The oral history archive is a collection of accounts given by “the Time Witnesses” and recorded in audio and video formats. The accounts recorded inside and outside the Museum refer to events which took place in Poznań and the Wielkopolska region during World War II. In an inordinately touching way, prisoners of concentration camps, forced labourers, displaced persons and residents of the occupied Wielkopolska region report on events which happened between 1939–1945.

For several years, the department of research and education has been working on biographies collected in the Oral History Archive, owing to which a study of history – despite the passing of time – has become a “living” science.

Thanks to accounts from the Oral History Archive, the Museum can modernize the permanent exhibition and enrich it with multimedia elements. Visitors can decide themselves how long and how intensely they want to see the exhibition, whereas groups can learn the history of this place in a more thorough and interesting way.