Freie Universität Berlin provides access to another important interview archive with survivors of the Holocaust

Witness videos from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies available for viewing. No 344/2017 from Dec 19, 2017 Freie Universität is offering another important resource for researching the Holocaust and its subsequent history. Researchers are now able to access Yale University's Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. For several years researchers at Freie Universität have had access to the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive initiated by Steven Spielberg, the Forced Labor 1939-1945 interview archive, and the Refugee Voices archive. With this new access to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, the University Library and the Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS) at Freie Universität Berlin are making it possible to use around 4,500 additional filmed interviews with Holocaust survivors. Since 1979 Yale University's Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies has been documenting survivors of the Holocaust with the aim of preserving their memories and making them available to researchers and the interested public. Initiated by Laurel Fox Vlock, Dori Laub, William Rosenberg, and Geoffrey Hartman, the archive is regarded as the pioneer of videotaped oral history, the oral historiography.