Thursday, June 7, 2007

Steps to conduct the interview

Start the video camera/audiotape.

Ask for these initial details:
1) Name
2) Age and Occupation
3) Current address
4) Pre-partition address
5) Religion

Start building up the story by asking the following questions:
6) How old were you during partition?
7) State personal account of pre-partition, partition and post-partition trauma.
8) State the accounts of relatives, friends and others you know about.
9) Any photographs/memoirs you would like to share.

If the following questions were not answered during 7) and 8), ask again:
10) What was your family’s occupation?
11) Wealth and property lost in partition
12) Number of family members lost in partition
13) Who engineered the partition and subsequent massacres?

Take 1-2 pictures of partition victim(s) for archives.

Get the contact info of other partition victims' families anywhere in the world.

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