Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/
I searched for a website that ended in .edu for this assignment. I found one at Yale that seemed interesting. The website describes and provides ways to search through a collection of testimonies from Holocaust survivors and witnesses.
URL: When evaluating this website; the URL tells us that it is from the Yale library. There are several links on the page that will take you to Yale or to the main library page.
Author and Qualifications: In the “About the Archive section”, there is a “History” of the website: It says the archive was a project started in 1979. The project was started by “a television specialist, Laurel Vlock, and a survivor of the Holocaust, psychiatrist Dr. Dori Laub”.
The project started by Vlock and Laub, led to the beginning of the Holocaust Survivors Film Project, Inc. The group was led by “William Rosenberg; academic consultants led by Yale Professor Geoffrey Hartman; and other community members”. The qualifications for the people that have contributed to this project and website can be researched further to verify if they are legitimate or not.
There are lots of places on the website that provide contact information and let users request more information:
Contact information on each page:
The following information is listed at the bottom of the main page and under the “Contact, Location & Hours” tab:
Currency: The website says that in 1981 the original tapes were deposited at Yale University and in 1982 the Video Archive was established as part of the University's Sterling Memorial Library. The website provides a link for further timeline information, but the link does not work.
“For a detailed history of the Video Archive, please see the following document: A Yale University and New Haven Community Project: From Local to Global.”
At the bottom of each page, the copyright date and the last modified date are listed. There are no other indications that the website is kept current.
“© 2009 Yale University Library. This file last modified December 4, 2009.”
The presentation of the website is “factual”, but the content is “emotional”. They appear to do a good job of showing the content in a historical perspective. It appears the audience is intended to be the general public. The website describes its concept or purpose on their “Our Concept” page:
1 comment:
I am able to understand the importance of the personal testimonies of Holocaust survivors after visiting the Virginia Holocaust Museum. The video of the personal experiences of Jay Ipson during the Holocaust was very enlightening. Hearing Mr. Ipson explain what it was like for him, makes the Holocaust seem “real”.
Watching the video before touring the museum helped bring everything into perspective. “Reliving” some of the atrocities the Ipson family endured teaches the Holocaust in ways that are hard to experience from other methods.
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