The First Four: Excerpts from Testimonies Recorded by the Holocaust Survivors Film Project on May 2, 1979

On May 2, 1979, four survivors gave testimony to Dr. Dori Laub and Laurel Vlock at Dr. Laub’s office on Howard Avenue in New Haven. It was the first taping of survivors on video by what would become the Holocaust Survivors Film Project — the predecessor to the Fortunoff Video Archive. This 40th anniversary event will feature remarks by Lawrence Langer, Emeritus Professor of English at Simmons College, and Joanne W. Rudof, Archivist Emeritus, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, and a poetry reading by Renee Hartman, followed by a screening of excerpts from the first four testimonies recorded in New Haven.
(Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies; Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism; Yale’s Judaic Studies Program; Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale; Sobotka Yom HaShoah Endowment Fund; Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)

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