Forever Yesterday - Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University
Duration: 00:55:00 This documentary is based upon Holocaust survivor testimonies. The rationale behind it was that the "living portraiture" of television would add a compassionate and sensitive dimension to the historical record. his undertaking led to the formation of a grass roots organi...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | English |
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WNEW-TV
1981
United States |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:c1320cc1-0db6-46f9-bd97-93ab783d6baf |
| Summary: | Duration: 00:55:00
This documentary is based upon Holocaust survivor testimonies. The rationale behind it was that the "living portraiture" of television would add a compassionate and sensitive dimension to the historical record. his undertaking led to the formation of a grass roots organization, the Holocaust Survivors Film Project, Inc. It brought together survivors, under the leadership of William Rosenberg; academic consultants led by Yale Professor Geoffrey Hartman; and other community members committed to this urgent task. Their efforts resulted in an initial collection of almost 200 videotaped testimonies; "Forever Yesterday" and "About the Holocaust," a specially prepared documentary for secondary schools. In 1981, all the original tapes were formally deposited at Yale University. The following year, with the aid of a start-up grant from the Charles H. Revson Foundation, the Video Archive was established as part of the University's Sterling Memorial Library, an internationally recognized research center. In 1987, Alan M. Fortunoff made a major gift to the endowment fund of the Archive. |
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| Published: | 1981 |