November 1, 2020 -
Interrogating Evil: A Special Issue of the Journal of Holocaust Research for Lawrence L. Langer
September 9, 2021
How Should We Write a History of the Prisoner Society? Anna Hájková’s New History of the Theresienstadt Ghetto
On September 9, 2021 the Fortunoff Video Archive hosted Anna Hájková in conversation with Alexandra Garbarini about Hájková's new book,The Last Ghetto: A New History of the Theresiendtadt Ghetto.
May 12, 2021
2021 Annual Research Symposium
On May 12, 2021 the Fortunoff Video Archive hosted their annual research symposium, featuring the work of Chad Gibbs (Dori Laub Fellow), Julie Dawson (Fortunoff/VWI Fellow), Wendy Lower (William Rosenberg Senior Scholar), and Jonathan Petropoulos (William Rosenberg Senior Scholar).
May 6, 2021
Learning from Lived Experience: Survivor Knowledge from the Holocaust, Antebellum Slavery, & Contemporary Slavery
On May 6, 2021, the Fortunoff Video Archive, the Gilder Lehrman Center, and the Rights Lab at University of Nottingham hosted a panel discussion on core ideas about what survivors know and what testimonies and experiences of survival tell us.
February 25, 2021
Racism, Fascism and the Jim Crow Military
On February 25, 2021, the Fortunoff Video Archive hosted an online lecture by PhD candidate Anna Duensing. Using the testimony of Leon Bass (HVT-1241), she examined the experiences of African-American service members who confronted the Nazi threat.
January 27, 2021
Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble & Sasha Lurje: Online Concert of Cry, My Heart, Cry: Songs from Testimonies
On January 27, 2021, the Yale Institute for Sacred Music, Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, and the Fortunoff Video Archive held a public, online performance of songs from Testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive, Volume Two.
December 2, 2020
Ten Years of "The Wonder of Their Voices": The Future of the Boder Collection
On December 2, 2020, the Fortunoff Video Archive hosted a discussion with author Alan Rosen and Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) library and archive staff, Adam Strohm and Mindy Pugh, about the work of psychologist and interviewer David Boder.
November 1, 2020
Interrogating Evil: A Special Issue of the Journal of Holocaust Research for Lawrence L. Langer
On November 1, 2020, the Fortunoff Video Archive hosted an online event marking the publication of a special issue of the Journal of Holocaust Research in commemoration of the 90th birthday of Professor Lawrence Langer.
May 5, 2020
Third Annual Geoffrey H. Hartman Symposium
On May 5, 2020, fellows Gil Rubin (Geoffrey H. Hartman fellow), Allison Somogyi (USC/Fortunoff Fellow), Nikolaus Hagen (VWI/Fortunoff fellow), Anna Machcewitz (William Rosenberg Senior Scholar) and Pawel Machcewitz (William Rosenberg Senior Scholar) presented on their research at the Third Annual Geoffrey H. Hartman Symposium
November 4, 2019
Rokhl Oyerbakh: The Bridge Between Wartime and Postwar Testimony - Keynote
On November 4, 2019, the Fortunoff Video Archive hosted a day-long conference titled "Rokhl Oyerbakh: The Bridge Between Wartime and Postwar Testimony." Samuel Kassow, Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, gave the conference keynote titled "‘We Fulfilled Our Mission': The Legacy of Rokhl Oyerbakh." This lecture was part of the archive’s 2019 event series, commemorating 40 years of recording Holocaust testimonies at Yale University.
May 3, 2019
Second Annual Geoffrey H. Hartman Symposium: Ion Popa
On May 3, 2019 the Fortunoff Video Archive hosted their second annual Geoffrey H. Hartman Fellowship Symposium, featuring the work of two fellows. In this presentation, Fortunoff/VWI Joint Fellow Ion Popa discusses his research on conversion from Judaism to Christianity as a method of survival during the Holocaust.
May 3, 2019
Second Annual Geoffrey H. Hartman Fellowship Symposium: Sari J. Siegel
On May 3, 2019 the Fortunoff Video Archive hosted their second annual Geoffrey H. Hartman Fellowship Symposium, featuring the work of two fellows. In this presentation, Geoffrey H. Hartman fellow Sari J. Siegel discusses her research on survivor Esther F., a Jewish prisoner-physician; the role of Jewish prisoner-physicians in the Holocaust, both in ghettos and concentration camps; and the role of Jewish forced labor in the Holocaust.
April 22, 2019
Carolyn Dean's The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide.
On April 22, 2019, the Fortunoff Video Archive hosted a panel examining Professor Carolyn Dean's book titled The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide. This lecture was part of the archive’s 2019 event series, commemorating 40 years of recording Holocaust testimonies at Yale University.
April 21, 2019
Ecologies of Witnessing: Language, Place and Holocaust Testimony
On April 21, 2019, the Fortunoff Video Archive hosted author and scholar Hannah Pollin-Galay for a presentation on her book titled Ecologies of Witnessing: Language, Place and Holocaust Testimony. This lecture was part of the archive’s 2019 event series, commemorating 40 years of recording Holocaust testimonies at Yale University.
