001 2005 Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation Version 4 05 0000 The Global Keywords Search screen as shown above offers several important features as discussed in detail below which help users select one or more indexing keywords to use to search for specific segments of testimony Browsing Keywords The Keyword Choices box on the lower left side of the screen as shown above presents a complete list of available indexing keywords that are categorized under several broad topics To browse for keywords of interest click on a topic shown in bold red and the topic will open to show all keywords related to that topic As shown in the example abov
35. miting search type of with all of the words or with the exact phrase Quick Search Example As an example enter the search terms Bedzin ghetto and hunger in the text box separated by spaces as illustrated below The search type defaults to with all of the words Click next to begin the search Note The search is not case sensitive About the Shoah Foundation Registration Search Search History Projects Site Map Help Feedback R CH Development of the QUICK SEARCH was funded by the Leo Rosner Foundation Search History The QUICK SEARCH is a free text field that allows the user to enter search terms of interest that may appear as personal names indexing keywords or their synonyms or numbers representing interview Search String codes The search will reveal testimonies in which the search term matched a personal name and or a Testimonies 0 keyword or its synonym and or the interview code The search results lists will display with the matching Language Gender Projects search terrns and associated testimonies Please note If the search term matched a synonym of a keyword the synonym will display in the search results list but the viewing screen will display the preferred label for Search Results NE j ae pe E the keyword as indexing and or cataloguing information Please see the FAQ under the Help Menu for Testimonies 0 s more information To search enter your search term s below separate multiple terms with a space
36. nguage Gender Projects Search Results estimonies 0 Un spe ye Pees Bae reply ee ee a nee ee ae MED e o E Testimonies For those experience group with fewer than 60 records Hornosexual Survivors Survivors of Eugenics Policies and War Crimes Trials Participants there is no Search Screen You are taken directly to the Search Results Screen O Jewish Survivors O Jehovah s Witness Survivors O Homosexual Survivors O Liberators amp Liberation Witnesses O Political Prisoners O Rescuers and Aid Providers O Sinti and Roma Survivors O Survivors of Eugenics Policies O War Crimes Trials Participants new search back reset next As an example choose Jewish Survivors and click next Select Categories of Search Criteria On the next screen as shown on the following page you can choose to search on nine different categories of criteria relevant to Jewish survivors You can select multiple criteria simultaneously To search specific categories of criteria click on the check boxes next to the desired categories or on the category names themselves and click next 20 About the Shoah Foundation Registration Search Search History Projects SiteMap Help Feedback BIOGRAPHICAL SEARCH JEWISH SURVIVORS st isis Jewish Survivors Experience Definition Interviewees who were targeted for persecution under laws and or policies against Jewish Survivors the Jews Instructions Check the boxes of those criteria listed below th
37. on of a testimony click the click here link and follow the instructions on the pop up message 17 Request Video This video is available but must be transferred to your site s local cache server to be viewed To request a transfer click Request Video Transfers may take up to 43 hours You will receive an automatic email telling you when the video is available or if the video transfer failed The video for this testimony is not currently available To request this testimony click here People Search Click People Search on the main Search screen to advance to the People Search screen which is shown below About the Shoah Foundation Registration Search Search History Projects SiteMap Help Feedback PEOPLE SEARCH Search History The PEOPLE SEARCH enables you to search the archive by name Name Testimonies To conduct the best search for a specific testimony try entering the last name and the first initial a er of the first name You may also try any other names including maiden names aliases nicknames anguage Gender Projects 2 DA DEF uag and or false names The interface will search all narnes but only the preferred name given by the Search Results interviewee will appear Testimonies 0 e g Daisy Hirsch maiden name 2 Search result John Smith preferred name To search enter the Name below and click NEXT First Name starts with O exact match Last Name O contains
38. ovah s Witnesses Liberators and Liberation Witnesses Interviewees who participated in the liberation of concentration camps and or interviewees who entered concentration camps immediately after liberation due to assignments in or around camps Political Prisoners Interviewees who wete targeted for persecution based on their political convictions and or expression of those convictions Rescuers and Aid Providers Interviewees who rescued those targeted for persecution and or interviewees who were involved with the planning and implementation of aid programs during and after the war Sinti and Roma Survivors Interviewees who were targeted for persecution under laws and or policies against the Sinti and Roma Gypsies Survivors of Eugenics Policies Interviewees who were targeted for persecution under eugenics laws and or policies War Crimes Trials Participants Interviewees who were involved in war crimes trials after the war The Visual History Archive VHA Search and Viewing Tool The Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive VHA is a software tool that allows users to search data and view digital video in the Shoah Foundation archive The VHA provides a means for users to identify both whole testimonies of relevance as well as specific segments within testimonies that relate to their area of interest Currently the VHA provides access to data and video for over 50 000 testimonies Most of the testimonies in the archive have
