Reframing Holocaust Testimony

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Reframing Holocaust Testimony is written by Noah Shenker and published by Indiana University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0253017173 (ISBN 10) and 9780253017178 (ISBN 13).

"An invaluable resource" for individuals and institutions documenting the experiences of Holocaust survivors—or other historical testimony—on video ( Journal of Jewish Identities). Institutions that have collected video testimonies from the few remaining Holocaust survivors are grappling with how to continue their mission to educate and commemorate. Noah Shenker calls attention to the ways that audiovisual testimonies of the Holocaust have been mediated by the institutional histories and practices of their respective archives. Shenker argues that testimonies are shaped not only by the encounter between interviewer and interviewee, but also by technical practices and the testimony process—and analyzes the ways in which interview questions, the framing of the camera, and curatorial and programming preferences impact how Holocaust testimony is molded, distributed, and received.