Marking the forty-fifth anniversary of the first videotaping of survivor testimony on video by the Holocaust Survivors Film Project, In the First Person is the first large-scale public exhibition of footage from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. In conjunction with this exhibit, the Fortunoff Archive is presenting a concert of its Songs from Testimonies project, featuring Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble & Sasha Lurje.

Songs from Testimonies is a musical research and performance project based on poems and songs recounted in interviews with survivors recorded at the Fortunoff Archive. This concert will feature songs that represent a wide diverse array of musical traditions, genres and languages, from instrumental Hasidic niggunim to Polish tango and Yiddish folksongs.