The Holocaust Oral History Archive of Gratz College seeks to record, preserve, and make available to scholars and researchers the testimonies of those who experienced the Nazi era, 1933-1945, in ghettos, camps, labor brigades, resistance forces, national armies, in hiding, and in rescue operations. The archives are dedicated to recording the cultural life of Pre-Hitler European Jewry.

Today, the Archives comprises one of the largest collections of audio-taped testimony in the United States, including interviews with more than 800 survivors, liberators, rescuers, and other witnesses to Nazi persecution and extermination. Special groupings include "Kindertransport" children sheltered in England, the 1985 Gathering of Holocaust Survivors, the 1991 and 1999 Rickshaw Reunions of Shanghai Survivors, and the Vilna Ghetto Fighters.