We are excited to announce the publication of four new annotated editions of unedited testimonies as part of our Critical Editions Series. The Critical Editions Series contextualizes Fortunoff Video Archive testimonies in their historical time and place. Each testimony in the series was chosen by one of our visiting scholars and fellows. Each scholar then produced an introductory essay about the chosen testimony, along with an annotated transcript that provides additional insight and background information. The new additions bring the total number of testimonies in the series to twelve. They also expand the geographical horizons of the Critical Edition series, exploring testimonies from Ukraine, Poland, Romania, and the United States. Below is a brief summary of each of the new Critical Editions: In 2021, the Archive welcomed three Rosenberg senior scholars. The first, Wendy Lower, wrote about Eric “Isaac” Hauser and the history of the Holocaust in western Ukraine. Born in a small village near Lviv, Hauser’s testimony offers a lens to explore the history of the ’double occupation’ of the region – first by the Soviet Union and then by Nazi Germany.  Our second senior scholar, Jonathan Petropoulos, wrote about the testimony of Sidney Bruskin, a son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, a Yale graduate, a […]