39. r testimonies in the VHA is available on your campus via a local cache Testimonies that are on your local cache can be viewed immediately however since your local cache may only hold a few hundred digitized testimonies at once most testimonies will not be available immediately While video may not be available immediately for every digitized testimony data for all 51 000 catalogued and 48 000 indexed testimonies is available immediately As explained below the Video Availability status on the Search Results screen will indicate one of three statuses for each testimony Viewable Now Viewable w i 48 Hts or Not Yet Viewable Viewable Now The status Viewable Now means that the digitized video is available on your local cache and is ready for immediate viewing To view the testimony click on the photo icon or the name of the desired interviewee Viewable w i 48 Hrs The status Viewable w i 48 Hts means that a testimony has been digitized but the video is not loaded on your local cache You can request to have the testimony loaded from the Foundation s central digital video storage location to your local cache on the viewing screen It may take up to 48 hours to load the requested testimony on your local cache To proceed to the viewing screen click on the photo icon or the name of the desired interviewee Not Yet Viewable The status Not Yet Viewable means that a testimony has not been digitized and that the video is not yet ava
40. re information About the Shoah Foundation Registration Search Search History Projects Site Map Help Feedback Search Results Sort by Last Name Viewing Records 1 to 5 of 46 Name Sha ul oren Language Hebrew Search History ous Experience Jewish Survivor Video Availability Viewable w i 48 Hrs Search String Bedzin Poland Testimonies 46 Name Elias Burstyn Language English a AS a Experience Jewish Survivor Video Availability Viewable w i 48 Hrs Search Results E Bedzin Poland Ghetto Testimonies 46 Name Ruth Crane Language English Experience Jewish Survivor Video Availability Viewable w i 48 Hrs Bedzin Poland Ghetto Name Belah Danan Language Hebrew Experience Jewish Survivor Video Availability Viewable Now hunger in the ghettos Name Miha el Dreksler Language Hebrew Experience Jewish Survivor Video Availability Viewable w i 48 Hrs Bedzin Poland Ghetto new search save to project back next Copyright 2001 2005 Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation Version w405 Sorting Search Results If you have many results you can choose to sort the results list by Last Name Video Availability First Name Video Availability Language or Experience Last Name First Name To sort the results click the down arrow to the right of the Sort by list box Video Availability and select the desired sort criteria Lanquage Experience 10 Video Availability Status Digitized video fo
41. re quickly to a keyword that you do know in the Keyword Choices list instead of manually browsing to the keyword Type the keyword in the search text box and then click Search for Keywords The search type will default to starts with and the specified keyword will quickly be highlighted in the Keyword Choices list 2 Selecting Keywords Once you have located a keyword either by browsing or searching on which you want to search and highlighted it in the Keyword Choices list you must then add the keyword to the Selected Keywords box The keywords that you add to the Selected Keywords box become your search terms To add a keyword to the Selected Keywords box highlight the keyword in the Keyword Choices list and then click Add As an example add the keywords thirst during deportations and deportation from M t szalka Hungary Ghetto to the Selected Keywords box as illustrated below Keyword Choices deportation From Mak w Poland Ghetto La deportation From Mariampol Poland Ghetto 3 deportation From Marinovka Ukraine USSR Gh 3 deportation From Marki Poland Ghetto pen deportation From M t szalka Hungary Ghetto e 3 deportation from Mateszalka 3 deportation From Mez cs t Hungary Ghetto 3 deportation From Mez k vesd Hungary Ghette A deportation From Mez t r Hungary Ghetto A deportation From Miastkovka Ukraine USSR GH 3 deportation From Michaliszki Poland Ghetto LA deportation From
42. ready selected in the Project list box which means that your keyword search will search the testimonies within that project only Of course you can also narrow your search by language and gender Language Gender Projects To narrow your search by Language and or Gender and or Projects choose an item from the pull down menufs and click NEXT To bypass these options and go directly to your search results click NEXT cere anes Gender of Interviewee All we luly Project Bio Search Jewish Survivors 4 TIP Have you created a project in Projects If so you can narrow the search on testimonies in Projects by choosing a project name from the pull down list To continue our example click next and you will see on the Search Results screen that 4 segments match the search criteria You can also search within the results of a saved project without starting on the Projects list screen You can begin a People Search Biographical Search by Experience Group or Global Keywords Search and then limit your search within a previously saved project on the Language Gender Projects screen This will save you the time of navigating to the Projects list screen first 31
43. running at 400MHZ eMac iMac or Power Mac running OS X 256 MB Memory 256 MB Memory Windows XP 2000 Safari 1 1 Internet Connection Broadband Only Copyright 2001 2005 Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation Version 4 05 0000 Search Once you successfully log on the main Search screen shown below will appear You can select from four types of searches on this screen Quick Search People Search Biographical Search by Experience Group and Global Keywords Search About the Shoah Foundation Registration Search Search History Projects SiteMap Help Feedback ARCH QUICK SEARCH Find testimonies using a free text field to search on names keywords and synonyms or interview codes QUICK search PEOPLE SEARCH Find a testimony of a specific interviewee by name or find a testimony that refers to a specific person by name PEOPLE search BIOGRAPHICAL SEARCH BY EXPERIENCE GROUP Find testimonies using biographical information BIOGRAPHICAL search GLOBAL KEYWORDS SEARCH Find testimony segments using keywords GLOBAL keywords search Quick Search allows you to search the Shoah Foundation archive by entering one or more terms of interest in a free text field This search functions much like an internet search engine Valid search terms can include personal names indexing terms and their synonyms and numbers representing interview codes This search provides testimony and segment level re
