USC Shoah Foundation Thesaurus (Abridged)

[Pages:191]USC Shoah Foundation Thesaurus (Abridged)

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captivity........................................................................................................................................... 4 culture ........................................................................................................................................... 11 daily life ......................................................................................................................................... 13 discrimination ............................................................................................................................... 20 discrimination responses .............................................................................................................. 22 feelings and thoughts ................................................................................................................... 31 forced labor experiences .............................................................................................................. 36 government functions................................................................................................................... 39 health ............................................................................................................................................ 45 liberation and post-liberation life ................................................................................................. 48 mistreatment and death ............................................................................................................... 53 movement..................................................................................................................................... 58 organizations................................................................................................................................. 89 people ......................................................................................................................................... 118 politics and economics................................................................................................................ 162 refugee experiences.................................................................................................................... 169 religion and philosophy............................................................................................................... 172 still and moving images............................................................................................................... 178 world histories ............................................................................................................................ 187

Containing thousands of genocide-related concepts and experiences, the USC Shoah Foundation Thesaurus is one of the first of its kind. It lists the indexing terms used to describe the video testimonies and arranges them hierarchically under broad headings. These terms have been assigned directly to digital time codes within testimonies where the specific topics are discussed, in much the same way that book index entries specify the page numbers where topics are covered.

The Thesaurus evolved over time and grew in volume as the testimonies were indexed. While some indexing terms have been drawn from existing controlled vocabularies, the depth of content within the collection required the creation of local indexing terms to facilitate access at a more precise level. For example, experiential terms such as "corpse disposal forced labor" and "intergenerational Holocaust impact" were created to reflect the depth and unfortunate commonality of experience brought forth in testimonies of survivors of the Holocaust. Indexing terms also include cities, villages, and other geographical locations--"Oswiecim (Poland)," for example--as well as place names such as "Auschwitz II-Birkenau (Poland : Concentration Camp)." The structure of the USC Shoah Foundation Thesaurus is based on the ANSI/NISO Z39.19 Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Thesauri, which employs a hierarchical arrangement to define the relationships between indexing terms. Although the indexing of the testimonies is virtually complete, the Thesaurus remains a work in progress and will continue to be refined and updated as needed.

Because the Thesaurus currently contains more than 50,000 indexing terms, most of which are geographic in nature, we have abridged this document to make it more manageable in size--excluding the geographic indexing terms, the definitions and scope notes, as well as synonyms and quasisynonyms assigned as equivalent but non-preferred terms.

Please note 1) Unverified indexing terms, indicating that the place or organization could not be verified in the authoritative reference sources used at the time that the keyword was created, are preceded by (u); 2) "Generic" indexing terms, created when there is more than one location with the same name, are followed by (generic); 3) Some terms that are not indexing terms are included as place holders in the hierarchical structure to facilitate the organization of the controlled vocabulary; 4) Specific indexing terms included under a more general topic are indented to demonstrate their relationship to the broader term; 5) To save space in this document, [...] indicates omitted indexing terms; 6) Indexing terms may be listed under more than one broader topic when appropriate.

Terms of Use The University of Southern California, through its USC Shoah Foundation, owns the intellectual property rights, including copyrights, to its Interviews, Metadata, the Visual History Archive, and the USC Shoah Foundation Thesaurus. All rights are reserved by the USC Shoah Foundation. The Metadata is the USC Shoah Foundation's indexing and cataloguing data. The Visual History Archive is a software tool that provides access to the Interviews and Metadata.

Any use, other than referenced above, or publication of data from the USC Shoah Foundation Thesaurus in excess of "Fair Use" as specified under 17 USC ? 107 and "Fair Practice" as specified under Article 10 of the Berne Convention, requires the prior written permission from the USC Shoah Foundation.

For more information about the USC Shoah Foundation Thesaurus, please email: vhahelp@usc.edu.

