GR & Holocaust related site

[Doug Millison]

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>Subject: Site of the Day | Sept. 7, 2000
>From: "Britannica.com" <site.of.the.day at newsletters.britannica.com>
>Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 10:10:07 MDT
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>Site of the Day | Britannica.com | Sept. 7, 2000
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>Voices of the Holocaust **
>Illinois Institute of Technology
>http://voices.iit.edu/
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>"Voices of the Holocaust" compiles the work of American
>psychologist David Pablo Boder, who traveled to Europe
>in 1946 with a group of Chicago journalists to interview
>Holocaust survivors who lived in displaced persons camps
>in Europe. Part of the documentary's interest stems from
>the fact that the interviews took place just one year after
>World War II ended, giving the memories a feeling of immediacy;
>Boder captured 120 hours of interviews with the new technology
>of wire recorders. Though still in its initial stages, the site
>houses an archive of his work in translated, full-text, unedited
>transcripts that require some commitment to digest, but bear
>fruits both harrowing and heroic. Peruse the summaries within
>the archive to get firsthand accounts of death camp brutality
>as they were first pieced together by Westerners. There are also
>a few rough streaming audio files of original interviews, though
>only one was conducted in English--the featured interview with
>Nelly Bundy, whose assignment to work in the death camp office
>led her to discover file cards with the names of those who had
>been exterminated, including her husband. Bundy's matter-of-fact
>understatement, "I had a relatively good time in Auschwitz"--
>along with the whole of "Voices of the Holocaust"--underscores
>the horrors of a place where even the basest creature comforts
>stood in stark contrast to the surrounding depravity.
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>--Tom Michael
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>"Birkenau was the extermination camp. And there we detrained.
>And so says...says my aunt, 'Do they take away the things?'
>All the things which we had brought. So one there says...
>There were other Jews, Polish, who had unloaded us, who had
>been in the lager a long time.... They said, 'The soul is
>taken away, too, not only the things!'"
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>--Alexander Gertner, Holocaust survivor
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>["Voices of the Holocaust"]
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