“There was a small piece of me that thought he might kill me, now that he knew I’m Jewish.”
London, England | July 24, 2006 | By MARILYN MILLSTONE

#1: Killing in the Fields | By BRYAN M. STEELE
#2: The Piles of Shoes | By VICKI KORCHAGIN

“Suddenly, I felt exhausted. How could I talk about this to a stranger, a citizen of the country that had nearly killed my mother?”
June 2007 | Piran, Slovenia | By ROZ LEISER

“In the everyday atmosphere of my childhood, I breathed a strange mixture of trust and mistrust, messages about Us and Them.”
Early 1990s | Northern California | By ELIZABETH ROSNER

“While on a death march, I picked grass in the fields when there was nothing else to eat.”
1945 | Mauthausen, Austria | By GEORGE G. HELLER

“I look at the crematorium with the smokestack, half expecting to see a wisp of gray coming out of it, and I think I might throw up.”
1975 | Weymouth Landing, Massachusetts | By ANNE JOYCE-BRANDT

“The German government will pay her reparations, but she will have nothing of the blood money…. It is insulting to imagine that the debt can ever be repaid.”
1956 to 1962 | Johannesburg, South Africa | By DOV FEDLER

“I look at the crematorium with the smokestack, half expecting to see a wisp of gray coming out of it, and I think I might throw up.”
April 2000 | Poland | By DEVORAH KLEIN

“We were some 40 kids trying to escape from the Nazis, who had taken over Austria on March 12, 1938.”
1938 to 1942 | Austria, the Netherlands, and England | By HANS KNIGHT

“I went to work in the bakery and was very happy there…. It took so little at that point to find pleasure in the day.”
1943 to 1945 | Poland and Germany | By LOUIS NEIBRIEF, as told to JEFF KATZ