[1] Given the sensitive relationship between Partition stories and Hindu–Muslim relations, only a small portion of the Archive's collection has been released to the public in edited form.
[3] It also announced to launch a book with 4000 oral testimonies and 1000 photographs illustrating the voices of the partition survivors spread across various countries in South Asia and elsewhere.
[4] The organization started in 2010 when Dr Guneeta Singh Bhalla[5][6] began recording video interviews with elder Partition witnesses throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and was formalized in 2011.
"[13] According to Dr Bhalla, "workshop attendees who successfully submit their first oral history interview, and it matches The Archive’s standards with its nine-point criteria, are certified as ‘Citizen Historian’ volunteers.
The primary objective of the Archive is to collect the "vanishing history of Punjab and South Asia through crowdsourced lived memories.