Archive
The Fortunoff Archive’s collection consists of over 4,400 testimonies of Holocaust survivors, witnesses and liberators. Learn how to search the collection for materials relevant to your research. Includes step by step instructions on how to register in Aviary and access the collection. Search the Archive
Fellowships
The Fortunoff Archive actively encourages supports scholarship with the collection through its fellowship program. The archive offers several fellowships including a two-year fellowship for a postdoctoral scholar, as well as fellowships for doctoral candidates and senior scholars. Learn More
Access Sites
The Fortunoff Archive makes its collection available at dozens of access sites around the globe. Access Sites are generally institutions of higher learning, museums, and memorial sites. There is no cost to become an access site. Locate an Access Site
From the Archive
Edited Program
Rachel G. Edited Testimony
A child survivor from Brussels, Belgium, relates her wartime experiences. WatchPodcast
SE02E01: Sally Frishberg
High school teacher Sally Frishberg used her childhood experience of being hidden for two years with her family in a Polish farmer’s attic to create one of the first public high school classes on the history of the Holocaust. ListenSongs from Testimonies
Doina — Badkhen’s Song
Recounted in Jack M.'s testimony (HVT-1555). The composition opens with the doina (a free-time improvisatory piece) ListenEdited Program
Baruch G. Edited Testimony
A survivor from Mlawa, Poland, Rabbi G. chronicles the destruction of his closely knit extended family and his experiences in numerous concentration and slave labor camps. WatchSongs from Testimonies
In the Small Village of Smiltschenzi
The song, recounted in Liubov's testimony, conveys the suffering of Jewish mothers separated from their children. ListenDigital Humanities
Citation Database
Database listing testimonies cited by researchers over the last forty years. Search by testimony, author or publication. ExplorePodcast
S01E10: Sam Kassow
In 1945, Celia Kassow gave birth to her son Sam in a displaced persons camp. 75 years later, Sam reflects on his mother’s life. ListenDigital Humanities
Let Them Speak
Let Them Speak (LTS) makes searchable circa 2,500 testimony transcripts from three major collections: Fortunoff, USHMM, and USC Shoah Foundation. searchable a joint project by the Fortunoff Archive Learn MorePodcast
SE01E02: Leon Bass
Leon Bass faced racism growing up in Philadelphia, confronted it in the Army, and discovered its “ultimate” endpoint at a German concentration camp called Buchenwald. Listen
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Rosenberg Senior Scholar Anna Machcewicz Publishes New Book
Congratulations to Anna Machcewicz on the publication of her new book! Civility in Uncivil Times: Kazimierz Moczarski’s Quiet Battle for Truth, from the Polish Underground to Stalinist Prison recounts the life of journalist, soldier, and political prisoner Kazimierz Moczarski. Moczarski fought for law and democracy in the authoritarian Poland of the 1930s. During the Second World War, he joined the resistance movement. After the war, he spent eleven years in a Stalinist prison, including nine months in one cell with the Nazi Jürgen Stroop, who commanded the brutal subjugation of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After he was freed from prison, he wrote about meeting Stroop in Conversations with the Executioner. Machcewicz was a 2020 William Rosenberg Senior Scholar at the Fortunoff Archive. Learn more about the book here.
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