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Trailer for film Invisible Years now available

The film, Invisible Years is based on Daphne Geismar’s book of the same title. Daphne wrote the film adaptation of the book together with directors Kira Dane and Katelyn Robelo. The film was funded by a Vlock Fellowship at the Fortunoff Video Archive and a grant from the Claims Conference. The film, like the book, tells the story of her extended Jewish family living in the German-occupied Netherlands. The experiences of the De Zoete, Geismar and Cohen families are presented in their own words taken from an extensive family archive of letters, diaries, documents, and interviews, including testimonies at the Fortunoff Video Archive. The film animates the narrators voices by sequencing them with a trove of photographs and artifacts. The montage of intimate stories combine and illuminate the insidious persecution of the Jews, the courage of the resisters, and our common humanity. View the trailer: More information on screenings forthcoming.

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May 23: "Invisible Years" book talk at the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam

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Welcome Ambrus Hernádi, Laurel Fox Vlock Fellow 2025

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Welcome Julie Dawson, Fortunoff Fellow

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Romani Study Group Conference, April 3, 2025

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Welcome Judith Lin, Fortunoff Fellow

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Welcome Nevena Bajalica, Fortunoff Fellow

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Making Gay History Podcast in Partnership with Fortunoff Launches “Nazi Era” Series

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Welcome Marianne Hirsch, Rosenberg Senior Scholar 2025

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Welcome Leo Spitzer, Rosenberg Senior Scholar 2025

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Welcome Dorien Styven, Fortunoff Fellow

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Welcome Sarah Timperman, Fortunoff Fellow 2025

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Welcome Lida Dodou, Fortunoff Fellow

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Welcome Annette Wieviorka, William Rosenberg Senior Scholar 2025

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January 23, 2025: Live concert of Songs from Testimonies featuring Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble & Sarah Myerson

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Premiere reading of new play The Empty Shell of War at Slifka Center on January 19, 2025

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In Memoriam: Renee Hartman

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Welcome Dr. Evlampia Tsireli, Artist-in-Residence

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CfA | CEU Summer School: “Holocaust Testimonies and Their Afterlives”

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"Mondays at Beinecke" presents Rokhl Auerbach’s Warsaw Testament with Samuel Kassow

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"Mondays at Beinecke" presents The Art of Listening: Testimony-Centered Teaching Practices from the Fortunoff Video Archive

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Book talk: Agnieszka Pasieka on far-right youth activism

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Fellows chosen in inaugural Roma Holocaust Voices Fellowship

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Kansas City-based MCHE highlights its testimony mapping project

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CFP: Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution

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Welcome, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, Artist-in-residence

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Revisiting Let Them Speak: a digital edition of Holocaust testimonies

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Visit the Beinecke's exhibit In the First Person: the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

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Vlock Fellow Asaf Galay wins Lavine/Ken Burns Prize 

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In Memoriam: Michał Sobelman

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CFA: VWI-Fortunoff Research Fellowship 2025/26 at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies

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Welcome Dr. Pollin-Galay, Rosenberg Senior Scholar

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CFA: Roma Holocaust Voices Fellowship

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Welcome, Nora Krug, artist-in-residence at the Fortunoff Video Archive

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Welcome Dr. Laura Jockusch, Rosenberg Senior Scholar

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Fortunoff Archive cooperation with Yung Yidish Wien

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Follow Fortunoff Archive on social media

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Exhibit marking forty-five years of video testimony opens in July at the Beinecke

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July 7th Lecture / Samuel Kassow to present on Rokhl Auerbach's Warsaw Testament

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Welcome Michala Jandák Lônčíková, new Fortunoff/Claims Fellow

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June 23-26, 2024 | Yiddish and the Holocaust: New Approaches, an online conference

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Welcome Matt Johnson, Fortunoff/Claims Conference Fellow

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Deadline extended to July 1 for CFA: Postdoctoral Fellowship for Testimonies in Ladino

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New Testimony-Centered Teaching Materials

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International Conference: Still Searching for Memory and Justice, August 14-16

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CFA: Postdoctoral Fellowship for Yugoslavian Testimonies

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Conference: Romani Roots, Shared Stories

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Book Talk: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust

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Dori Laub, Psychoanalysis and Testimony– Invoking Presence Out of Absence

