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The Wonder of Their Voices - The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder (Paperback)
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The Wonder of Their Voices - The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Oral History Series
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Over the last several decades, video testimony 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 wire recorder. Likely the earliest audio
recorded testimony of Holocaust survivors, the interviews are
valuable today for the spoken word (that of the DP narrators and of
Boder himself) and also for the song sessions and religious
services that Boder recorded. Eighty sessions were eventually
transcribed into English, most of which were included in a
self-published manuscript. Alan 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 early postwar
testimony, Rosen avers, deserves to be taken on its own terms
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.
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