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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Yale University's database contains around 4,500 video interviews with Holocaust survivors, totaling over 12,000 hours and in 22 languages. The interviewees talk about surviving in hiding and in the concentration and extermination camps, as well as about their experiences as resistance fighters and liberators. The interview method used in the videos places particular emphasis on allowing the survivors to structure their own narratives. The interviewees are thus seen as experts on their own life stories. The database is considered a pioneer of videotaped oral history.

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Resource id

102366

Subjects

History

Database types

Portal

Keywords

National Socialism Persecution of Jews Extermination of Jews Survivor Eyewitness interview source

Notes

A one-time, free registration is required for online access.

Instructions

Registration Instructions (English)
Publication Registration Form (English)

Further information

Editors	Yale University

External identifiers

ZDB	3150069-9

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