Documenting Genocide Survivors' Experiences: An Interview with Karen Jungblut

Abstract

"When you talk to survivors from the different [genocides], having talked to Holocaust survivors, Rwandan genocide survivors, and Cambodian genocide survivors, they all appreciate the effort of people documenting and hearing from them, who went through it, to hear what it was like. You see a commonality [in] how they think about this now and you see the importance of documenting each one and of people to have the opportunity to hear from them," Karen Jungblut recently summed up her thirteen years of working for the Shoah Foundation. Alexander Freund interviewed her in Berlin in May 2009 to learn about the work of the foundation that Steven Spielberg had established in 1994, after filming "Schindler's List" (the movie won seven Oscars).