The project for this semester’s Projects in Moving Image and Sound Archiving course was to create an audiovisual archive in partnership with the Archives of the American Field Service (AFS). AFS can trace its origins to 1914 shortly after the outbreak of World War I, when young Americans living in Paris volunteered as ambulance drivers at the American Hospital of Paris. During the Second World War, AFS ambulance drivers were one of the earliest responders to the Nazi concentration camps. The students digitized, cataloged, and designed a digital archive that featured ambulance drivers discussing their work during WWII. Most notable in this collection are drivers accounts of their activity in responding to the Bergen-Belson Concentration camp in present day Belgium.

AFS- American Field Service - Oral History Project

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