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Appell camp Appell ghetto Appell prison Appell

arrests aid giver arrests anti-homosexual arrests anti-Jewish arrests escapee capture intelligentsia arrests Jehovah's Witness arrests political opponent arrests Sinti and Roma arrests

camp experiences camp adaptation methods camp barter camp begging camp betrayals camp bribery camp smuggling camp stealing camp blood extraction camp brutal treatment camp sexual assaults camp children camp clothing camp shoes camp uniforms camp corpses camp corpse cremations camp corpse disposal camp cultural activities camp currency camp deaths camp child deaths camp suicides camp suicide attempts camp diseases camp epidemics camp education camp Jewish education camp study camp escapes camp escape attempts camp executions camp mass executions camp facilities camp barracks camp brothels

camp crematoria camp hospitals camp latrines camp showers camp first impressions camp food camp food acquisition camp food sharing camp hunger camp thirst camp forced labor camp funerals camp hiding and evasion camp humiliation camp killings camp liberation camp liquidations camp living conditions camp environmental conditions camp housing conditions camp infestations camp sanitary conditions camp medical care camp abortions camp childbearing camp quarantines camp medical experiments camp military medical experiments camp racial medical experiments camp sterilization medical experiments camp menstruation camp orchestras camp personal property seizure camp political activities camp prisoner identification camp prisoner insignia camp prisoner marking prisoner identification numbers prisoner tattoos camp prisoner physical conditions camp injuries camp malnutrition camp procedures camp Appell camp intake procedures camp selections camp punishments camp religious objects camp Christian religious objects camp Christian religious texts camp Jewish religious objects

camp Jewish religious texts camp religious observances

camp Christian religious observances camp Jehovah's Witness religious observances camp Jewish religious observances camp prayers

camp Jehovah's Witness prayers camp Jewish prayers camp resistance camp covert activities camp covert communications camp covert economic activities camp covert movement camp covert weapons procurement camp underground publications camp uprisings Sobibor Uprising (October 14, 1943) Sonderkommando Uprising (Auschwitz II-Birkenau, October 7, 1944) Treblinka II Uprising (August 2, 1943) camp rumors camp sexual activities camp social relations camp family interactions camp marriages camp time awareness camp-related aid giving camp-related psychological reactions internment camp administration internment camp working life enforced residence ghetto experiences ghetto abortions ghetto adaptation methods ghetto barter ghetto begging ghetto betrayals ghetto bribery ghetto looting ghetto smuggling ghetto stealing ghetto agricultural work ghetto brutal treatment ghetto sexual assaults ghetto childbearing ghetto childcare ghetto children ghetto clothing ghetto shoes ghetto corpses ghetto corpse cremations ghetto corpse disposal

ghetto cultural activities ghetto currency ghetto deaths

ghetto child deaths ghetto suicides

ghetto suicide attempts ghetto diseases

ghetto epidemics ghetto education

ghetto Jewish education ghetto study ghetto environmental conditions ghetto escapes ghetto escape attempts ghetto executions ghetto mass executions ghetto external contact ghetto facilities ghetto brothels ghetto businesses ghetto hospitals ghetto libraries ghetto workshops Theresienstadt ghetto crematorium Theresienstadt ghetto latrines ghetto family interactions ghetto first impressions ghetto food ghetto food acquisition ghetto food sharing ghetto hunger ghetto thirst ghetto forced labor ghetto funerals ghetto hiding and evasion ghetto humiliation ghetto inhabitant identification ghetto insignia ghetto passes ghetto inhabitant physical condition ghetto injuries ghetto malnutrition ghetto Judenr?te ghetto killings ghetto liberation ghetto liquidations ghetto living conditions ghetto housing conditions ghetto infestations ghetto sanitary conditions ghetto marriages

ghetto medical care ghetto blood extraction ghetto quarantines

ghetto menstruation ghetto orchestras ghetto personal property seizure ghetto political activities ghetto procedures

ghetto Appell ghetto selections Theresienstadt ghetto intake procedures ghetto punishments ghetto releases ghetto religious objects ghetto Jewish religious objects ghetto Jewish religious texts ghetto religious observances ghetto Christian religious observances ghetto Jewish religious observances ghetto prayers

ghetto Jewish prayers ghetto resistance

ghetto covert activities ghetto covert communications ghetto covert economic activities ghetto covert movement ghetto covert weapons procurement

ghetto underground publications ghetto uprisings

Bialystok Ghetto Uprising (August 1943) Czestochowa Ghetto Uprising (January 1943) Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 19--May 16, 1943) ghetto rumors ghetto sealing ghetto service work ghetto sexual activities ghetto social relations ghetto time awareness ghetto-related aid giving ghetto-related psychological reactions ghettoization ghettoization preparations ghettoization procedures ghettos life numbers official ghetto publications Theresienstadt ghetto beautification hostage taking interrogations Judenh?user prison experiences

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