[MGSA-L] Yale University's Fortunoff Video Archive of Holocaust Testimonies now available at UIC Library

[Paris Papamichos Chronakis]

Greetings to all,


UIC Hellenic Studies Initiative, the Department of Classics and
Mediterranean Studies, and UIC Library are happy to announce that Yale
University's Fortunoff Video Archive is now available at the University of
Illinois at Chicago Library. The archive contains 80 testimonies of Greek
Jewish Holocaust survivors and many more from the Mediterranean basin and
South-Eastern Europe. Researchers in the Chicagoland and the Mid-West are
all welcome.


Kind regards,


Paris Papamichos Chronakis




*Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive of Holocaust Testimonies now
available at UIC Library*


The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Library is pleased to announce
that it is now a partner site of the Fortunoff Video Archive of Holocaust
Testimonies <http://web.library.yale.edu/testimonies> at Yale University
Library. It is one of twelve partner sites
<http://web.library.yale.edu/testimonies/visit/partner-sites> in North
America and the first partner site located west of the Appalachians. The
Archive contains over 4,500 digitized interviews and over 10,000 hours of
testimony from those with first-hand experience of the Nazi persecutions,
including survivors, bystanders, and liberators.



As a partner site, UIC makes these recordings available for viewing in the
Special Collections and University Archives department at the Richard J.
Daley Library. To prepare for a visit, researchers must first request
access to particular testimonies via Yale's library catalog, receive
confirmation, and then make an appointment with the UIC Library’s Special
Collections department to view. Detailed instructions for searching and
requesting access can be found on the UIC Library’s guide
<http://researchguides.uic.edu/fortunoff> to using the Fortunoff Archive:
researchguides.uic.edu/fortunoff




*About Yale University Library’s Fortunoff Video Archive of Holocaust
Testimonies*



The Archive traces its beginnings to a grassroots project started in 1979
to gather testimonies of Holocaust survivors. In 1981, this seed collection
of 183 recordings was deposited at Yale, and since then the Archive has
grown from a local New Haven project into a worldwide effort involving 37
affiliated projects across North America, South America, Europe, and
Israel, including Northwestern University's Holocaust Educational
Foundation. Excerpts from the testimonies have appeared in award-winning
documentaries; “Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory” (1995), which
was named one of the 100 most important books of the 20th century by the
New York Times Book Review; and the Grammy-award-winning "Different Trains"
by Steve Reich. In 2016, the Archive completed a multi-year digitization
project that ensured the long-term preservation of the testimonies.



*About the University of Illinois at Chicago Library’s Special Collections
and University Archives*



Special Collections and University Archives houses rare books and printed
materials, manuscript collections and university archives, specializing in
the history of Chicago. For more information, visituic.library.edu/special-
collections-university-archives or call (312) 996-2742.







-- 
Paris Papamichos Chronakis
Lecturer
Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 South Morgan Street (MC 315), 1818 University Hall
Chicago, IL, 60607-7117
tel. 310 560 2732
skype name: pchronakis
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