Psychologist David Boder traveled from the United States to interview 119 survivors, most of them Jews, in displaced persons camps in 1946. Boder’s decision to document the interviews on a wire recorder was singular and reflects his interests not only in documenting the interviewees’ wartime experiences but also in studying their impact on informants’ psychological health. To this end, Boder argued, the ability to hear survivors speaking in their own languages was key. Boder’s recordings and transcriptions, as well as information about his work, can be found at Voices of the Holocaust.

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