The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, selected SAMMA to migrate more than 4,600 hours of videotaped survivor testimonies from analog tape to digital files. The recordings are a collection of interviews produced by the Museum to preserve first-hand accounts from the dwindling population of Holocaust survivors.

The migration project began in late 2007. The final product will be one high resolution and two low resolution digital files of each master tape, accompanied by technical metadata describing the condition of the media item and the migration process.

The interviews will reside on the Museum’s computer network and are accessible to visitors who wish to view them. The international reach of the project is reflected in the nations of residence of the interview subjects: the United States, France, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Poland, the former Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Latvia, the Netherlands, Israel, Belarus and the Ukraine.