Leslie Swift has worked at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for almost 20 years, first in the Photo Archives and then in the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, which houses the Museum’s extensive collection of archival film from the Holocaust period. Since October 2014 she has served as Chief of the Film, Oral History, and Recorded Sound branch. She has performed archival research and acquisitions work in Germany, Austria, the UK, Russia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and the United States, and facilitated the acquisition of dozens of unique amateur films for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s collections. Together with Lindsay Zarwell, she co-authored an article about the Museum’s amateur film collections in “Abenteuer Alltag. Zur Archäologie des Amateurfilms” (2015), and a book chapter in “The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Its Outtakes” (2020) detailing the years-long preservation work that has led to the wide accessibility of the Claude Lanzmann SHOAH Collection. Leslie Swift has an undergraduate degree in history from Elmira College and a master’s degree in American Studies from the George Washington University.
Participation in Events
Pre-Kick-off MeetingMeeting Friday, 19.10.2018, 09:15 to Saturday, 20.10.2018, 18:00 |
Kick-off MeetingMeeting Wednesday, 27.02.2019, 09:15 to Friday, 01.03.2019, 20:00 |
Advanced DigitizationWorkshop Wednesday, 20.03.2019, 09:30 to Friday, 22.03.2019, 16:00 |
Consortium MeetingMeeting Tuesday, 23.02.2021, 15:00 to Wednesday, 24.02.2021, 19:00 |
VHH Research Seminar – Session 5: Soviet Filmed Atrocity Images on American Movie Screens, 1942–1945, and Some Partial Answers to the Questions of What, When, Where and By Whom?Research Seminar Tuesday, 15.06.2021, 18:00 to Tuesday, 15.06.2021, 20:00 |
Moving Images from the Archives. Historical Footage of Nazi Crimes in DocumentariesConference Sunday, 08.05.2022, 18:00 to Tuesday, 10.05.2022, 17:00 |
Participation in Videos
Thirty Years On: Considering Liberation Exhibits at the United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumMonday, 09.05.2022 |
