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Preface 10
From Living to Testimonial Memory 11
The Americanization of the Holocaust 12
Institutional Cultures of Testimony 13
Acknowledgments 14
Reframing holocaust testimony 18
Introduction. Testimonial Literacy 20
The Dynamics of Testimony 24
Testimony and Popular Representations of the Holocaust 27
History, Memory, and the Performance of Testimony 29
A Mosaic of Testimonies 30
Frames of Interpretation 32
One. Testimonies from the Grassroots 38
The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies 38
The Local Origins of the Fortunoff Archive 39
Conceptual Framework 40
Lawrence Langer and Anti-Redemptive Testimony 42
The Demands of Testimony 45
Media Specificity 45
Interview Methodology 47
Interview Assessment 49
The Circulation of Testimonies 52
Those Who Were There 53
Witness: Voices from the Holocaust 55
Exemplary Witnesses 59
The First Testimony of Eva B. 60
The Second Testimony of Eva B. 62
The Third Testimony of Eva B. 64
The Exemplary Testimony of Baruch G. 66
Expanding the “Frame Conditions” of Fortunoff Archive Testimony 71
Two. Centralizing Holocaust Testimony 75
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 75
The Visceral and Intellectual Demands of Exhibiting the Holocaust 79
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum as a Storytelling Site 84
"A Conceptual Museum” 88
Establishing the Department of Oral History 91
The Museum’s Oral History Methodology 94
A Clash of Oral History Cultures 101
Testimonial and Curatorial Frameworks 106
Screening and Screening Out Testimonies 109
From the Archive to the Screen 114
The Conversion of Testimony 121
An Exemplary Holocaust Survivor 123
Projecting Testimonial Authority beyond the Museum 125
Three. The Cinematic Origins and the Digital Future of the Shoah Foundation 131
Mandate and Scope 132
Domesticating and Standardizing Testimonies 133
From the Studio Backlot to the Ivory Tower 134
Conceptual Framework 136
Interview Methodology 137
Interview Training and Assessment 139
Pre-Interview Preparation 140
The Interview 143
Recording Testimonies 149
Indexing, Cataloguing, and Accessing the VHA 150
Exemplary, Unexemplary, and Widely Circulated Witnesses of the VHA 154
Olga K.: A Case Study of a Highly Rated Witness 155
Richard K.: A Case Study of a Lower-Rated Witness 159
Julia L.: A Case Study of a Widely Circulated Witness 162
The Limits and Potential of the Visual History Archive 166
Four. Telling and Retelling Holocaust Testimonies 170
Lily M.: "When I start to talk about Tosha, I lose myself” 171
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 171
The Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation 178
Leo B.: “If there is such a thing as a memory, that stench is still there” 180
The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies 180
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 181
The Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation 183
Max “Amichai” H.: “I’m an escape artist” 184
The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies 184
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 186
The Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation 187
Chaim and Selma E.: Intertwined Testimonies 188
Chaim E.: "I see the picture in front of me; you have to imagine something.” 188
The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies 188
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 192
The Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation 194
Selma E.: “So tell Chaim ... to tell that story.” 196
The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies 196
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 198
The Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation 202
Testimony and the Prospects of Transmitting Cross-Generational Memory 206
Conclusion. Documenting Genocide through the Lens of the Holocaust 211
The Shoah Foundation beyond the Shoah 212
The Limits of Multidirectional Testimonies of the Holocaust 215
Notes 218
Preface 218
Introduction 218
1. Testimonies from the Grassroots 227
2. Centralizing Holocaust Testimony 235
3. The Cinematic Origins and the Digital Future of the Shoah Foundation 257
4. Telling and Retelling Holocaust Testimonies 265
Conclusion 269
References 273
Primary Sources Archival Sources 273
Personal records 278
Interviews 278
Film and Video Sources 290
Index 291