Resources

In the 1970s the Holocaust Survivors Film Project began videotaping Holocaust survivors and witnesses in New Haven. Since then, the Fortunoff Archive has worked to record, collect and preserve Holocaust witness testimonies, and to make its collection available to researchers, educators and the general public. The Fortunoff Archive currently holds more than 4,400 testimonies, which are comprised of over 10,000 recorded hours of videotape. The Fortunoff Archive and its affiliates recorded the testimonies of willing individuals with first-hand experience of the Nazi persecutions, including those in hiding, survivors, bystanders, resistants and liberators. Testimonies are recorded in whatever language the witness prefers, and range in length from one-half hour to over 40 hours.