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Teaching this through survivors' own testimony is the part that actually sticks with kids. Good work getting those materials into classrooms.
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On #InternationalPodcastDay listen to #FVAHT's Those Who Were There, the only podcast dedicated to sharing the history of the Holocaust through the first-hand testimonies.
Listen to Leon Bass’ powerful story — in Leon's own words.
bit.ly/twwtleon-bass
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Our Education & Outreach Program Manager Eliana Swerdlow met w/ educators, students, community members, and families of survivors at Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center to discuss our work developing digital teaching materials rooted in testimony.
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Eliana’s work with area schools and community organizations is crucial to reaffirming the educational use of testimonies that is so central to our mission.
Learn more about our teaching resources: fortunoff.library.yale.edu/e…
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10/6-8: 80 years after he began one of the first audio testimony projects with survivors of the Holocaust, scholars will reflect on Boder’s life and work at "David Boder: Reflecting on His Work, Life and Legacy 80 Years After."
aup.edu/news-events/event/da…
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9/15: Join @Grzegor54109874 to learn about his interdisciplinary practice that brings together poetry, music, testimony, and activism as tools against hatred, erasure, authoritarianism, and moral indifference.
hrp.law.harvard.edu/hrp-even…
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After the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, the country was split between the Nazi invaders and the Soviet Union. The town of Vilna would end up in the hands of the Soviets, then the Lithuanians, then the Soviets again. 1/4
Listen: fortunoff.library.yale.edu/p…
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“Remembering Vilna” is the third season of our podcast “Those Who Were There: Voices From the Holocaust,” produced with YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. 3/4
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#FVAHT @yalelibrary has entered into a renewed cooperation agreement with the @EHRIproject, building on a longstanding partnership. #EHRI #Holocaust
Read more: bit.ly/4gLwoTB
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Spotted in North Carolina!
Join #FVAHT Musician-in-Residence @zislepovitch @appstate this Saturday 8/29 for a performance of Songs from Testimonies: Music from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.
calendar.appstate.edu/event/…
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Please join us in welcoming Clara Farkas as our 2026 #FVAHT / ERIAC Fellow.
Clara is a Budapest-based Hungarian Romungro and Colombian artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work explores the relationship between identity and cultural memory.
fortunoff.library.yale.edu/2…
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#FVAHT welcomes František Balog as a 2026 #FVAHT / ERIAC Fellow.
He is a Slovak theatre actor, playwright, director, and cultural leader whose work is dedicated to preserving and promoting Roma history and culture through contemporary theatre.
fortunoff.library.yale.edu/2…
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9/16: Join #FVAHT Artist-in-Residence, acclaimed Polish poet, musician, and memory activist @Grzegor54109874 for an evening of poetry, conversation, and reflection on Holocaust memory, Jewish history, and the power of art to preserve the past.
events.humanitix.com/poetry-…
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#FVAHT is proud to have supported Yiddish Barcelona 2026, the first edition of an intensive Yiddish summer program based at Casa Adret in Barcelona’s historic Jewish quarter. 1/3
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It was a unique opportunity for participants to be introduced to the development and collection of the Fortunoff Video Archive while engaging with video testimonies in Judeo-Spanish, Yiddish, and Spanish. 2/3
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Summer of 1946. Psychologist Dr. David Boder began one of the first audio testimony projects w/ survivors of the Holocaust.
In October, 80 years after after his project, scholars to reflect on Boder’s life and work at a conference in Paris.
fortunoff.library.yale.edu/2…
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Today we remember the genocide of the Roma and Sinti by the Nazis.
Krystyna Gil (née Ciuroń), born 11/5/38, gave testimony to #FVAHT on 5/13/95 in Kraków at 57 years of age. She became an advocate for the rights of Romani people after her experience during World War II.
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