Letters: Memories of the Holocaust

Re “Indelible voices,” Dec. 9

My late wife Carol was one of the first Holocaust survivors to have her story recorded for posterity by the Shoa Foundation. I can remember the event as if it were yesterday.

It was Aug. 8, 1994, and the crew came to our home to set up its equipment. Once they were finished, the crew members asked Carol if she was ready and then began the interview. Looking back, I can only reflect on how sensitive and respectful the Shoa Foundation’s people were.

They made sure she was comfortable and that no one besides her and the crew were present during her testimony. They taped a two-hour interview about Carol’s life that covered her prewar childhood, her time in two ghettos, her life in two slave-labor camps and her life after the war.

All this was done with dignity and compassion.

Norman Redlich

Woodland Hills

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