| The Fortunoff Video
Archive 20th Anniversary Exhibtion The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, founded in 1982, is dedicated to the recording, collection, and preservation of videotaped oral testimonies of survivors and witnesses. The Archive holds more than 4,200 testimonies and over 10,000 hours of videotape, recorded in cooperation with 37 affiliate projects in North America, South America, Europe, Israel, and the former Soviet Union. The Archive advises students, scholars, and education associations; catalogs its testimonies to make them intellectually accessible; and loans programs of testimony excerpts to educators, schools, and community groups. This exhibit was created in conjunction with the Archive’s 20th Anniversary Conference, entitled “The Contribution of Oral Testimony to Holocaust and Genocide Studies.” The materials in the exhibit were culled from many of the collections in the Yale University Library, including the Judaica Collection, the Map Collection, and the Department of Manuscripts and Archives. The maps, photos, books, and documents in the exhibit were paired with excerpts from Archive witness testimonies. This juxtaposition of words and images reflects the Archive’s mission: to draw the sights, sounds, and silences of Holocaust testimony into a single, powerful frame. |