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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 1995 9(2):192-207; doi:10.1093/hgs/9.2.192
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Learning from Survivors: The Yale Testimony Project

Geoffrey H. Hartman

Yale University New Haven, Connecticut

The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimionies at Yale University, founded in 1981, is dedicated to recording the experiences of those who survived the Holocaust and of others not directly persecuted who witnessed aspects of the genocide. Videotaping in England, France, Belgium, Slovakia, Yugoslavia, Israel and Argentina as well as In the USA, the Yale Archive may be one of the largest audiovisual efforts of its kind, an "oral testimony" project that as of December 1994 had gathered approxmately 3300 witness accounts. Acknowledging the educational value of television, the Archive is planning for the rest of the 1990s, the last decade in which those who had a direct knowledge of the events of 1933 to 1945 can be recorded in significant numbers.

The author of this essay reflects on what he has learnt during his time with the Archive. A literacy scholarm he believes that these video testimonies can play a crucial role in helping to "save the imagination from bstraction" (W.B.Yeats) by transmitting in the form of personal stories the human tragedy caused by the Nazi crimes, whose effects continue to be felt.


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