The Oral History Centre (OHC) released 181 interviews in 2024.

Of these 181 interviews, 111 were conducted in English, 65 were conducted in Mandarin, 3 were conducted in Malay, and 2 were conducted in Chinese dialects.

This year, our collection was enriched by notable community-centric projects, including:
32 interviews from the Lianhe Zaobao 100th Anniversary Oral History Project, making it the largest project from our new releases.
24 interviews from Community-Driven Oral History Project, which continues to be one of the Oral History Centre’s headliners,
17 interviews from the My Community: Cultural Mapping at Tanglin Halt, donated from non-profit organisation My Community, and
13 interviews from the Punggol Oral History Project, a co-creation initiative led by the Oral History Centre at Punggol Regional Library.

View the entire list at: nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/oral_history_interviews/new-releases.

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Many interviews with notable individuals were released in 2024. Here are some quotes from the interviews:

"So what to me is more important is that health is the primary issue, because if you don't have health, you don't have strength and you do not have the ability to work with your male partner or your female partner." - Patricia Hon, pioneer ballerina

"Purely, I was just looking at the performance and my world was very small. You know my world was just what happened on the water that day. In the past couple of hours I had nothing else on my mind after I had processed a little bit. I came back to the beach and this small world opened up and I saw everything around. I saw the happiness that I had been able to bring, the pride that I had been able to bring, the emotions shared and the magnitude of what had happened that day and the reception of what it was, and I think that really moved me." - Maximilian Maeder, former Kite Athlete

"COVID-19 was a trigger and an opportunity. What I mean is that we have developing certain principles. Principles, values, outlook for the community. COVID-19 came to provide that opportunities for us to see those values in action, those qualities in action, and to then polish it further and to move on, right. And Singapore, indeed, it's unique." - Ustaz Dr Mohd Hannan, Deputy Mufti (MUIS)

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Click here to listen to extracts from highlights added to our collection!