David P. Boder

Who was David P. Boder?

David Pablo Boder, was a professor of psychology at Illinois Institute of Technology when, in 1946, he traveled to Europe to record the experiences of Holocaust survivors. During that trip, he collected over a hundred interviews totaling 120 hours on a wire recorder developed by fellow professor Dr Marvin Camras. He was the first to record the experiences of the survivors and is a highly noted primary source reference. Recordings and transcriptions can be found at: http://voices.iit.edu .

Boder studied psychology in Leipzig and St. Petersburg before teaching in Mexico and, finally, the United States.