Voices of The Holocaust
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| Entrance to the Paul V. Galvin Library which houses the IIT Archives |
On Tuesday afternoon, November 8, 2011, CARA held its Fall 2011 meeting at the
IIT Archives located in the
Paul V. Galvin Libary on the
Illinois Institute of Technology campus in Chicago. If you were unable to attend this meeting, you unfortunately missed a good one! Here is one attendee's repsonse:
"Thank YOU for inviting us to this truly wonderful program. The Holocaust project's achievements and ramifications still occupy my thoughts. And the pristinely designed IIT campus, with its surprisingly cheerful and energetic students, was another pleasure."
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| Diane Pugh leads the Fall 2011 meeting |
CARA member,
Diane Pugh introduced her husband,
Dr. Ralph Pugh, Assistant University Archivist for the Illinois Institute of Technology who gave a presentation on their
Voices of the Holocaust project. That project involved the translation, transcription, and audio transfer to digital audio tape of interviews conducted by IIT psychology professor
Dr. David Boder. In 1946, Boder interviewed 130 Holocaust survivors at displaced persons camps in Europe to get personal accounts of the atrocities they suffered.
Check out the link above to see the website, learn more about the collection and hear the interviews in each person's native language while reading the English translation. The site has various search capabilities!
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| Dr. Ralph Pugh engages the audience |
Ralph gave the attendees an insightful and touching account of Boder's life and work. We examined the website and heard the emotional first-hand accounts of the lives affected by the Holocaust, including Boder's. A Q & A session and tour of the IIT Archives followed the presentation.
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| Dr. Ralph Pugh answers question in the IIT Archives |
A big thanks to Ralph for sharing such an interesting project with local archivists and especially with the world through the Internet - a remarkable digitization achievement!