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Welcome Carli Snyder, Dori Laub Fellow 2023-2024

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Welcome Fortunoff Archive Fellow: Daniela Ozacky Stern

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Revisiting the Special Issue of the Journal of Holocaust Research for Lawrence L. Langer

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Lawrence L. Langer: A Life In Testimony

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In Memoriam: Lawrence L. Langer

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Welcome Fortunoff Archive Fellow Agnieszka Pasieka

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Online Event Feb. 8, 2024 | Documenting the October 7th Massacre: The Edut 710 Archive

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Feb. 7, 2024 | Event on Yale Campus: Meet the Producers of Remembering Vilna

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Shotns/Shadows: Concert Event at YIVO

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Call for Applications for Yiddish and the Holocaust: New Approaches

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Cancellation of Today's Film Screening

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The Holocaust and its Aftermath: Five Documentaries

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Introducing Fortunoff/Vienna Wiesenthal Institute Research Fellow Maria Bogdan

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Cancelled: Film Screening: “I Am Free ... But Who is Left?”

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Presenting the Podcast “Remembering Vilna: Voices from the Holocaust”

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Upcoming Screening of "A Valts" at Filmfest Weiterstadt

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"Songs from Testimonies" Concert in London as Part of Wiener Library Symposium

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Reflections on CEU Summer School featuring Fortunoff Archive in Budapest

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A Valts (The Waltz) Screening

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Jewish American Heritage Month: Remembering Elie Wiesel's Contributions to American Jewish Culture

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The Art of Listening – Video Testimony and the Study of History: Virtual Workshop for Teachers

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Online Event: I Did Not Interview the Dead - A Panel Celebrating the Release of an E-version of Boder's Book

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International Symposium in April 2023: Roma, Jews and the Holocaust

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Resistance and Struggle Across Racial Regimes: Germany, South Africa, and the United States

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Call for Proposals: Research Projects Working with Yiddish Testimonies from the Fortunoff Video Archive

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Holocaust Testimonies and Their Afterlives: A Summer Course at CEU

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YaleNews Showcases the Fortunoff Archive’s Curriculum

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Call for Applications: Fortunoff/VWI Fellowship for the Study of Roma and Sinti Persecution

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Anca Filipovici joins the Archive as Fortunoff/VWI Fellow in Vienna

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Event: "The war gave everyone a role—what’s yours?": Documenting Stories Amid Crisis

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The Shoah in Lithuania: A Different Approach; New Insights

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Screening of "I Am Free...But Who is Left?" by the Center for Medicine, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies

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Upcoming Screenings of "The Waltz"

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Fortunoff Archive Publishes New Critical Editions of Survivor Testimonies

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Upcoming Screening of "I Am Free...But Who is Left?"

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Upcoming Screenings of "The Waltz"

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Fortunoff Archive Receives Bequest from Helene Fortunoff

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Yulia Ruditskaya's "The Waltz" Wins Award at ASIFA-East

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Vlock Fellow Yulia Ruditskaya premiers The Waltz, a film based on Fortunoff testimonies at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival

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Online Symposium: Fortunoff Video Archive Annual Research Symposium, 2022

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On the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and Vladimir Putin's Abuse of Language

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Summer Virtual Institute for Teachers: Holocaust Testimony and Historical Comparisons

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Call For Papers: Recording Romani Voices, Documenting Romani Lives Workshop (June 13-14, 2022)

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In Memoriam: Helene Fortunoff (1933-2021)

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Call For Papers: The Future of Holocaust Testimonies 6 Conference: The Past, Present, and Future of Holocaust Testimonies

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Call For Proposals: Bridging Divides: Rupture and Continuity in Polish Jewish History

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Testimony Indexing Completed

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Fortunoff Archive and Vienna Wiesenthal Institute to Encourage Use of the Collection in Europe

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REMINDER: Summer Virtual Institute for Teachers: Holocaust Testimony and Historical Comparisons

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Fortunoff Video Archive Annual Research Symposium, 2021

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Learning from Lived Experience: Survivor Knowledge from the Holocaust, Antebellum Slavery, and Contemporary Slavery

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YIVO/Carnegie Hall Hosts Online Performance of Volume 2 of Songs from Testimonies

