Archive of memory
The Archive of Memory is a video archive with the content Living with Memory. Holocaust survivors tell . This is a collection of video interviews with surviving victims of the concentration camps of the German Reich . They come from many different countries in Europe. The interviews in their original language are not translated or subtitled, but transcribed. The copy was translated into German. For each transcript, detailed lists of contents and topics have been created and also published, which precisely reflect the course of the interview. There is also a CV of the interviewee and a short summary for each video. The recordings have been made since the 1970s.
The collection was created through a cooperation between the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies ( University of Potsdam ), the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies ( Yale University , New Haven) and the House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial , (Berlin). The archive is made accessible to the public by the Foundation Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe in the "Place of Remembrance" of the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe . The material was put online via Orbis or OCLC's Worldcat . The project is a contribution to the oral history of contemporary history. A few years later, a similar approach was expanded upon by the Visual History Archive of the Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education at the University of Southern California (USC).
Web links
- Video archive living with memory. Holocaust survivors tell. Project description at stiftung-denkmal.de
- Biographical interviews of the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
- University of Southern California - Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education ( Memento August 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Yale University Library - Fortunoff Archive
- Review in: H-Soz-u-Kult , October 5, 2007
See also
- On the interviews by David Boder , 1946.
Literature, media
- Cathy Gelbin, Eva Lezzi u. a. (Ed.): Archive of Memory. Interviews with survivors of the Shoah. ISBN 3-932981-04-9 . Volume 1: Videographed life stories and their interpretations, Verlag für Berlin Brandenburg, Potsdam 1998; 467 pp.
- Sonja Miltenberger: Archive of Memory. Interviews with survivors of the Shoah. Volume 2: Annotated Catalog , Potsdam 1998; 262 pp.
- Johanna Bodenstab: The most speaking moment is silence: the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Audio cassette, 1996, 55 min.