Edut710 – Documenting as an Act of Resistance

Stephen Naron and Ohad Ufaz  in Conversation with Marianne Windsperger (June/July 2024)

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23777/sn.0224/con_ousn01

Keywords:

Documentation project, Edut710, 7 October 2023, Methodology, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Abstract

The Edut 710 project is the largest documentation initiative in Israel to interview survivors of the Hamas massacre of 7 October 2023 and make the recordings available on an online platform. Marianne Windsperger invited the filmmaker and co-founder of this project, Ohad Ufaz, and Stephen Naron, Director of the Fortunoff  Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, to talk about this documentation initiative. The German version of this interview has been published in a special issue of the journal Zwischenwelt. Literatur/Widerstand/Exil commemorating 7 October 2023.

Author Biographies

  • Ohad Ufaz

    Ohad Ufaz is co-founder and head of documentary and film in Edut 710, filmmaker, film scholar and chair of communication department at Oranim College in Kiryat Tiv'on in Israel. His dissertation entitled ‘Camera of Encounter. On the question of documenting and bearing the Other's testimony in film’ was defended at the Hebrew University in 2021. Since 1997, Ohad Ufaz has produced numerous films, including ‘The Boys from Lebanon’ (2008) and ‘Going Dutch’ (2002) and most recently ‘The Listener’ (together with Micha Livne), a film about Dori Laub.

  • Stephen Naron

    Stephen Naron is Director of the Fortunoff Archives for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University and Visiting Research Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI). His research interests include the history of testimony, archival methods and theories, and memory studies. Since August 2021, he has headed the European Outreach Office of the Fortunoff Archive at the VWI in Vienna.

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Published

2024-12-04

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 2 (2024): S:I.M.O.N. – SHOAH: INTERVENTION. METHODS. DOCUMENTATION.

Section

INTERVIEW

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How to Cite

“Edut710 – Documenting As an Act of Resistance: Stephen Naron and Ohad Ufaz  in Conversation With Marianne Windsperger (June July 2024)”. 2024. S: I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation. 11 (2): 122-30. https://doi.org/10.23777/sn.0224/con_ousn01.