The wonder of their voices : the 1946 Holocaust interviews of David Boder

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The wonder of their voices : the 1946 Holocaust interviews of David Boder

Alan Rosen

（The Oxford oral history series）

Oxford University Press, c2010

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Over the last several decades, videotestimony with aging Holocaust survivors has brought these witnesses into the limelight. Yet the success of these projects has made it seem that little survivor testimony took place in earlier years. In truth, thousands of survivors began to recount their experience at the earliest opportunity. This book provides the first full-length case study of early postwar Holocaust testimony, focusing on David Boder's 1946 displaced persons interview project. In July 1946, Boder, a psychologist, traveled to Europe to interview victims of the Holocaust who were in the Displaced Persons (DP) camps and what he called "shelter houses." During his nine weeks in Europe, Boder carried out approximately 130 interviews in nine languages and recorded them on a state-of-the-art wire recorder. Likely the earliest audio recorded testimony of Holocaust survivors, the interviews are today the earliest extant recordings, valuable for the spoken word (that of the DP narrators and of Boder himself) and also for the song sessions and religious services that Boder wire recorded at various points through the expedition. Eighty were eventually transcribed into English, most of which were included in a self-published manuscript of more than 3,100 pages. Rosen sets Boder's project in the context of the postwar response to displaced persons, sketches the dramatic background of his previous life and work, chronicles in detail the evolving process of interviewing both Jewish and non-Jewish DPs, and examines from several angles the implications for the history of Holocaust testimony. Such postwar testimony, Rosen avers, deserves to be taken on its own terms-as unbelated testimony-rather than to be enfolded into earlier or later schemas of testimony. Moreover, Boder's efforts and the support he was given for them demonstrate that American postwar response to the Holocaust was not universally indifferent but rather often engaged, concerned, and resourceful.

目次

  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION: BODER'S HAPPY IDEA
  • EPILOGUE: REWRITING THE HISTORY OF HOLOCAUST TESTIMONY
  • APPENDIX I LISTS OF INTERVIEWS
  • APPENDIX II THE DISPUTED NUMBER OF INTERVIEWS
  • APPENDIX III TOPICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHIES TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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