Application Information
The William Rosenberg Senior Research Scholar position is by invitation only.
William Rosenberg Senior Research Scholar
The William Rosenberg Senior Research Scholar invites an established scholar to spend a semester conducting research at the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.
William Rosenberg, one of the Archive's founders
Overview
William Rosenberg was born in Czestochowa, Poland in 1929. The only survivor of his family of seven children, he was incarcerated in seven concentration camps. As president of the New Haven Farband and the New Haven survivors fellowship group, Willy was instrumental in the founding of the Holocaust Survivors Film Project (HSFP). He was a tireless advocate for the HSFP and later for the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.