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Holocaust Survivor Recordings Found At UA
Long lost recordings of songs sung by holocaust survivors in the years immediately following World War II have been found at the University of Akron.
The songs were part of a collection of material from psychologist David Boder, who recorded interviews with holocaust survivors back in 1946.
Dr. David Baker who is the Executive Director of the University's Center for the History of Psychology, says the recordings have been in their archives since 1967, but were in a mislabeled canister, and not found until recently.
But, because they were so old and recorded on wire instead of tape; they couldn't play them back. So, one of their media specialists actually constructed a new playback device using both old and new parts.
The songs are sung by a woman who had been in a forced labor camp in Poland. One, is a song that Jews would sing to inspire resistance against the Nazis, and another is a song the Germans forced their captors to sing while working in forced labor camps.
Copies of the recordings will now become part of the collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
Holocaust Survivor Recordings Found At UA
Long lost recordings of songs sung by holocaust survivors in the years immediately following World War II has been found at the University of Akron.
The songs were part of a collection of material from psychologist David Boder, who recorded interviews with holocaust survivors back in 1946.
Dr. David Baker who is the Executive Director of the University's Center for the History of Psychology, says the recordings have been in their archives since 1967, but were in a mislabeled canister, and not found until recently.
But, because they were so old and recorded on wire, instead of tape; they couldn't play them back. So, one of their media specialists actually constructed a new playback device using both old and new parts.
The songs are sung by a woman who had been in a forced labor camp in Poland. One, is a song that Jews would sing to inspire resistance against the Nazis, and another is a song the Germans forced their captors to sing while working in forced labor camps.
Copies of the recordings will now become part of the collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.