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Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a “museum object” in the form of video interviews with individuals remembering events of historical importance. Such video testimonies now not only are part of the collections and research activities of museums, but become deeply intertwined with narrative and exhibit design. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes for the first time this new global process of “musealisation” of testimony, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of the transformation of video testimonies into exhibits.

Video tapes in historiography. --- Oral history. --- Historical museums --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Collective memory. --- Holocaust survivors --- Exhibitions. --- Personal narratives. --- Historiography. --- Interviews --- Survivors, Holocaust --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- History --- Museums --- Victims --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- History museums --- Oral biography --- Oral tradition --- Historiography --- Methodology --- video exhibits --- testimony --- public memory --- public history --- Bergen-Belsen concentration camp --- Imperial War Museum --- The Holocaust --- Yad Vashem Archive