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The Library of Congress has launched an online collection of nearly 500 first-hand accounts from 9/11 responders to mark the 25th anniversary of the World Trade Center attack. Housed in the American Folklife Center, the collection includes 484 full-length video interviews conducted between April 2010 and September 2024, along with their corresponding transcripts, which document what responders witnessed, why they responded, what they endured, and how the experience affected their health, families and lives in the years that followed.
The collection finding aid contains a full inventory of the collection. Taken together, the interviews – which include responders, family members, advocates and medical personnel – preserve not only the memories of a historic event, but the testimony of witnesses whose lives became part of its continuing history. Making them available through the Library of Congress ensures that their testimony becomes part of the nation’s permanent memory.
The interviews are part of a project begun by Benjamin Luft, a physician at Stony Brook Medicine in New York, who treated responders in the years after the attacks. “I began these interviews because I realized that my patients were not simply people who had become ill after 9/11; they were witnesses to history,” said Luft, director of the Stony Brook WTC Wellness Program.
“They had seen extraordinary courage, loss, compassion and sacrifice, and they were living with the consequences years later. We wanted to preserve their accounts in their own voices, before time inevitably changed what the nation remembered. Twenty five years later, these interviews allow them to speak directly to future generations.” Researchers and the public can search the detailed online archive by responder names, hometowns, and occupations.
The site also features five thematic compilations of excerpts from multiple interviews, exploring “the day America was attacked,” “rescue, recovery and cleanup,” “development of diseases and loss,” “resiliency” and “family member perspectives,” as well as 42 additional compilations drawn from the full-length videos. This unique collection comes to the Library as the nation marks 25 years since the attacks, expanding the American Folklife Center’s documentation of Sept. 11 and ensuring responders’ experiences remain available to future generations.
“It is our responsibility and privilege to safeguard this history to help educate people about the lives of 9/11 responders,” said Nicole Saylor, director of the American Folklife Center. “Making these in-depth interviews available worldwide is a major milestone not only in our collection stewardship efforts but also in ensuring that the stories, lives, and collective memory of 9/11 responders remain accessible around the world.”
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