About this Event
About the film
The Listener (directors: Ohad Ufaz, Micha Livne, producer: Micha Livne) revisits the groundbreaking work of psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, Dori Laub, who began recording the stories of other survivors in the late 1970s. His work led to the creation of the world’s first video testimony archive at Yale University, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, and shaped a unique therapeutic approach centered on presence, empathy, and witness.
The documentary film follows the final four years of Dori Laub’s life, interweaving powerful archival testimonies with intimate glimpses into his own story: childhood in Romanian camps, a love affair with the daughter of a former Nazi officer, and the moment his own children hear his testimony for the first time. His legacy echoes today in the work of Edut 710, a project inspired by Laub’s methods to document the voices of survivors of the October 7 Hamas massacre.
There will be a Q&A discussion following the film screening featuring Stephen Naron, Director of the Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale University, and chaired by Dan Stone, Director of the Holocaust Research Institute.
About the speakers
Stephen Naron has worked as an archivist/librarian since 2003, when he received his MSIS from the University of Texas, Austin. Stephen pursued a Magister in Jewish studies/history at the Freie Universitaet Berlin and the Zentrum fuer Antisemitismusforschung, TU. Stephen has worked with the Fortunoff Archive for more than 12 years, starting as an Archivist. Now, as director of the Fortunoff Archive, Stephen works within the wider research community to share access to our collection through the access site program, as well as writing and presenting on testimony for conferences, symposiums and class sessions inside and outside Yale.
Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of over 100 scholarly articles and some 25 books, including, most recently: The Holocaust: An Unfinished History (Penguin, 2023); Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust (OUP, 2023); Psychoanalysis, Historiography and the Nazi Camps: Accounting for Survival (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024); and volume 1 of The Cambridge History of the Holocaust (CUP, 2025; co-edited with Mark Roseman). His next book is a history of the Holocaust in Romania, to be published by Penguin in early 2027.
Dr Simone Gigliotti is Reader in Holocaust Studies in the Department of History and Deputy Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Wiener Holocaust Library, 29 Russell Square, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
