Jack Voorzanger Archival Internship

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is proud to announce the 2025 Jack Voorzanger Archival Internship for graduate students in Archives, Library and Information Science, and related disciplines. The selected intern will work in the Simon Wiesenthal Center Archives, gaining hands-on experience in working with archival materials primarily relating to the Holocaust. 

DETAILS

The responsibilities of this internship will include scanning archival materials, entering information into databases, providing descriptions for archival records, conducting research, and other tasks as assigned by the archivist. The intern will be required to work on-site for 12 hours weekly, with two 6-hour shifts per week. The internship will consist of 250 hours of work to be completed in a roughly 21-week period between Monday, August 4, and Friday, December 26, 2025.

The intern will work with the archivist/internship supervisor to determine their schedule. Dependent on holiday closures, the intern may be asked to either adjust their schedule or extend their internship to meet the required number of hours for this position. All work will take place in the Simon Wiesenthal Center Archives, located at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, CA. 

Stipend: $5,000 to be paid in four installments. 

Academic credit: As determined by the student’s school. 

Qualifications: This internship is open to current students and recent graduates of graduate degree programs in Archives, Library and Information Science, and related disciplines. Knowledge of and experience in archival scanning and the processing of archival collections is highly desirable.

HOW TO APPLY

Email a resume, cover letter, and letter of recommendation to volunteer@museumoftolerance.com by Friday, June 30, 2025.

Recommenders can also send a letter directly to the email above if they so choose. 

ABOUT JACK VOORZANGER

Jack Voorzanger was a child survivor of the Holocaust who was born in the Netherlands. During the war, Voorzanger was hidden by an abusive man who also forced him to convert to Catholicism. Seventy-five members of Jack’s family were murdered during the Holocaust. After the war, Jack rebuilt his life and came to the United States. When he retired from his successful photo lab business, he volunteered at the SWC Archives, assisting with archival scanning of the collection as a dedicated volunteer for over 18 years. The Voorzanger family has generously endowed the Jack Voorzanger Archival Internship in his memory.