Laub Fellowship
Together with Laurel Vlock, Dr. Laub began videotaping Holocaust survivors in his office in May 1979 as part of what would become the Holocaust Survivors Film Project (HSFP). Dr. Laub participated in 134 testimony taping sessions for the HSFP and the Fortunoff Archive as well as for other independent projects. He trained interviewers for affiliated projects in the U.S. Israel, Canada, and Europe, and it was his unique perspective as a survivor and clinical psychiatrist shaped the Fortunoff Archive’s distinctive methodology. Laub's work was groundbreaking and critical to the Fortunoff Archive’s growth and success.
The Dori Laub Fellowship for Doctoral Student Research provides an opportunity for a doctoral student to work with the collection.
Current Fellows
Alexandra SzabóDori Laub Fellow
Szabó is a PhD candidate in history at Brandeis University. Her research examines the long-term experiences of Hungarian Jews and Roma subjected to sterilization and castration experiments in Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Lackenbach. To capture the enduring consequences of these medical abuses, she developed the concept of “prolonged genocide,” reinterpreting Raphael Lemkin’s framework through the lens of survivor testimony. Drawing on the Fortunoff Archive, she investigates individual accounts of survivors, and she further situates her findings within international legal history by analyzing video testimonies of some of the actors of the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial, highlighting how the mass sterilization experiments and their victims were understood or overlooked on the world stage.