Fortunoff Archives
http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/
| About the Archive | Includes
introduction, history, and founders of the project. Started in 1979
& deposited at Yale in 1981, many scholars have used the collection,
which is comprised of 4,100 testimonies spanning 10,000 recorded hours
of videotape. Interviewees were willing individuals with first-hand
experience of the Nazi persecutions, including those in hiding, survivors,
bystanders, resistants, and liberators. Lawrence Langer used the collection
when researching & writing Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins
of Memory. |
| Excerpts from Testimonies | 9
excerpts from testimonies are included here: a Polish survivor from
Mlawa ghetto, a Belgian child who survived in hiding, a German witness
to Dachau, a Colonel who witnessed Mauthausen, a Czech survivor of Auschwitz,
a Dutch rescuer, a Polish survivor of Majdanek, Plaszow, Auschwitz,
German child survivor of Ravensbruck, a Gypsy survivor of Auschwitz,
Bergen-Belsen, Ravensbruck (testimony in German but translation is transcribed).
Listen to the audio testimony and see that the spoken words are transcribed
and highlighted so students can follow along. Clips are quite short.
Bios are a little longer. “A Must.” |
| Catalog & Research Guide | Archival
information and searching tips to view cataloged record. Additionally,
the second edition of the Guide to Yale University Library Holocaust
Video Testimonies provides summaries of 567 videotape testimonies
of Holocaust survivors and witnesses from the Fortunoff Archive. Cost
is $28.50 |
| Educational Resources | Videos
are available, grouped into three categories. thematic programs such
as survivors of St. Louis, survivors’ experience & effects
on own children; single-witness programs, some of which are longer versions
of the excerpts clips online; and general programs such as Survivors
Among Us, testimony from Boston & Hartford area survivors.
Two other videos from this category are About the Holocaust &
Forever Yesterday. Can be borrowed for around $30. |
| Publications | Related
offerings: books such as Witness: Voices from the Holocaust
($26), related PBS video ($26); newsletter to update about second phase
of project |
Provided on 3/27/04 by Your Cyber Web Guide, Sheila Hansen, USHMM Mandel Fellow, 2000-2001, Spearfish, South Dakota