44. sults from about 51 000 interviews People Search allows you to search for a specific name among all names in the Shoah Foundation archive The archive includes names of people that were recorded in the Pre Interview Questionnaires and names of people that were mentioned during the interviews if the testimony was indexed You can find a testimony for a specific interviewee or a testimony that refers to a specific person This search provides testimony level results from about 51 000 interviews Biographical Search by Experience Group allows you to search basic biographical information including city and country of birth religious identity places of incarceration such as camps and ghettos and so on for interviewees categorized within nine different Experience Groups This search provides testimony level results from about 51 000 interviews Global Keywords Search allows you to search for segments of testimonies that discuss specific topics using more than 30 000 geographic and experiential keywords Although the majority of the keywords are related to geographic locations a rich collection of keywords have been assigned during indexing to identify important or common aspects of interviewees diverse experiences Experiential keywords include keywords like living conditions in the camps contact with loved ones renewed and thousands of others The Global Keywords Search provides segment level results from about 49 000 interviews
45. tes text box in the middle of the screen and click save 13 The Viewing Screen To continue the previous example click on the photo icon or the name of Belah Danan in the search results You will be taken to the main viewing screen as shown below About the Shoah Foundation Right click on your mouse for additional video controls e ZOOM adjusts the size of the video screen e VOLUME adjusts the sound To start video click here All Keywords in this Segment b All People in this Segment Biographical Profile All People in this Testimony Donor Recognition Registration Search Search History Projects Belah Danan Site Map Help Feedback SEARCH VIEWING SCREEN Choose One 4 Video Slide Show Keywords for Segment 1 Keywords for Segment 2 Kaunas Lithuania Lithuania 1939 September 1 December 31 Lithuama 1918 November 11 1939 August 31 Tepe Ml Maximize Minimize Data Next Segment Previous Segment Back to Project Choose New Search Save to Projects Copyright 2001 2005 Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation Version 4 05 0000 The main viewing screen has the same functionality for all search modes The main functions available on the viewing screen are discussed below In this example since this testimony is already loaded in the local cache the video automatically begins playing The video will appear and play in the dark area at the center of the screen
46. untry highlight an item s below and click NEXT To browse a complete list of ghettos bypass this option and click NEXT ghettos ghettos in China verified ghettos in Czechoslovakia unverified ghettos in Czechoslovakia verified ghettos in Greece verified ghettos in Hungary unverified ghettos in Hungary verified ghettos in Latvia verified ghettos in Lithuania unverified ghettos in Lithuania verified ghettos in Poland unverified ghettos in Poland verified ghettos in Romania unverified ghettos in Romania verified ghettos in the Netherlands verified 21 On the Ghettos search screen you can choose to search for ghettos in one of two ways Type a ghetto name in the text box near the top of the screen select the desired search type using the radio buttons for starts with exact match or contains and click next The search type defaults to starts with so if you enter just the first few characters of a ghetto name such as Brze your search yields ghettos with names like Brzesko Poland Ghetto and Brzezany Poland Ghetto In most cases it is best to select starts with or contains as your search type Browse a list of all ghettos within a specific country by highlighting an entry in the display box at the bottom of the screen and clicking next You can browse a complete list of ghettos by clicking next without highlighting any entry As an example to browse a list of ghettos
47. vious searches Thus you could save the results of a Biographical Search By Experience Group to a project and then you could search for a subset of those results in which a specific keyword was indexed using a Global Keywords Search This is very helpful when you identify a large set of testimonies on a possible subject but you are only interested in a particular subset For a complete discussion of saving results to a project see Saving Results to a Project on page 12 To view a list of your saved projects click Projects along the top of any screen Once you click Projects the Projects list screen appears similar to the one shown below About the Shoah Foundation Registration Search Search History Projects Site Map Help Feedback A eg PROJEC A oxy tony pad Projects allows you to bookmark and save testirnonies and segments The Projects are listed by the date each was created To view the contents of a project highlight an item below and click NEXT e or double click an item TIP If you wish to conduct a or double click an item l search of ihe testimonies To permanently remove a project highlight the item and click Delete within a project click Search To create a new project click New withm project You will have the opportunity to narrow R B your search by project name Date Created Project Name Testimonies on the Language Gender SUL People Search Jack Lewin 4 Project screen Bio Search
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