O.36 - David Boder Collection: Testimonies of survivors in DP camps in Germany

O.36 - David Boder Collection: Testimonies of survivors in DP camps in Germany This record group is a collection of testimonies recorded by David Boder, a Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in DP camps in Europe in 1946. The collection is comprised of testimonies of Jews and non-Jews, recorded in various languages and translated into English. The testimonies focus on the events in the lives of the survivors during the war in the ghettos and camps, while serving in the military, in hiding and in children's homes. The testimonies also contain information regarding the rehabilitation of the survivors from immediately after the war until the time when the testimonies were given in the DP camps, the refugee houses or the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and Organization for Rehabilitation through Training (ORT) offices providing assistance to the refugees. David Boder published books and articles based on the testimonies: - "The Displaced People of Europe", Illinois Tech Engineer, Chicago, March 1947; - "I Did Not Interview the Dead", University Of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1949; - "The Impact of Catastrophe", University Of California, Los Angeles, 1954 - Published In the Journal of Psychology, no. 38, 1954; - "Nazi Science", the Chicago Jewish Forum, Vol. 1, No. 1; - "Topical Autobiographies Of Displaced People, Recorded Verbatim in Displaced Persons Camps, With A Psychological And Anthropological Analysis", Chicago- Los Angeles, D.P. C1950-c1957; - "Traumatic Inventory for the Assessment and Evaluation of Interviews with Displaced Persons", Los Angeles, California, 1954 Note: It is possible to listen to the recorded testimonies at the following website: http://voices.iit.edu/