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Book Discussion: Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights from the First World War to the Aftermath of the Holocaust

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Summer Virtual Institute for Teachers: Holocaust Testimony and Historical Comparisons

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Fortunoff Archive Publishes Annotated Critical Editions of Testimonies

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Event: Racism, Fascism, and the Jim Crow Military, As Seen Through the Testimony of Leon Bass

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Online Concert of Cry, My Heart, Cry: Songs from Testimonies on YouTube

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Online Concert: Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble & Sasha Lurje Perform Songs From Testimonies, Volume 2

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TJHTalks - Jewish Encounters in the Coffeehouse

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Webinar: Those Who Were There: Using Podcasts and Survivor Testimony in Your Classroom

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Call For Applications: Hartman Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2021-2023

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Rescheduled: Presentation by Fortunoff/VWI Fellow Julie Dawson

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Fortunoff Archive Premieres Songs From Testimonies Web Series

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Premiere of The Last Time I Saw Them, the Fortunoff Archive’s New Family Separation Mini-Documentary

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Online Event: Release of Journal of Holocaust Research Issue in Honor of Lawrence Langer's Work

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Presentation by Fortunoff/VWI Fellow Julie Dawson

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Rosenberg Senior Scholar Anna Machcewicz Publishes New Book

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Season Two of Those Who Were There Launches

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Julie Dawson Chosen as Fortunoff/VWI Fellow 2020-2021

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A Message from Faculty Advisor Timothy Snyder

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New Publication by Former Hartman Fellow Sarah Garibova

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In Memoriam: Helene Rosenberg (1923-2020)

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May 5, 2020 - Online Symposium: 3rd Annual Geoffrey H. Hartman Symposium

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Online Performances of Songs from Testimonies

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Welcome Anna and Pawel Machcewicz

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Frank Clifford Jr. (1956-2019)

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Welcome Nikolaus Hagen, Fortunoff/VWI Research Fellow 2019-2020

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Allison Somogyi chosen as Fortunoff/USC Postdoctoral Fellow

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Fortunoff Welcomes New Institutions to its Access Site Program

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Gil Rubin chosen as Geoffrey H. Hartman Fellow 2019-2020

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Fortunoff Fellows Present Research

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2019 Event Series

The Holocaust's Jewish Calendars: Keeping Time Sacred, Making Time Holy

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Primo Levi’s Homecoming, 1945-46: The Need to Bear Witness

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Screening of "Our Children," co-written by Rokhl Oyerbakh

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Fortunoff Releases Beta Version of Aviary

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2019 Event Series

Does the Holocaust Matter Anymore? Holocaust Testimonies and the Challenge of Meaningful Remembrance

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Fortunoff Archive's 2019 Event Series: Forty Years of Video Testimony

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The Place of Jews in Polish Memory

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Rokhl Oyerbakh: The Bridge Between Wartime and Postwar Testimony

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2019 Event Series

Introducing "Those Who Were There": The Fortunoff Archive's Podcast

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2019 Event Series

Second Annual Geoffrey H. Hartman Fellowship Symposium

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2019 Event Series

The First Four: Excerpts from Testimonies Recorded on May 2, 1979

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Hannah Pollin-Galay Presents "Ecologies of Witnessing: Language, Place and Holocaust Testimony"

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Carolyn Dean's "The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide"

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Songs from Testimonies at the Fortunoff Video Archive

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Introduction to USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive

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A Demonstration and Critical Examination of USC’s Dimensions in Testimony

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New Fortunoff Video Archive Access System: Introducing Aviary

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Fortunoff Archive Presents Music from Testimony

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Jiří Kocián to present his work at Malach Center for Visual History

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Joanne W. Rudof honored at Lessons and Legacies XV

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Screening of Serena Dykman's film Nana at Sterling Memorial Library

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Fortunoff Video Archive opens collection to Yale Campus

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Ion Popa chosen as Fortunoff/VWI joint fellow

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Sari J. Siegel begins as Hartman Fellow 2018-2019

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Fortunoff Video Archive and Vienna Wiesenthal Institute announce joint fellowship

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Dr. Dori Laub, co-founder of the Fortunoff Archive, dies at 81

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2019 Event Series

Introducing Aviary: The Fortunoff Archive's New Access System

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