Archival Storytelling, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER 10

The Power of Eyewitness Accounts: A Conversation with Roberta Grossman

On January 27, 2019, the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, producer/director/writer Roberta Grossman’s Who Will Write Our History was screened in 55 countries. Screening sites including UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris; the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.; the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, and hundreds of theaters, museums, and community centers.

This 94-minute documentary, based on historian Samuel Kassow’s Who Will Write Our History? (Indiana University Press, 2007), uses primary source print and audiovisual documentation to tell the story of a clandestine group ...