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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

In 1990, composer Steve Reich's piece, Different Trains, which incorporated soundbites from the Fortunoff testimonies, won a Grammy Award for best contemporary classical composition.

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They partnered with William Rosenberg, the president of the local chapter of the Farband, a labor Zionist organization, which had many Holocaust survivors among its members.

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Geoffrey Hartman, a professor of English and comparative literature at Yale, was also one of the key founding members.

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