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Holocaust Testimonies and Their Afterlives: A Summer Course at CEU

Join our summer course at Central European University in Budapest! Holocaust Testimonies and Their Afterlives is a two-week, intensive summer course that will investigate the genealogy of the era of the witness, focusing on the emergence of Holocaust testimony as the model for eyewitness documentation of 20th and 21st-century atrocities, and its impact on efforts to record and represent subsequent human rights abuses and acts of mass violence. The course will feature a series of workshops, seminars, public lectures, film screenings, and even a concert. The goal of the course is to bring together leading scholars of testimony and oral history, who engage in highly interdisciplinary approaches to documenting, studying, and interpreting the Holocaust and other genocides and mass atrocities through the lens of first-person accounts. Participants will explore the vast genre of Holocaust testimony through readings, lectures, and hands-on work with a variety of primary sources. The course interrogates testimonies from historical, legal, and moral perspectives, raising theoretical and methodological questions about the “afterlife” of these sources, which are highly relevant for a wide variety of scholarly fields, including History, Jewish Studies, Nationalism Studies, Genocide Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Cultural and Literary Studies, Memory Studies and Legal Studies. In the […]

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

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

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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

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

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Fortunoff Releases Beta Version of Aviary

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