Holocaust Survivors Film Project.

In 1979, a television specialist, Laurel Vlock, and a survivor of the Holocaust, psychiatrist Dr. Dori Laub, launched a project to document the personal memories of Holocaust witnesses using the medium of video. They helped form a grass roots organization, the Holocaust Survivors Film Project (HSFP), together with local survivors, under the leadership of William Rosenberg, academic consultants led by Yale Professor Geoffrey Hartman, and other community members committed to this urgent task. Initially, this group videotaped almost 200 testimonies; produced, with New York's WNEW-TV, Forever Yesterday, an Emmy award-winning documentary; and created About the Holocaust, a specially prepared documentary for secondary schools. In 1981 Yale University accepted all the original testimony tapes as a formal deposit. The following year, with the aid of a start-up grant from the Charles H. Revson Foundation, the Video Archive was established as part of the University's Sterling Memorial Library. Additional information about the HSFP and its successor organization, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, can be found at the Video Archive's web site: http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies.