The Fortunoff Archive currently holds more than 4,400 testimonies, which are comprised of over 12,000 recorded hours of videotape. Testimonies were produced in cooperation with thirty-six affiliated projects across North America, South America, Europe, and Israel, and each project maintains a duplicate collection of locally recorded videotapes. The Fortunoff Archive and its affiliates recorded the testimonies of willing individuals with first-hand experience of the Nazi persecutions, including those who were in hiding, survivors, bystanders, resistance members, and liberators. Following the digitization of the entire collection for preservation and access, the Archive is now producing a series of digital humanities projects built around the digital collection.These projects include a visualization of collection metadata, hybrid audiovisual and annotated textual critical editions of testimonies, and an digital editions of testimony transcripts from three different collections, Fortunoff, USHMM, and USC Shoah Foundation, with a corpus query search engine.
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The Fortunoff Archive currently holds more than 4,400 testimonies, which are comprised of over 12,000 recorded hours of videotape. Testimonies were produced in cooperation with thirty-six affiliated projects across North America, South America, Europe, and Israel, and each project maintains a duplicate collection of locally recorded videotapes. The Fortunoff Archive and its affiliates recorded the testimonies of willing individuals with first-hand experience of the Nazi persecutions, including those who were in hiding, survivors, bystanders, resistance members, and liberators. Following the digitization of the entire collection for preservation and access, the Archive is now producing a series of digital humanities projects built around the digital collection.These projects include a visualization of collection metadata, hybrid audiovisual and annotated textual critical editions of testimonies, and an digital editions of testimony transcripts from three different collections, Fortunoff, USHMM, and USC Shoah Foundation, with a corpus query search engine.
(Description adapted from information on project website)